2025 Langer Trophy live stream: Keebra Park SHS v Wavell SHS, Round 3
Keebra Park has maintained its unbeaten start to the Langer Trophy, but they were forced to work until the final minute by a plucky Wavell State High. Watch the REPLAYS.
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Wavell State High forced unbeaten Keebra Park to work until the final minute to find its knockout punch in the Langer Trophy, scoring at the death to win 16-12 and extending the Gold Coast school’s Langer Trophy streak to three wins in a row.
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This was the Blue Wall’s greatest test by far in 2025 as Keebra Park trailed for all but 15 minutes of the match against a plucky Wavell outfit few predicted to test the Langer Trophy’s leaders.
Tries in the final minute of each half saw the Gold Coast outfit escape down the M1 with their third scalp of the campaign and dreams of a fourth national championship well and truly alive.
Should Keebra Park find itself in a national grand final showdown later this season, players can look back to this 15-degree night in north Brisbane for inspiration when the going gets tough.
The Gold Coasters broke free of a 12-all deadlock in final minute of regulation time when blockbusting Broncos signing Joseph Tupuse drew-and-passed for wing mate Siosaia Poese to score the matchwinner in the left corner.
The school had waited 29 minutes for its first lead of the match, only to lose it again 15 minutes later when Wavell centre and captain Sangstar Figota burrowed through the line to take a 12-10 advantage.
Star fullback David Bryenton set the stage for the grandstand finish with a penalty goal to tie the affair at 12-all with seven minutes remaining.
Wavell blinked first, turning over possession and granting Keebra Park a sniff just 20m out with two minutes on the clock.
With pulsating drums underlining the tension in the air, Wavell’s desperate defence could not hold on.
Junior Bronco Tupuse executed his moment to perfection to gift Poese a simple finish inside the corner flag.
Wavell had one last chance but could not breach Keebra Park’s wall of defenders this time - but after a performance like this, it would take a brave soul to discount Wavell’s chances of progressing into the new five-team Langer Trophy post-season.
KEEBRA PARK SHS 16 (Harvey Smith, Cornelius Kelsall, Siosaia Poese tries; David Brytenton 1 goal, 1 penalty) DEF. WAVELL SHS 12 (Lisiate Fa’aoso, Sangstar Figota tries; Timahna Tandy 2 goals)
WALTERS CUP
A furious Wavell State High comeback saw the north Brisbane school erase a 24-0 second half deficit to tie Keebra Park in the final play of the Walters Cup Round 3 clash.
Wavell five-eighth Aki Tupouniua scored a try, three conversions and the decisive penalty goal after the siren to end the match in stalemate.
It was a remarkable comeback effort from the northsiders after Keebra Park fullback Sunny Hewitt streaked 90m to send his side ahead 24-0 just five minutes into the second half.
Wavell never quit, and tries to bench weapons Cooper Elliott (No. 19) and Taj Kelly (No. 17) dragged the hosts back into the fight.
When fullback Jasiah Parsons wriggled through the defence the game was on.
Tupouniua’s missed conversion left his side behind by eight but the tall five-eighth would make amends with a fine solo try to close the gap to two in final play.
A penalty against Keebra Park for time-wasting while setting a scrum gifted Wavell the opportunity to snatch the unlikeliest of draws.
Tupouniua’s chip-in goal completed a haul of 24 unanswered points in 25 minutes to stun the visiting Gold Coasters.
It was a finale none would have expected after Keebra Park’s Will Hamblin, Khobi Edwards and Alex Ruiz – the player of the match – delivered a first half shut-out performance.
Interchange hooker Ruiz’s late first try could go down as the finest rake’s try of the Walters Cup season, accelerating through two large forwards before leaving the fullback grasping at air with a stellar left-foot sidestep to score untouched.
How Keebra Park unravelled from that point will be a question the team’s water boy, former New South Wales and NRL premiership star Todd Carney, will be up at night pondering this week.
KEEBRA PARK SHS 24 (Will Hamblin, Kobi Edwards, Alex Ruiz, Sonny Hewitt tries; Edwards 2 goals, Hewitt 2 goals) TIED WAVELL SHS 24 (Cooper Elliott, Taj Kelly, Jasiah Parsons, Aki Tupouniua tries; Tupouniua 3 goals; Tupouniua penalty)
PREVIEW
It has been more than 20 years since a touch football phenom lit up the back ovals of Keebra Park State High School, leaving a trail of broken ankles in his wake.
His name was Benji Marshall – a sidestepping freak of nature that made Keebra Park must-watch TV in the run to the old Arrive Alive Cup’s national finals.
Now, 22 years later, Benji’s heir apparent may have arrived on the Gold Coast.
His name is David Bryenton and two dizzying tries against Mabel Park last week – one scored himself, the other served up on a platter for winger Christopher Vaimili – has ignited fresh debate over whether Marshall will go down as the sickest ‘stepper to emerge from Keebra Park.
School coach Peter Norman wisely will not fan the flame of comparison but is happy to let the KommunityTV audience judge for itself at 5pm on Tuesday.
Keebra Park will clash with Wavell State High in the Langer Trohpy, with the double header action, which includes the Walters Cup, exclusively live streamed on KommunityTV.
“I’m not going to go on record saying David has the best footwork I’ve ever seen, but he is special,” Norman said.
“I don’t want to heap pressure on the kid by drawing comparisons to Benji, but you can see that yourself.
“I’m super confident that even if wanted to do touch on the side of football that he’d walk into the Australian touch team.”
It’s high praise because Norman is a current Australian touch football representative himself.
The honour roll of touch stars to graduate to NRL stardom includes Kalyn Ponga, AJ Brimson, Matt Moylan, Shaun Johnston, Jayden Campbell, Ryan Papenhuyzen and the trailblazing Keebra product Marshall.
“Benji Marshall was the OG (original) to come through touch football at Keebra Park and he had an outstanding career in the NRL. Just about anyone who is that ‘x-factor’ guy in the NRL these days has come through a touch background,” Norman said.
“It’s just the speed of the game. Touch is a lot faster than rugby league so it expedites decision making and execution of skill. You come back to rugby league from playing touch and it feels like everything’s happening in slow motion.”
Perhaps that is why the Bulldogs-contracted full-back’s untouchable left-foot step has led Keebra Park to the top of the Langer Trophy ladder after two weeks.
The Blue Wall’s unbeaten record will face its sternest test yet with Wavell State High School’s own sidestepping expert Charlie Webb at halfback.
Originally published as 2025 Langer Trophy live stream: Keebra Park SHS v Wavell SHS, Round 3
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