Lewis Murphy now has an excellent haul of 12 attempts in 6 successive matchesSt Helens (6) 18Tries: Davies 2, Bennison Goals: Makinson 3Wakefield (24) 34Tries: Murphy 4, Hall, Jowitt, Gaskell Goals: Gaskell 2, JowittSt Helens protected their 11th League Leaders’ Shield inspiteof suffering a house defeat by Wakefield Trinity. After choosing to play a much-changed, unskilled side consistingof 4 debutants following Friday’s loss at Wigan, Saints still endedup top thanks to the Warriors losing at Hull KR. Wakefield winger Lewis Murphy ran in 4 of Trinity’s 7 attempts. Corey Hall, Max Jowitt and ex-Saint Lee Gaskell crossed, while Ben Davies (two) and Jon Bennison responded for Saints. Wakefield’s win ended a run of 11 straight losses to St Helens, going back to April2018 While Saints extend their record to 11 titles in the 25-year history of Super League, it is their veryfirst because 2019, havingactually endedup behind Wigan in 2020, priorto then being sensationally edged out by Catalans a year earlier. Already without suspended duo Curtis Sironen and Morgan Knowles, and missingouton numerous gamers with injuries following Friday’s bruising derby defeat, Saints coach Kristian Woolf handed debuts to Ellis Archer and Rio Corkill and wingers Keane Gilford and Ben Lane simply a coupleof days after Saints were beaten 30-10 at Wigan. But their damaged line-up were no match for a Trinity side, who had Sid Adebiyi returning from injury for his
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