NYC Match Report - Penrith v Sea Eagles 160515
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NYC: Panthers dominate Sea Eagles Elyssa King Sat 16th May, 02:53PM The Panthers NYC Team has continued their recent winning streak with a victory over the Manly Sea Eagles at St Mary’s Leagues Stadium. The Panthers opened the scoring in the third minute with Dylan Edwards slotting through a well- placed grubber that was collected by Robert Jennings who planted the ball near the left hand corner. The kick from Corey Harawira-Naera sailed smoothly through the uprights to open the scoring at 6-0 to the Panthers. The Sea Eagles were soon to follow with their first points of the day in the 7 th minute with Liam Knight scoring underneath the posts despite the Panthers best defensive attempts. The successful conversion leveled the score at 6-6. The even possession in the opening stages from both sides showed that this contest would be hard fought and won only by completed sets with minimal errors. The Panthers consistency finally paid off when Sam Elwin barreled through two defenders, offloading to Brent Naden who slipped the ball to Moses Leota to crash over the line with defenders on his back in the 12 th minute. The ball just skewed away from the uprights unsuccessfully to bring the score to 10-6 to the Panthers.
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NYC: Panthers dominate Sea EaglesElyssa King
Sat 16th May, 02:53PM
The Panthers NYC Team has continued their recent winning streak with a victory over the Manly SeaEagles at St Mary’s Leagues Stadium.
The Panthers opened the scoring in the third minute with Dylan Edwards slotting through a well-placed grubber that was collected by Robert Jennings who planted the ball near the left handcorner. The kick from Corey Harawira-Naera sailed smoothly through the uprights to open thescoring at 6-0 to the Panthers.
The Sea Eagles were soon to follow with their first points of the day in the 7th minute with LiamKnight scoring underneath the posts despite the Panthers best defensive attempts. The successfulconversion leveled the score at 6-6.
The even possession in the opening stages from both sides showed that this contest would be hardfought and won only by completed sets with minimal errors. The Panthers consistency finally paidoff when Sam Elwin barreled through two defenders, offloading to Brent Naden who slipped theball to Moses Leota to crash over the line with defenders on his back in the 12th minute. The balljust skewed away from the uprights unsuccessfully to bring the score to 10-6 to the Panthers.
The Panthers reclaimed possession in the 16th minute with an intercept from Dylan Edwards, his 40metre solo sprint pushed the Panthers forwards deep into the opposition’s half. Maliko Filino tookadvantage of scattered numbers on the left hand wing with a cut out pass to Christian Crichton whoplanted down just inside the corner post. The conversion was unsuccessful, but the added pointspushed the Panthers’ lead to 14-6.
The Panthers continued their momentum in the following sets, quickly capitalising on a high lift togain twenty metres in the 24th minute. Maliko Filino slipped easily through a waiting gap on theopen side of the field before bringing the ball to ground near the uprights. The conversion from infront extended the Panthers lead to 20 – 6.
The Panthers dominant attacking streak was not to be slowed. In the 36th minute, Paea Pua slippeda nice pass to Brent Naden who backed himself over the final thirty metres to score again on thefavoured left hand side of the pitch. The conversion fell just short of the centre bar – increasing thescore line to 24-6..
Penrith closed the half ensuring that their opponents did not add to their score line before thebreak. James Fisher-Harris finished a set highlighted with an impressive display of possession bypowering through two defenders before Cameron Collins support play was rewarded with the finaltry of the half.
HALF TIME: Panthers 28-6
Despite a strong attacking display from the Sea Eagles the Panthers were back on the attack fromthe first whistle and their persistence paid off in the 47th minute. A cross field kick sailed into thewaiting hands of Fuimanu Enese who outpaced the defenders on the right hand wing beforebringing the ball back close to the posts to push the Panthers lead to 36-6.
The strong early opening sets from the Sea Eagles were finally rewarded with their second set ofpoints on the board for the day through Tom Trbojevic. The successful conversion from Manlybrought the score to 36-12 in the 52nd minute.
Penrith were quick to dismiss any question of their dominance with the attacking displays thatfollowed, A surging run from Robert Jennings and a well placed offload from Dylan Edwards set upMaliko Filino for the final foot race to touch the ball down close to the posts in the 60th minute. Thesuccessful conversion hit the inside upright, pushing the Panthers lead to 42-12.
The remainder of the game was highlighted by entertaining displays from both sides. Manly’s TomTrbojevic contributed his second try for the afternoon in the final five minutes.
FULL TIME: Panthers 42-16
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