LEIGH huffed and puffed their way through the opening hour of a Good Friday at Hunslet before turning the contest on its head with seven tries in the last 20 minutes.

Martin Aspinwall cut through the middle of the home defence before putting in skipper Oliver Wilkes for the opening score on 37 minutes.

The try was converted by Martyn Ridyard but Centurions had to settle for a slender 6-0 advantage at half time.

Hunslet started the second half positively, with former Featherstone man Andy Kain showing some nice touches.

Kain was instrumental in the equalising try, finding Luke Briscoe with a slide-rule kick that he dived on to get the home side on the score board. Simon Brown converted to tie things up.

Leigh were then guilty of butchering a fine chance when Gregg McNally sliced through in his 100th game but Andrew Dixon spilled the inside pass.

But they then rose to the challenge to blitz Hunslet with a devastating final flurry.

Bob Beswick kicked it off by breaking their lines before laying off for Aspinwall so score and Ridyard’s conversion restored Leigh’s six-point advantage.

The stand-off then combined with McNally for the full-back to get Liam Kay in at the corner.

Hunslet began to haemorrhage penalties and after referee Chris Kendall gave a team warning, Kain was sinbinned for holding down.

This completed the momentum swing as Leigh scored three tries in his absence.

Sean Penkywicz was thrown into the action in the last quarter and immediately began to speed things up for the Centurions.

Sam Barlow took advantage of a Penkywicz pass to charge under the posts with Ridyard's third goal making it 22-6.

Ryan Brierley then kicked for Johnny Pownall's sixth try of the season and Leigh drove into range again for Penkywicz to claim an individual try from dummy half.

Another Penkywicz break had the Hawks going backwards before an opportunist kick from the hooker took a fortunate rebound off Hawks full-back Jimmy Watson and Dixon scored after 78 minutes.

With time ticking down, Kay struck for his second try following a kick from McNally and although Ridyard could not add to his five goals, Leigh had completed their second-half transformation.

Leigh Centurions: Gregg McNally, Johnny Pownall, Greg Worthington, Tom Armstrong, Liam Kay, Martyn Ridyard, Ryan Brierley, Fuifui Moimoi, Bob Beswick, Tom Spencer, Kurt Haggerty, Andrew Dixon, Sam Barlow. Replacements: Oliver Wilkes, Sean Penkywicz, Martin Aspinwall, Jonathan Walker

Referee: C Kendall

Attendance: 1,122