Will Evans, 18, to make Intrust Super Cup debut for Burleigh Bears against PNG on Sunday
THE Burleigh Bears will on Sunday unleash an Intrust Super Cup debutant earmarked for NRL stardom with the Gold Coast Titans.
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THE Burleigh Bears will on Sunday unleash an Intrust Super Cup debutant earmarked for NRL stardom with the Gold Coast Titans.
Normally a centre, 18-year-old Will Evans will start on the wing when the third-placed Bears face struggling PNG in Port Moresby at 3pm.
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Contracted to the Titans, Evans started the season in Burleigh’s under-18 Mal Meninga Cup side before working his way through the grades.
“It’s a pretty meteoric rise,” Bears president Damian Driscoll said.
“He’s Titans-contracted and he’s one of the kids they’re hoping will push through (to NRL). He’s played his juniors at Burleigh and … he played A grade a few weeks ago and acquitted himself pretty well.”
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Evans is a former Queensland under-16 representative and also featured in the 2018 NRL Schoolboys Cup national final for Palm Beach Currumbin.
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