EAST
COAST TIGERS 28
Tries: John
Wilshere, Marcus Jensen, Scott Sipple, Ricky Taylor,
Scott Thorburn
Goals: John
Wilshere 4
Team: 1. Wade
Liddell,
2. Aseri Laing, 3. Martin Allen, 4. Jason Bulgarelli,
5. John Wilshere, 6. Rob Thompson (c), 7. Scott
Thorburn,
8. Chris Nahi, 9. Mark Mom, 10. Graham Cotter,
11. Ricky Taylor, 12. Marcus Jensen, 13. Scott Sipple. Interchange: 14.
Matt Ross, 15. Jeff Doyle, 16. Clinton Peters, 17. Brett
McPherson.
defeated NORTHERN SUBURBS DEVILS 18
Tries: Paul
Whaturia 2, Terry Bensen, Semi Tadulala
Goals: Paul
Sheedy
Team: 1. Paul Sheedy, 2. Brad Watts, 3.
Paul Whaturia, 4. Donvan Slade, 5. Semi Tadulala, 6. Kevin Carmichael (c), 7.
Marty Turner, 8. Wade Fenton, 9. Terry Benson, 10.
Russell Bawden, 11. Pat Gardner, 12. Dallas Johnson, 13.
Michael Russo. Interchange:
14. Jason Wrigley, 15.
Nick Walker, 16. John Flint,
17.
Junior Langi.
Venue: Bishop Park
Date: Saturday July 28
Referee: Rob Alexander
Half-time: East Coast 18-4
Penalties: Norths 8-3
Scrums: Norths 10-9
When They Scored: 3 min: East Coast 2-0 (Wilshere
goal), 13 min: East Coast 8-0 (Wilshere try, goal), 25
min: East Coast 12-0 (Jensen try), 30 min: East Coast
12-4 (Benson try), 39 min: East Coast 18-4 (Sipple
try, Wilshere goal), 43 min: East Coast 22-4 (Taylor
try), 64 min: East Coast 28-4 (Thorburn try, Wilshere
goal), 73 min: East Coast 28-8 (Whaturia try), 76 min:
East Coast 28-12 (Whaturia try), 78 min: East Coast
28-18 (Tadulala try, Sheedy goal).
Sin Bin: Kevin Carmichael (Norths), Scott
Sipple (East Coast)
East Coast has gained a
bit of an psychological edge with a 28-18 win over
Norths at Bishop Park on Saturday. These two sides are
almost certain to play in the elimination semi-final
and a win in this game would go a long way in gaining
home ground advantage for this match. The Tigers' win
now gives them a good chance of snatching 4th spot off
the Devils, whom they now only trail by 1 point. They
have an much easier draw than Norths and would be
favourites to finish in that spot at the end of the
preliminary rounds.
The victory was set up with a dominant first half in
which they took the opportunities that were given to
them to be up 18-4 at the break. John Wilshere, Marcus
Jensen and Scott Sipple were the try scorers for the
visitors while Terry Bensen was the solitary scorer
for the Devils.
East Coast soon added to the Devils' frustrations when
Ricky Taylor crossed for a try just after half-time.
Ironically, Norths' coach Terry Matterson was speaking
to Warren Boland on TV at the time and would have been
none too pleased at conceding what was a pretty soft
try.
The Devils tried their best to get back into the match
but they could not penetrate the tough Tigers defence.
The match was all over when Scott Thorburn intercepted
a Marty Turner long pass and sprinted all the way to
the try line, in the 64th minute, to make the score
28-6 in favour of East Coast.
After the Thorburn try, the Tigers went to sleep and
the home side ran in three quick tries in the final
minutes of the match. Paul Whaturia scored two and
Semi Tadulala another as Norths finally put together
some good tries. Both sides finished the match with
only with 12 men after Kevin Carmichael and Scott
Sipple were sent to the sin-bin for fighting in the
74th minute. However, the late rush of tries was a
little too late for the home side and East Coast ran
out 28-18 winners.
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