WIDNES Vikings remain undefeated by Warrington Wolves on their i-pitch at Easter time after Thursday night's 30-10 success.

While Wolves fell to their third Super League defeat in a row, Vikings gained their third home win of the campaign at the Select Security Stadium tonight.

Although Wolves took a 6-0 lead with a try from Ben Westwood, Vikings took a 14-6 interval advantage with two tries from Stefan Marsh and another from Cameron Phelps.

Scores from Lloyd White and Kevin Brown stretched Vikings’ cushion to 26-6 before Ben Currie bagged Warrington’s second try with 14 minutes remaining while Danny Tickle repeated Westwood’s trick of spending time in the sin bin.

Denis Betts’ men deserved their victory, more enthusiastic in defence and had the man running the show in skipper Kevin Brown, returning from hamstring injury.

Wolves opened the scoring in the sixth minute.

Joel Monaghan palmed back the ball from Gareth O’Brien’s kick and Ben Westwood was in position to pick up the pieces.

A fan in the Warrington supporters’ end of the ground threw a flare onto the pitch in celebration, preventing O’Brien from taking his conversion attempt.

Referee Robert Hicks took the players away from the danger zone, Wolves’ men electing for training drills at the other end while the Vikings players returned to the changing rooms.

After a five minutes delay, O’Brien’s boot put Wolves 6-0 in front and a Vikings response was swift.

In fact, all the threats came from the black and whites from then on.

Marsh was set free down the right and although he was stopped 10 metres short, swift hands to the left through Joe Mellor, Brown and Rhys Hansbury put Phelps over in the corner.

Hanbury made a hash of a break down the left when he failed to use the supporting teammates and was caught by Kevin Penny.

But from the play-the-ball Brown kicked across the field behind the Warrington defence and the ball fell perfectly for Marsh to pounce. Jack Owens added the conversion to put Widnes 10-6 ahead after 23 minutes.

Wolves had to reshuffle when Matty Russell was carried off, with Ryan Atkins switching to the wing, Ben Currie going into the centres and James Laithwaite entering the game in the back row.

Warrington changed about again, with Penny going to the wing outside Atkins, Currie going to right centre, Bridge to stand off and Ratchford to full back.

Despite the disruption, Warrington had the next scoring chance when a long pass from Atkins looked to have put Penny into acres of space but the flyer seemed to stumble short of the line as Marsh got across to cover.

Vikings were then forced into changes, Phelps leaving the field in a groggy state and Matt Whitley joining play for his debut.

Three minutes before half time Marsh charged over in the right corner from a stunning Hanbury long pass after Widnes regained possession from Monaghan’s knock on.

Jack Owens missed a 44-metre penalty attempt with the last kick of a 54-minute half.

Owens was at the heart of Vikings’ try at the start of the second half though, flying down the wing from a smart long pass by Brown which set up position for White to scoot over from dummy half.

With Owens converting from wide out, Vikings’ lead was extended to 20-6.

Atkins lost possession attempting to get his arm free on the Vikings try line as a Wolves chance to respond went begging.

And it got worse for Warrington when Westwood was sent to the sin bin for use of the knees, Widnes rubbing in the salt when Brown crossed from a Hanbury pass and Owens converted.

A tackle that left Daryl Clark floored resulted in Danny Tickle being sin-binned with 16 minutes remaining.

Wolves made Vikings pay, with Stefan Ratchford’s weaving run cutting up Vikings and then Bridge got the ball out wide for Currie to angle his way over. No goal success from O’Brien though left Wolves 16 points adrift with 14 minutes remaining.

It proved to be nothing more than a consolation for Wolves as Vikings not only did a good job in closing the game out but came up with the final try from Owens in the left corner with two minutes remaining.

Wolves: Kevin Penny, Joel Monaghan, Chris Bridge, Ryan Atkins, Matty Russell; Stefan Ratchford, Gareth O’Brien; Chris Hill, Ashton Sims, Ben Currie, Ben Westwood, Ben Harrison. Subs: Daryl Clark, Roy Asotasi, Anthony England, James Laithwaite.

Vikings: Rhys Hanbury; Stefan Marsh, Chris Dean, Cameron Phelps, Jack Owens; Kevin Brown, Joe Mellor; Gil Dudson, Lloyd White, Eamon O’Carroll, Danny Tickle, Danny Galea, Macgraff Leuluai. Subs: Alex Gerrard, Aaron Heremaia, Manase Manuokafoa, Matt Whitley.

Attendance: 7,768