U20 National Youth Holden Cup - Round 18

BYE

Other U20 Matches

30-12 Parr Parramatta   b Syd Roosters
20-20 StAu Canterbury   d Wests-Tig
34-34 Penr Penrith      d Cronulla
18-12 Bruc Canberra     b Nth Qld

20-14 Leic Syd Roosters b Wests-Tig (Postponed Match)

               W D  L B Diff PT
PENRITH       13 1  1 2 +424 31 **
PARRAMATTA    11 -  5 2  +72 26
NTH QLD       11 1  5 1 +160 25
ST GEO-ILL    10 1  5 2 +143 25
CRONULLA       9 1  6 2  +49 23
SYD ROOSTERS  10 -  6 2  +39 24
WESTS-TIGERS   9 2  6 1  +96 22
NEWCASTLE      8 1  7 2  -71 21
Brisbane       7 -  9 2  +26 18
Warriors       7 -  9 2 -136 18
Canberra       8 -  9 1 -182 18
Gold Coast     6 - 10 2  -69 16
Melbourne      5 - 10 2  -16 14 **
Souths         5 - 11 2 -138 14
Canterbury     5 1 11 1  -98 13
Manly          1 - 15 2 -299  6

** Postponed

Club Championship

               W D  L B Diff PT
CRONULLA      23 1  8 4 +214 55
Penrith       20 1 10 4 +388 49 **
Nth Qld       22 1 11 2 +333 49
St Geo-Ill    18 1 13 4  +18 45
Melbourne     18 - 13 4 +200 44 **
Canberra      18 1 15 2 -100 41
Brisbane      16 - 16 4 +105 40
Parramatta    21 - 11 4 +127 38 ++
Warriors      15 - 17 4 -152 38
Canterbury    16 1 17 2  +11 37
Wests-Tigers  16 2 16 2   +9 37
Syd Roosters  13 - 19 4  -75 34
Gold Coast    13 - 19 4  -92 34
Souths        10 - 22 4 -200 28
Newcastle      9 2 21 4 -416 28
Manly          6 - 26 4 -368 20

Reserve Grade - Intrust Super NSW Premiership - Round 17

v Penrith, North Sydney Oval, Sat Jul 9 3:00pm

LOSS 22-34

LAte Changes - Cottrell and Dokinvalau are out. Crichton starts second row, George Burgess on the bench.

Penrith have put the disappointment of last week’s shock loss to lowly Wentworthville behind them, holding-off a fast finishing North Sydney Bears to record an invaluable 34-22 win at North Sydney Oval this afternoon. The Panthers led by the surprise inclusion of Tyrone Peachey and the ever-improving powerhouse front-rower Viliame Kikau, took advantage of early ill-discipline and numerous errors from the home side to open up a 22-0 lead. But despite a second half comeback from the Bears, they were just unable to peg back that early lead before a late 85 metre try to Josh Hall sealed the win for the Mountain Men. In fact, apart from two tries, Hall also bagged five goals from six attempts for a personal haul of 18 points, which once again shows why the former AFL player is considered a strong chance to finish the season as the competition’s top points scorer having already amassed 132 points to date. An error in the opening set, enabled Penrith to apply early pressure and open the scoring though Kikau in just the 6th minute when the prop stormed his way through the Bears goal-line defence to score from close range. The Bears having not seen any possession after their opening set error, trailed by 12 two minutes later when Kikau turned provider, with a strong run that had the North Sydney defence at sixers and sevens before providing a peach of an offload to Peachey. Fullback Andrew Heffernan, playing in his first game since Round 11, laid on Penrith’s third try inside the opening 20 minutes of the game with a cut-out pass for Hall to score in the corner before the fullback joined the score-sheet seven minutes courtesy of a well-weighted grubber from Peachey into the Bears in-goal ad at 22-0 the score could have been anything for Penrith. The Bears having made several errors and conceded the opening five penalties finally received one of their own just before the half-hour mark and it had instant effect with the home side scoring back-to-back tries to reduce the gap to ten with half-time closing in. The first try came when Dane Nielsen finished off a neat shift left, with a powerful burst to score in the left corner, converted in spectacular fashion from half Eli Levido. Minutes later a powerful run from interchange forward George Burgess, playing in his first game back from injury, stretched the Panthers defence that allowed hooker Bradley Deitz to capitalise on, burrowing his way over from the play the ball to score. But just as the Bears were beginning to gain ascendency, the Panthers scored with the last play of the half to push the score out to 28-12 after Zach Dockar-Clay’s burst through the middle from 30 metres out enabled Malakai Watene-Zelezniak to score behind the posts. If it was all Penrith in the first half, it was almost certainly all North Sydney in the second half as the Bears returned out onto the field with much greater intensity. They were rewarded with an early second half try when Nielsen scored his second for the game, finishing off a well-worked movement off a scrum win 10m out from the Panthers line, to reduce the lead to twelve. The Panthers having played a virtually error-free first half, were suddenly making mistakes at will throughout the second half, inviting the Bears to continue their comeback, which they did when a 40-20 kick in the 65th minute enabled North Sydney to score from the ensuing set. Centre Latrell Robinson shrugged off some feeble outside defence to score out wide and with another Levido conversion from just inside the sideline, the Bears were right back in the game trailing 28-22 but had all the momentum. The Bears continued to dominate possession and territory and looked likely to score after forcing an error from Peachey coming of his own line, a loose pass was swooped upon by Hall to streak 85 metres and score the only points of the second half for the visitors, breaking the hearts of the home crowd in the process.

 6 min  0-6
 8 min  0-12
16 min  0-16
23 min  0-22
29 min  6-22
34 min 12-22
38 min 12-28
48 min 16-28
64 min 22-28
76 min 22-34

Neilsen 2, Dietz, Robinson tries
Levido 3 from 4 goals

                            Min  T  G/A  FG
Flbk - Cook, Damien          80  -  -     -
Wing - Neilsen, Dane         80  2  -     -
Cntr - Robinson, Latrell     80  1  -     -
Cntr - Murphy, Ed            80  -  -     - (c)
Wing - Miski, Abbas          80  -  -     -
5/8  - Moceidreke, Sitiveni  80  -  -     -
Half - Levido, Eli           80  -  3/4   -
Prop - Greinke, Brett        45  -  -     -
Hook - Deitz, Brad           80  1  -     -
Prop - Rogers, Piki          65  -  -     -
SRow - Crichton, Angus       48  -  -     -
SRow - Siolo, Patrice        80  -  -     -
Lock - Williams, Clayton     57  -  -     -

Int  - Hunt, Jamel           23  -  -     -
Int  - Mauala, Fred Jnr      54  -  -     -
Int  - Coleman, Liam          3  -  -     -
Int  - Burgess, George       25  -  -     -

                                 4  3/4   -

Other NSW Premiership Matches

12-8  MSm2 Warriors         b Illawarra
33-22 Aubr Mt Pritchard     b Newcastle
16-12 Hens Wyong            b Newtown
34-26 Brok Wentworthville   b Manly
28-6  StAu Wests-Tigers     b Canterbury

                W D  L B Diff PT
MT PRITCHARD   12 -  3 2 +116 28 **
ILLAWARRA      11 -  5 2 +133 26
WARRIORS       11 -  5 2  +79 26
PENRITH         9 -  6 3 +130 24
WESTS-TIGERS   10 -  6 2  +36 24
NEWTOWN         8 1  6 3  +50 23
WYONG           8 -  8 2  +52 20
NORTHS          7 -  8 3  -37 20
Canterbury      6 1  9 2  -31 17 **
Wentworthville  6 - 10 2 -122 16
Manly           4 - 11 2 -141 12 **
Newcastle       1 - 14 2 -265  6 **