Huddersfield, Castleford and Hull KR claim Friday victories

We round-up Friday's action in the Betfred Super League, including an emphatic victory for Hull Kingston Rovers and an upset from Huddersfield against the Catalans Dragons.... Huddersfield Giants 28-12 Catalans Dragons

It was four tries on the night for Huddersfield Giants as they claimed their fifth win in seven for the 2022 Super League campaign.

The victory moved them in front of Catalans Dragons into third, Owen Trout and Danny Levi responding to an early try from Samisoni Langi for the visitors.

Tom Davies ended the first half by crossing the line for Catalans, but the unconverted try still left the visitors trailing.

The Giants led 12-8 at the break, with Theo Fages and Josh Jones extending the home side's lead in the second half.

Joe Chan crossed the line for the Dragons in the second half, but it was not enough to fight back.

"I'm delighted," Giants head coach Ian Watson said. "It's a good result for us and we know that to be a top team we need to beat top teams."

The French side arrived late to the John Smith's Stadium, after a delayed flight from Perpignan set the kick-off time back to 8.20pm.

"I'm not going to use that as an excuse," Dragons head coach Steve McNamara said. "We just weren't quite good enough tonight.

"It was a high quality game with high completion rates and we just weren't good enough on the day."

Castleford Tigers finally got their second victory of the Super League season against a struggling Toulouse Olympique side.

Greg Eden opened the scoring for the home side, with Niall Evalds and Adam Milner running in against the French visitors before the break.

Jake Mamo and Liam Watts joined in the scoring for the Tigers in the second half, Tony Gigot only managing a late consolation for Toulouse.