Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league Team of the Grand Finals
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We named the Team of the Grand Finals after the five 2021 Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league grand finals played over the last 48 hours.
On Tuesday Marsden SHS won the year 7 Broncos Old Boys Cup, while PBC claimed the year 8 Renouf Shield, then yesterday PBC SHS twice beat Keebra Park SHS (Hancock and Walters Cup) while Wavell won after the bell in the Langer reserves over Marsden SHS.
WHERE TO WATCH THE REPLAYS
OLD BOYS CUP, RENOUF REPLAYS HERE
LANGER RESERVES GRAND FINAL REPLAY
HANCOCK, WALTERS CUP GRAND FINAL REPLAYS
Matches were livestreamed by News Corp and featured among the best rising talent in the state.
PBC SHS Renouf Sield coach Geoff Eggart said it was a great win by his side to topple the benchmark outfit of the competition - Marsden SHS.
“We basically lost one game to Redcliffe the whole competition and Marsden have been the benchmark all year so we were just delighted to get the chocolates. They worked really hard,’’ Eggart said.
Marsden SHS Old Boys (year 7) competition coach Cameron Webb said it was a great team performance to finish off the season with a win over Ipswich SHS.
“It was a team performance. There were a number of players who put up their hands. That was the real strength of his team - that there was 13 and not relying on one or two to get the job done. “They came together to work as a unit.’’
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Marsden SHS beat Ipswich SHS well, but Ipswich still showed plenty of promise - according to our Ipswich reporter Daviid Lems who named their best players here.
Then yesterday Wavell SHS coach Mick Roberts, who has seen plenty in rugby league, was stunned to see his five-eight Nayten Iselin-Jansen field a drop kick restart 65m out as the full-time hooter sounded, and then score to break a 12-all deadlock.
Iselin-Jansen was the last to board the team bus after the match and was beaming like a boy about to sit on Santa’s lap.
Marsden SHS fullback Dom Sandow and Wavell SHS hooker Harri Sykes also shone in an all-star match, while Marsden pair Marley Lupeomanu and Jermaine Pangai impacted their side.
On the Gold Coast, PBC SHS were confirmed as the 2021 SEQ schoolboy champions with wins in the Hancock and Walters Cups - following last week’s NRL Schoolboys Cup win over Marsden SHS.
That made it four premierships for PBC SHS from six grand finals.
Yesterday in the Hancock Cup PBC SHS centre Sunny Karma was presented with the man of the match award, while Keebra Park SHS’s prop Micah Eteru and PBC SHS fullback Sam Stephenson also shone.
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REPLAY OF MICHAEL ROBERTS’ TRY
In the Walters Cup PBC SHS’s Jaylan Taewa scored the go-ahead try in the second-half and was near-perfect from the tee, most from the sideline, in a great individual performance. One of his tries was set up by interchange player Reshawn Anderson.
PBC SHS Zane Harrison made some early errors but his constant voice and playmaking presence in the middle of the park was key to PBC’s success, while Keebra Park centre Dorian Lotaki scored a great bustling try and shone for his side.
Special mention for two players who narrowly missed our squad, Kallum Stacey-Weatherall (Wavell SHS Langer Reserves who was a Langer Trophy standard player, and Marsden SHS five-eighth Caleb Cresswell (Marsden SHS, year 7) who sparked his team.
Team of the Grand Finals
1. Dom Sandow (Marsden, Langer reserves)
2. Dorian Lotaki (Keebra Park SHS, year 10)
3. Chris Vaimili (Marsden SHS, year 7)
4. Sunny Karma (PBC SHS, year 9)
5. Jonah Harris (PBC SHS year 8)
6. Nayten Iselin-Jansen (Wavell SHS, Langer reserves)
7. ZJ Watene (Marsden SHS, year 7)
8. Micah Eteru (Keebra Park SHS, year 9)
9. Jaylan Naleba (Ipswich SHS, year 7)
10. Marlie Barry (PBC SHS year 8)
11. Jaylan Taewa (PBC SHS, year 10)
12. Storm Enoka (Marsden SHS, year 7)
13. Brodie Saunders (PBC SHS, year 8)
14. Sam Stephenson (PBC SHS, year 9
15. Kwinn Wolf (PBC SHS, year 8)
16. Reece Gorman (Marsden SHS, year 8)
17. Mace Andrew (PBC SHS, year 8)
18. Harri Sykes (Wavell SHS, year 12)
19. Brendon Bruce (Ipswich SHS, year 7)
20. TJ Sauaso (Ipswich SHS year 7).
On Wednesday, www.couriermail.com.au, the Gold Coast Bulletin and regional News Corp will livestream the Phil Hall Cup state grand final between Palm Beach Currumbin SHS and St Brendan’s College Yeppoon, who beat Kirwan SHS in the Payne Cup grand final.
LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE
September 15 (Redcliffe Dolphins)
Phil Hall Cup state grand final
3.30pm: St Brendan’s v Palm Beach Currumbin SHS
Karen Murphy grand final:
2.30pm: Out of Kirwan SHS, Shalom College, Ipswich SHS, Keebra Park SHS
NRL Schoolboys Cup Qld grand final:
1.30pm: St Augustine’s v Lockyer District
Originally published as Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league Team of the Grand Finals
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