Super League round-up: St Helens thrash Wigan as Hull edge Salford

Salford 20-28 Hull FC

Marc Sneyd grabbed 12 points against his old club as Hull secured top spot in Super League with a 28-20 win over Salford.

But Salford made Hull fight all the way and led 20-18 until Sneyd went over for a try nine minutes from time.

Sneyd, who joined Hull from Salford last season, also kicked four goals from five attempts.

Hull led 12-6 at half-time with tries from Steve Michaels and Frank Pritchard, both converted by Sneyd.

The tries were sandwiched by a Michael Dobson effort for Salford with Gareth O'Brien landing a goal.

Salford turned in a battling second-half show with tries from Mason Caton-Brown, Niall Evalds and Robert Lui.

But Hull secured the win and top place at the end of the regular season with late tries from Sneyd and Mahe Fonua.

Wigan 4-23 St Helens

St Helens maintained their late-season resurgence with a 23-4 victory over Wigan in a fiercely-contested derby in front of a Super League season's-best crowd of 20,049 at the DW Stadium.

All but seven of the 27 points came in the first half when Keiron Cunningham's men took their chances to establish a 16-4 lead before demonstrating magnificent defence to keep their hosts scoreless for 70 minutes.

Both teams finished with 12 men after Wigan's former New Zealand international Frank Paul Nuuausala, on his home debut, and St Helens forward Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook were sin-binned for their part in an ugly free-for-all which could see further repercussions.

A fifth successive win enables Saints to draw level on points with fourth-placed Catalans Dragons while Wigan will drop to third going into the Super 8s if Warrington beat Huddersfield on Saturday.