Harvey Barron's first senior hat-trick inspires lowly Hull FC to a first win at the BrewDog Stadium in nine years as St Helens' season continues to unravel.

Harvey Barron's first senior hat-trick inspired lowly Hull FC to a first win at the BrewDog Stadium in nine years as St Helens' season continues to unravel. The 23-year-old wing struck twice before the interval and once after the break as Hull snapped a seven-match losing streak in Super League. The defeat leaves injury-depleted Saints, who have never failed to qualify for the Super League play-offs, looking like missing out in seventh place with five games remaining. After last week's loss at York Knights, a home defeat against the league's second bottom side was little short of calamitous. It was only Hull's second away win in Super League this season and moved them above Bradford Bulls into 12th place. It was fully deserved after a dominant second half that blew a fragile Saints away. St Helens, whose chairman Eamonn McManus confirmed before kick-off that the search for a successor to head coach Paul Rowley had been narrowed down to a "four or five-man" shortlist, took the lead inside two minutes through left wing Lewis Murphy. But Hull, without the injured Davy Litten, who has been linked with a move to Wakefield Trinity, hit back with Barron's first try. The visitors went close twice through the power of Herman Ese'ese but there was no denying wing Lewis Martin, back from a concussion issue that sidelined him for four weeks, who stepped inside Jack Welsby in the 25th minute to give the visitors the lead.