The North Sydney Bears went down to the Wyong Roos 18-16 in a game that saw a scoreless second half thanks to some inspirational defensive efforts from both sides. The Roos flew out of the blocks early to an 18-0 lead after just 15 minutes, before the Bears clawed back with 16 unanswered points just before halftime. Heavy and constant rain caused poor ball control by both sides for the entire 80 minutes, in a match that was separated only by a Tyler Cornish conversion. The two sides has polarizing opening sets to the game, with a Leivaha Pulu try coming off the back of a Cody Walker bomb that went out on the full. Pulu was put over by a lovely Cornish short ball, which meant the Roos were up 6-0 inside the opening two minutes. Scott Sorensen was standing in an offside position at marker in the 7th minute, and therefore did not make a play at Matt McIlwrick, …show more content…
Willie Manu thought he had a try after Cornish threw him an inside ball off the scrum and he crashed over, but the pass was ruled to have gone forward. The Bears were losing the battle of field position at this stage of the game, and giving away back-to-back penalties certainly did not help their cause. Cornish grubbered into the in-goal area in the 15th minute and showed tremendous speed to win the race and score off his own kick to increase the Roos lead to 18-0. Angus Crichton made a huge run towards the goal posts and was pulled down just short of the line, before he dropped the ball in the act of scoring just five minutes later. The Roos immediately found themselves back on the attack after the Crichton mistake and received a penalty in goal-kicking range. They opted for the two points but Cornish missed to the right. The Bears finally opened their account in the 28th minute when Cody Walker dummied to the left and burst through a hole to decrease the deficit to
After the fake punt was unsuccessful, the Eagles' offense got the ball back on the Browns' 35-yard line and this time, Sturgis converted a 22-yard field goal, putting Philadelphia up
Newark Catholic won the toss and as they seem to do all the time, elected to take the ball. On the drive the Green Wave needed just six plays to go fifty-two-yards, to make this a,7-0 game. The drive ended when speedster Cameron Lewis going the final ten-yards. The point after kick by on again off again by senior kicker,Nathan Liesen
Into the third quarter, Linebacker Lang Evans came up with the biggest play of the game, an interception leaving Turpin at the Redskin six yard line. On the next snap, Turpin’s Nathan Hooper scores a 6 yd run touchdown, breaking the tie. With a successful Turpin field goal from kicker Harry Sand and unsuccessful kick from Anderson, 3rd quarter ended in 31-21.
The Vikings had the ball with 1:42 left and at their 39-yard line and helped with a pass interference penalty on Kam Chancellor, went into the Seahawks area. After eating up the clock for a certain win, Walsh missed the winning point
Facing a 4th and five with 4:47 left in the third quarter,the Indians elected to go for it. Jack Beeler was sacked for an 12-yard loss by #8 Marcus Jones. The Cougars carried that momentum with them on the ensuing drive. It tool 8-plays to cover the 49-yards for the score, with the score coming in the shape of a 4-yard run from Bailey. The point after kick locked this one up once again, at 14 apiece with 1:22 left in the quarter.
The Cutters dominated the following ten minutes, with Fraser Alcock being held up and Adam Clune building pressure through forced dropouts.
St Marys needed to be next to score, and that’s exactly what they did when Cameron Collins sold a huge dummy to his left, which fooled the markers and allowed him to dive straight over.
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.
Hughson looked to push their momentum in the second half putting up four goals as Morgan Ehlers would put up two points,then Jessie Lawrence would put up one point and lastly Iliana Gonzalez would put up the last point of the game for Hughson.While Maddison Kenburg would only put one up for Escalon.Making the final score 5-2.
They were up by six points, and a penalty goal would have stretched the lead out to a score that Queensland simply could not reach.
after a seven-yard run by, Drew Harris. With the crowd anticipating a Tigers score after the next snap, but the snap was horrible and resulted with a sack on quarterback for a thirteen-yard loss, with 10:57 left in the contest.A incomplete pass on fourth down ended the drive and scoring hopes of the Tigers. There was a lot of contact on the receiver in the endzone but nothing was called. One guy setting behind me, who was there as a fan of the game and not a fan of either team said wow, that was not called. I, myself thought the flag was going to be thrown too but the ref did not see it that way.
The first half of the game was uncharacteristic as the Tigers expected to come away with a win but had some trouble against the Cumberland defense.
The point extra was missed and this one was locked up, with a little over 7:00 left.
Gregorius immediately made amends with a powerful 40-metre kick return, which led to a John Olive try in the left corner after a Cody Walker cutout ball fractured the Bulldogs defence and created an
Australia made amends four minutes later when Samuel Umtiti displayed a moment of madness when he raised his hands and palmed the ball away during Aaron Mooy’s delivery off a free-kick. It was then the Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak who levelled the score, restoring confidence among his teammates.