Leigh Centurions 38 Featherstone Rovers 17

WITH a perfect sense of timing the Centurions re-discovered their top form and Neil Turley produced a one-man demolition job writes Mike Hulme

Great Britain coach David Waite watched appreciatively from the stand as Leigh showed why they are the stand-out team in the NFP and why Turley is on the brink of major international honours.

With Waite due to announce his England team for next month's clash with Wales later today, Turley followed up his try-scoring Lancashire debut with a five-try blast that saw him smash yet another record in a record-breaking season.

Record

Yesterday's five touchdowns saw him pass the previous Leigh record of 49 tries in a season, set in 1985-86 by Aussie centre Steve Halliwell. Turley now has 51 and with a minimum of three games to play, the odds are that he will extend it even further.

While Turley took the scoring honours, it will be Leigh's all-round team effort that will please them most. Against a side battling for a top four finish, Leigh were unstoppable in the second half.

They had a real battle on their hands in the first half. Although they kept their tryline intact, five Jamie Rooney penalties nosed Rovers into a 10-8 interval lead.

Leigh had managed the only try of the half when Simon Svabic's clever cross-kick was fumbled and Turley swooped for the first of his five.

Leigh finished the half down to 12 with Paul Anderson sin-binned and on report for a late challenge that flattened Rooney.

A storming start to the second half put Leigh on the way to a sweet victory. Andy Fairclough's thrust for the line set up the position for Turley to cross for his second and within seven minutes Turley had completed his hat-trick, Svabic had landed the fourth of six goals and Leigh were 20-11 up.

Even when Gavin Morgan clattered his way through to pull Rovers back to 20-17, there was no hint of panic. Leigh simply stepped up the pace and blew Featherstone away with three more tries in the final 20 minutes, two from Turley and one from sub Andy Johnson.

Leigh: Turley; Hadcroft, Anderson, Fairclough, Watts; Svabic, Bretherton; Leathem, Hamilton, Bradbury, Baldwin, Morley, Bristow. Subs: Street, Ingram, Johnson, Norman.

Tetley's Bitter Super League: Salford 18 Castleford 26, Bradford 52 Wakefield 10, Halifax 26 Hull 27, Huddersfield 22 London 22.

Northern Ford Premiership: Barrow 50 Batley12, Chorley 10 Dewsbury 50, Doncaster 22 Rochdale 34, Keighley 16 Oldham 26, Leigh 38 Featherston 17, Sheffield 34 Workington 26, Swinton 30 Hunslet 20, Whitehaven 52 Gateshead 22, York 11 Widnes 66.