Full back Lee Innes helped himself to a hat-trick of tries and eight conversions as West Bowling put Castleford Lock Lane to the Division One sword at the Bankfoot Oval.

Lock Lane took the lead for the first and only time when full back JP Briers slotted over a penalty, following a head-high tackle on prop Martin Hargreaves.

Bowling had to wait until the 13th minute

to open their account, when centre Tim Sutcliffe coasted on to a Steve Illingworth pass to dummy his way to the whitewash.

It was all one-way traffic from then on, Sutcliffe again breaking clear to draw the

visitors' defence and put Ryan Smith in for a classic wingman's try.

Innes scooted over when he joined the line from a scrum to race on to a short ball from centre Martin Tordoff - and the former BARLA international showed he had brought his kicking boots when he slotted over his fourth conversion after scrum half Illing-worth had back-tracked to spot a gap and race under the uprights.

With Bowling coasting 24-2 at the break, it was clearly a matter of how many the outclassed Castleford outfit were going to concede - and their cause looked doubly impossible when Innes spun out of three tackles to reach the chalk on the restart.

He completed a brilliantly-worked hat-trick when he came on the inside to collect a Peter Simpson off-load and the mayhem continued when Sutcliffe jumped high to catch a precision Illingworth kick to power over for his 31st try of the season.

Substitute Danny Ramsden came on to good effect to cross the whitewash after a blind- side dummy and the elusive Smith showed his pace with his second try in the corner, following a sweeping crossfield move.

Lock Lane were clearly desperate to hear the final hooter but it was left to the forwards to pile on the misery as packman Simon Speight crashed through from close range and his partner Ian Wormald ran straight and true from 20 metres to end the rout.

Bowling are still in the third promotion spot, level on 34 points along with Eastmoor Dragons and West Hull, and if they continue the form that has now seen them post five wins on the trot, a return to the Premier Division as champions is very much on the cards.