Wakefield: (14) 28
Tries: Rooney, Atkins 2, White, Catic
Goals: Rooney 4

Harlequins: (4) 14
Tries: Hill, Wells, Smith
Goals: Orr

Wakefield boosted their play-off hopes with a hard-fought win over Harlequins to move up to fifth in the table.

Quins' Mark McLinden had a try ruled out controversially early on and Jamie Rooney, Ryan Atkins and Paul White made them pay with first-half scores.

Ned Catic and Atkins completed the win with tries in the second half.

Scott Hill had given Quins a fighting chance by scoring just before the break, but further scores from Jon Wells and Tyrone Smith were not enough.

"I think that as a defender the onus is on you to make the best attempt to make a tackle.

"It's almost just getting to the stages where players can just throw their hands in the air and say that someone's run across them.

"I'm not having a judgement on what went on here tonight I just think the attitude of the ruling needs to be looked at, that's my opinion over recent weeks."

"It was a tough game. If somebody was going to say to me before the game that we'd win 28-14 and that we'd put a performance like that up I'd say 'thank you very much'.

"It allows us to progress to the next game against Hull on Friday.

"But I was absolutely delighted that we came out with a plan, we stuck to the plan, we remained composed throughout and we played some really good rugby league as well."

Wakefield: Blaymire, Fox, Demetriou, Atkins, White, Rooney, Jeffries, Watene, D. March, Bibey, Elima, Ferres, Henderson. Replacements: Catic, P. March, Moore, Gleeson.

Harlequins: McLinden, Wells, Sykes, T. Smith, R. Sheriffe, Hill, Orr, Temata, Randall, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Gafa, Purdham, Paul. Replacements: Rinaldi, Hopkins, Grayshon, Mbu.

Referee: R Silverwood (Dewsbury)