WA Schoolboys With Work To Do

[RugbyWA]

Western Australia’s Division 1 squad competing at the Australian Schools Championships in Brisbane will be hoping for a better slice of luck in coming matches after facing a rampant NSW II side in their opening encounter.

The New South Welshmen ran in 10 tries to nil on their way to posting a massive 71 points. It was a tough introduction for WA who graduated to the Division 1 Championships after being runners-up in Division 2 last year.

In other matches NSW I also started strongly with an eight try 55-13 victory over Victoria.

Queensland II kept the Combined States scoreless in their 28-0 win, while Queensland I, seeking their fifth-straight Australian Schools title, came out on top in a hard fought match against the ACT 31-15.

Play resumes at Ballymore on Thursday with Queensland taking on WA, NSW II facing ACT, NSW I tacking Combined States and Queensland II will wrap up the day’s play against Victoria.

DAY ONE RESULTS

Pool A:
NSW I 55 (Malietoa Hingano 2, Hugh Roach, Rhys Domkins, Sam Brisby, Greg Millar, Jed Holloway, Luke Keary tries, Keary con, Samuel Muller 3 cons, Jack Purcell con) def Victoria 13 (Jordan Schmidt try, Rennie Lautol con, Makesi Stowers 2 pens)

QLD II 28 (Lausii Taliauli 3, Tim Lollback tries, Dion Taumata 4 cons) def Combined States nil

POOL B:
NSW II 71 (Joel Luani 2, Jason Siege, Benn Melrose, Joel Gillespie, Ed Wylie, Samuel Ahofono, Boyd Killingworth, James Vaka, Stuart Dunbar tries, Dunbar 6 cons, 3 pens) def WA nil

QLD I 31 (Elisha Paulpe, Chris Sautia, Walter Pataia, Henry Taefu tries, Taefu 4 cons, pen) def ACT 15 (Lewis Holland, Billy Chalker tries, Chalker con, James Field pen)

Crowd 1,660

Day 2, Thursday 8 July
10.45am Qld 1 v WA (Pool B)
12.15pm NSW 2 v ACT (Pool A)
2pm NSW 1 v Combined States (Pool A)
3.30pm Qld 2 v Victoria (Pool B)

Day 3, Friday 9 July
1.15pm ACT v WA (Pool B)
2.45pm Combined States v Victoria (Pool A)
4.30pm Qld 2 v NSW 1 (Pool A)
6pm Qld 1 v NSW 2 (Pool B)

Finals Day, Sunday 11 July
9am Play off 1
9.45am Play off 2
11am Play off 3
12.30pm Championship Final
2.15pm Presentations


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[robyn <3]

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