Lithgow Workies suffered a 12-tries-to-one shellacking at Wade Park.
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The Orange Hawks recorded a 64-4 win over an understrength Lithgow outfit, the victory bringing Workies' stunning winning run to an abrupt and emphatic end.
Jono Van Veen, Andrew Bain and Kyle Willmott were all sidelined due to suspensions they picked up from the week prior's win over defending premiers Bathurst Panthers, and Hawks took full advantage.
Particularly on their right edge.
With Hawks' captain-coach Willie Heta pulling the strings on that side Rakai Tuheke, Corey Brown and Jordan Baker ran riot, accounting for eight of Hawks' 12 tries.
Baker crossed for four of them and Tuheke one, while Brown picked up a hat-trick in what Heta labelled the lightning-quick centre's "best performance for Hawks by a long way".
The rout started in the in the opening minute when Alex Prout dived over, Duncan Young converting to give the two blues the earliest of 6-nil leads.
Baker crossed for a quick-fire double and Brown scored his first not long after, Duncan Young kicked one of the three attempts to extend Hawks' lead to 20-nil at just the 15-minute mark.
Matt Swift gave the Workies' crowd something to cheer about when he cut that gap to 16 but Hawks fired back immediately when Baker completed his first-half hat-trick not long before the half-time break.
Lawrence Fogg scored not long after the restart before Brown and Baker both found the line again, with Rakai Tuheke diving over straight away too.
Brown completed his hat-trick in the 70th minute before Matt Foliaki and Ethan Monk dived over in the dying stages to cap off the win.
Young converted five of those second half tries to finish the day with eight from 12, a decent effort from the sharp-shooting fullback.
- ORANGE HAWKS 64 (Jordan Baker 4, Corey Brown 3, Alex Prout, Lawrence Fogg, Rakai Tuheke, Matt Foliaki, Ethan Monk tries; Duncan Young 8 goals) def LITHGOW WORKIES 4 (Matt Swift try)