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North Sydney Bears and Mounties could not be separated for the second time this season, battling it out for a 34-all entertaining affair.

Mounties scored two tries in the final four minutes, and Mitch Cornish locked up the scores on the fulltime buzzer with an outstanding conversion from out wide.

Cornish and Cody Walker stood out for their respective teams in a game that had twelve tries, a sin binning, a Latrell Schaumkel hatrick, and a controversial yet exciting final five minutes.

This match marked the return Kirisome Auva’a, who positively contributed by setting up two tries and scoring one himself.

Cornish threw a great pass for Gus Aiga to score the first try of the afternoon, and then were immediately gifted field position when the kickoff went out on the full. …show more content…

Walker dropped the ball off the kickoff and Mounties took full advantage through Stewart Mills, who was hit a hole after receiving a Cornish pass.

Mounties led 10-6 after 25 minutes and had been the dominant side, but they would concede 16 points before they would next touch the ball.

Auva’a put his stamp on the game when he made a powerful linebreak and fended off a defender in his 30-metre raid, before passing the ball off to Schaumkel to score his second try.

Off the kickoff set, Auva’a was in on the action again when he found some space down the left edge and got a magic ball to Walker who was steaming through. Walker darted away and passed the ball to Schaumkel who completed his hatrick after just 29 minutes.

Darren Nicholls scored their third consecutive try when he spun out of the defensive line to burst through and put the ball down.

Nicholls converted his own try to complete what was nothing less than a Bears rampage, and 22-10 was the halftime

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