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Manly Sea Eagles secured their place in the 2015 VB NSW Cup finals campaign by completely blowing the Wentworthville Magpies away 58-16. Tom Symonds scored a double was inspirational for the Sea Eagles, while Jayden Hodges was at his creative best out of dummy half. Kurt Aldridge had a near perfect afternoon with the boot, kicking nine goals from ten attempts in the 42-point victory. The match began with both teams blowing their first opportunity on the attack, before Symonds palmed off a defender and burst through a hole after a wonderful show and go to open the scoring for the Sea Eagles. The Sea Eagles then dropped the ball off the kickoff, and the Magpies capitalised on the gifted field position when Beau Henry threw an incredibly short ball for Cody Nelson to …show more content…

The rest of the first half was incredibly poor for the Magpies, who were flat in defence and struggled to make any impact with the ball in hand. The Magpies defence fell for a second show-and-go in just the 32nd minute when Manaia Rudolph dummied and charged through a massive hole to increase the Sea Eagles lead to 18-10. Rudolph then threw a skillful cutout ball on the run just four minutes later to Berryman, who finished his second try of the afternoon. Tony Satini combined with David Williams to march 80 metres up field off the kickoff, which immediately placed the Sea Eagles on the attack. Hodges sold a ball out of dummy half, spun through a defender and planted the ball down to make the halftime score 28-10. The Magpies dominated the opening 15 minutes of the second term after the Sea Eagles dropped the ball on the first tackle of the half. James Tuitahi was just centimeters away from scoring an athletic try for the Magpies, before Williams pulled off an incredible try saving tackle to deny the visitors once

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