PROMOTED Featherstone started their National League One campaign in great style with Friday's 28-6 win over Whitehaven at the Chris Moyles Stadium.
Rovers defied atrocious conditions to run in six tries and they defended superbly to limit Whitehaven to a solitary touchdown.
Loose-forward Tommy Haughey was the show-stealer with a hat-trick of tries which included two in the first ten minutes.
F
eatherstone won the match by building a 16-0 interval lead when they were playing up the slope and facing a howling wind in the first-half.
They never looked like relinquishing their grip as conditions deteriorated in the second-half when Whitehaven had a snow blizzard in their faces.
Whitehaven paid dear for poor discipiline. They had a 13-8 penalty count against them and had Craig Calvert and Ryan NcDonald sin-binned for throwing punches.
Ex-Featherstone winger Ade Adebisi scored Whitehaven's only try in the 64th minute when they game was beyond them at 24-0 down.
Featherstone's other try scorers were Lee Lingard, Paul Handforth and Richard Blakeway. Stuart Dickens kicked two goals.
Featherstone Rovers: Wildbore; Pryce, Saxton, McHugh, Lingard; Kain, Handforth; A Tonks, McLocklan, Dickens, Field, Dooler, Haughey. Substitutes: Eadie, Houston, I Tonks, Blakeway.
Whitehaven: Broadbent; Calvert, Jackson, Eilbeck, Adebisi; Joe, Finch; McDonald, Mattinson, Edmondson, Miller, Fletcher, Rudd. Substitutes: Sice, McAvoy, Hill, Fatialofa.
Referee: Jamie Leahy (Dewsbury).
Attendance: 1,069.
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