A Tom Beech penalty the only score of a very scrappy first half littered with mistakes and penalties. Widnes very unlucky not to score however as Liam Lawton could not take a Ste Curphey pass in the only real chance of a poor opening 40 minutes.

Whitchurch came out firing in the second half as Widnes again would invite the away side back into the game. The seconds losing possession and giving away a penalty to allow them in to their 22; their winger beating a covering Joe Purcell to a kick to score.

Whitchurch taking a 7 - 3 lead sparked the Wids into life. Josh Salter getting the first of 3 second half Widnes tries, getting on the end of a backs move involving Argent, Curphey and Lawton to score.

Salter then turned provider as Widnes again built pressure in the Whitchurch half, the young fullback providing the final pass to allow Joe Purcell to dive over in the corner.

Liam Lawton rounded off the scoring, backing up well from Ste Curphey who made a break and drew fullback to put him over. Tom Beech hit his second conversion to leave a final score of 20 points to 7.

Head coach Dan Newall spoke after the game, 'Today was extremely frustrating for us, we may have got the win and the second half was much improved but we have all come off the pitch frustrated with the game.

We made life difficult for ourselves when we didn't need to. We spoke about our discipline before the game and it was absolutely shocking. We spoke about what we needed to do with the ball and we went away from the game plan and made far too many mistakes and struggled to get good service to Josh Argent at 10.

We put the pressure on ourselves we just need to cut out the mistakes and if we do make them back our defence instead of trying to force things and give stupid, needless penalties away.

Having said that my messages to the boys after the game was for us to play badly and still be convincing winners shows we are a quality side so we just need to touch up on those key areas.

We have a week off next week which I think will do us well so its two really big weeks of training before a tough away trip to New Brighton.'