Winger Tom Lineham scored two intercept tries in an eye-catching hat-trick as Hull FC beat Widnes 22-8 to make it back-to-back Super League wins for the first time since last June.
Lineham scored a treble in a losing cause at Castleford last month but his efforts on Friday night settled a drab contest at the KC Stadium.
The 22-year-old showed good opportunism and no little speed on two occasions to pluck passes out of the air and race over 90 metres to add to his early opener.
The hat-trick puts him out in front as Super League's most prolific finisher in 2015.
Jamie Shaul went over late on to make sure of the two competition points for Hull, with tries from Kevin Brown and Patrick Ah Van unable to prevent Widnes from falling to a fifth away defeat out of five.
It was a third match in nine days for both sides, although Widnes had reason to feel more hard done by after their Easter Monday trip to Catalans.
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