In a frantic opening, Robins new boy Jared Waerea-Hargreaves thought he had pressured himself over the road however, following a captain’s problem, was deemed to have knocked on earlier than touching the ball down.
Hull KR winger Burgess, who had dropped the ball in an analogous place moments earlier than, opened the scoring after 17 minutes when he dived in on the nook following good work from Lewis.
Castleford didn’t drop their heads, nonetheless, and after some glorious defending from Niall Evalds had momentarily saved them out, a wonderful dummy from Tex Hoy allowed Simms to dive in on the right-hand nook.
Shortly after, Rooney slalomed previous two challenges to attain beautifully to the appropriate of the posts to present the guests a deserved six-point lead after Hoy had added the extras.
Hoy prolonged the guests’ lead with a penalty kick, however Hiku’s glorious end within the nook pulled the rating again to 12-8 at half-time.
Glorious scrambling defence from the guests denied the house facet till the sixty fourth minute when Lewis discovered a yard of house to search out Burgess to acrobatically rating his second attempt of the match.
Rhyse Martin’s glorious kick from the touchline gave the hosts the lead they craved, and after Burgess’ third attempt of the evening, a carbon copy of his second, it appeared just like the win was safe.
Again got here the tireless Tigers, who confirmed they are going to be robust opposition for anyone this season regardless of final week’s Problem Cup exit at Bradford Bulls, and new signing Cini collected Hoy’s up-and-under to stage the scores and pressure the match into extra-time earlier than Lewis’ match-winning second.
