LEIGH Centurions ruthlessly pulled away from Featherstone Rovers with a blistering second-half display to remain unbeaten at the top of the Kingstone Press Championship.

Paul Rowley's side have now won 15 consecutive matches, including the final 10 of the last campaign and first five of this season.

The points looked less than assured after the opening 40 minutes, though, when Leigh were given a stern test by their hosts in what was a replay of October's Grand Final.

Centurions went in front in the ninth minute when swift hands out to the left saw Tom Armstrong put Liam Kay over at the corner.

But Martyn Ridyard missed the goal and Featherstone got on the front foot with quick play around the middle of the field and some determined work by their forwards.

Rovers eventually took advantage after 29 minutes thanks to a thunderous midfield break from Andrew Bostock.

With the Leigh defence still retreating, Australian Sam Irwin fired his pass down the right and Nathan Chappell swept in for Paul Sykes to convert.

If the hosts had just edged the first half, Leigh flipped the game on its head in the second to score seven tries.

The first came on 45 minutes when a long kick forward from Ridyard was fumbled and Armstrong followed up to go over the line.

Ridyard then seared through the middle of the defence before cleverly switching play to the right and Tommy Goulden finished off the move.

Centurions' Kurt Haggerty was held up over the line thanks to a fine tackle from Will Sharp, but it was only delaying the inevitable.

Haggerty again broke Rovers' resolve, diving in from dummy half to open the floodgates.

Armstrong went over for his second try before the score of the game from Michael Platt. Fuifui Moimoi blasted through the middle from halfway, cleverly linking with Goulden who flicked the ball back to Ryan Brierley for the Leigh half-back to find Platt for his first try of the season.

Ridyard struck his fourth and final goal to move the score to 32-6, but there was more to come from the Centurions with two tries in the last three minutes.

Liam Kay scored the first, crashing through the cover for his 10th try of the season before Brierley ran in an interception from almost 90 metres.

Leigh Centurions: McNally, Pownall, Platt, Armstrong, Kay; Ridyard, Brierley; Moimoi, Penkywicz, Acton, Haggerty, Goulden, Barlow. Subs: Beswick, Wilkes, Hopkins, Emmitt.

Referee: C Leatherbarrow.

Attendance: 2,695.