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QRL junior rep award winners announced

Joint Mal Meninga Cup Players of the Year - Gerome Burns & AJ Brimson
The joint Mal Meninga Cup Players of the Year – Gerome Burns & AJ Brimson

The FOGS Colts Challenge, Mal Meninga Cup and Cyril Connell Cup Player of the Year awards have been announced tonight at the Queensland Rugby League Major Competitions Awards in Brisbane.

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NSW Under 20s squad named

Tevita Pangai (Photo: Rohan Thomson/The Canberra Times)
Tevita Pangai (Photo: Rohan Thomson/The Canberra Times)

The NSWRL has named their 2016 Under 20s Origin squad, who will attend an Origin Pathways High-Performance Camp held at Narrabeen this weekend. Continue reading “NSW Under 20s squad named” →

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NSW Continue Under 20’s Dominance

(Photo: nswrl.com.au)
(Photo: nswrl.com.au)

New South Wales have made it four straight Under 20s Origin victories with a 32-16 win over Queensland on Wednesday night.

Defensively impressive all game, the Junior Blues scored all six of their tries down Queensland’s right side with Gold Coast Titans winger Brian Kelly the major benefactor, scoring four tries.

New South Wales took an early 12-0 lead thanks to Kelly’s first two tries of the night. The Junior Maroons fought their way back into the game with a try to Gideon Mosby-Gela, going into the half time break 12-4.

A Queensland try after half time to Alex Barr put the Maroons two points behind but after Queensland’s Jayden Nikorima was forced from the field with injury, it was all New South Wales.

Latrell Mitchell broke through some soft defence to score an impressive try, which was followed up by two more tries to Kelly, who also set up a try for Jackson Hastings.

Queensland pegged back a consolation try to Luke Bateman off a Blues error but the damage was already done.

New South Wales halfback and captain Drew Hutchison was named Man of the Match.

NSW U20 32 (Brian Kelly 4, Jackson Hastings, Latrell Mitchell tries; Hastings 3 goals, Addison Demetriou 1 goal) def. Qld U20 16 (Alex Barr, Luke Bateman, Gideon Mosby-Gela tries; Ashley Taylor 2 goals) at Suncorp Stadium.

Full match report available HERE.

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Queensland U20s Origin team named

Coen Hess (Photo: Colin Whelan/NRL Photos)
Coen Hess (Photo: Colin Whelan/NRL Photos)

The 2015 Queensland Under 20 squad has been announced today for their annual clash against New South Wales.

The team selected features 10 members of the Brisbane Broncos Holden Cup side, 6 players from this year’s Junior Kangaroos team and Holden Cup leading tryscorer Gideon Mosby-Gela.

South Sydney Rabbitohs assistant coach Kurt Wrigley will coach the side for the first time. A Toowoomba native, Wrigley played first grade for Cronulla, St George and the Adelaide Rams.

The side will play New South Wales U20 as the curtain-raiser to Origin III on Wednesday 8 July at Suncorp Stadium.

1 Paul Byrnes (Brisbane Broncos)
2 Gideon Mosby-Gela (North Qld Cowboys)
3 Jordan Drew (Brisbane Broncos)
4 Marion Seve (Wests Tigers)
5 Conor Carey (North Qld Cowboys)
6 Jayden Nikorima (Brisbane Broncos)
7 Ashley Taylor (Brisbane Broncos)
8 George Fai (Brisbane Broncos)
9 Jayden Berrell (Brisbane Broncos)
10 Lindsay Collins (Brisbane Broncos)
11 Coen Hess (North Qld Cowboys)
12 Alex Barr (Brisbane Broncos)
13 Jai Arrow (Brisbane Broncos)

14 Karl Lawton (Gold Coast Titans)
15 Luke Bateman (Canberra Raiders)
16 Sam Lavea (Brisbane Broncos)
17 Oshae Tuiasau (Gold Coast Titans)
18 Andrew Niemoeller (North Qld Cowboys)

Coach: Kurt Wrigley