Wakefield Trinity walked away from the LNER Community Stadium with a 50-6 victory over York Knights.
On a career day for the flying Lachlan Walmsley, he bagged four tries to bring up 100 touchdowns in his career.
The start to the game saw York on the front foot for the opening 10 minutes with the home side peppering the Trinity try line but Wakefield’s defence held firm holding York at bay.
The ferocious defence was rewarded shortly after. Knights fullback, Joe Brown fumbled the ball at dummy half gifting Jack Croft the chance to pick up the ball and despite being brought down the young centre squeezed the ball backwards for Walmsley to scoop up and dive over.
A quickfire double saw Wakefield 12-0 ahead as Max Jowitt found Walmsley out wide with a cut out ball before a trademark finish from the Scottish international.
Ky Rodwell opened his try scoring account in the Red, White and Blue with an unbelievable 50 metre effort which included a dummy to fool the York fullback and a touchdown under the posts.
Further Trinity dominance followed as Luke Gale put Josh Griffin through a gap to crash over before Mathieu Cozza dived over to put Wakefield 30-0 up.
Before the break there was time for the Knights to get on the scoreboard. Ata Hingano kicked behind the Wakefield defence and Connor Bailey was fastest to the ball to dot down.
Similar to the first half, the second 40 started with York having chances to close the gap but Wakefield holding firm in response.
Around the hour mark, Walmsley completed his hat-trick and opened the gates for Wakefield to tack on more points in quick fashion.
Gale and Jowitt both finished off flowing breaks that saw the score inflate before Walmsley rounded things off with his fourth try of the game to bring up the 50 for Trinity.
Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt, Olpherts, Thornley, Croft, Walmsley, Gale, Lino, Bowden, Hood, Rodwell, Ashurst, Griffin, Cozza
Trinity Interchanges: Kay, Uele, Vagana, Smith
Trinity Tries: Walmsley (4), Rodwell, Griffin, Cozza, Gale, Jowitt
Trinity Conversions: Jowitt (7/9)
York Knights: Brown, Towse, Harrison, Bailey, Lineham, Hingano, Daley, Ta’ai, Jubb, Gannon, Field, Reynolds, Thompson
Knights Interchanges: Fitzsimmons, Teanby, Michael, Pemberton
Knights Tries: Bailey
Knights Conversions: Harrison (1/1)