CRONULLA CARINGBAH U15A V DE LA SALLE

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They got a roll on early after a silly Cronulla mistake letting the ball go dead from the kick off.

They then got repeat sets of six and after about 20 hard fought tackles Tom Mc Lennan waltzed over the line without an opposition hand on him.

De La 6-0

De La The “force” was with De La and with the refs call going their way as well.

Zac Wedersweiler was on fire all day hitting it up hard and was also great in defence as well.

He scored a well deserved try right next to the posts. Cronulla Caringbah fumbled the ball straight back to the opposition and before long De La centre Tom McLennan scored a little bit away from the posts.

16- 0 with about 5 mins to go in the first half.

Cronulla Caringbah finally got some sets of six after a couple of quick penalties scoring shortly after with a good little barge over the line by Michael Lichaa (c).

Cameron Paddy missed this conversion but got the other two later on. 16-4 half time.

From half time the momentum stayed with Cronulla for a while with big Eronny Mareko, who also defended well , made it over the line after a good barging run.

With possession came more points and Cronulla got the ball wide for Guy Meagrossi to score in the corner.

16 all with 15 minutes left to play!

The game hung in the balance for a while with De La gaining the ascendancy getting more possession.

A crucial short kick by De La’s cheeky half Rory Hood had the ref call line drop out against Cronulla.

De La forwards ran it straight and hard giving Tom McLellan plenty of room to run with an excellent game in the centres.

Luke Manahan smashed and pushed his way over for a try.

22- 16 De La.

Cronulla tried desperately to get back into it.

Jeremy Saville who has the deadliest “fend” in the business came within inches of scoring. But the De La defence somehow managed to hold Cronulla out.

Cronulla’s marker defence and forward defence just seemed to fall away from the De La forwards with Same Barraket and Reece Davidson powering through on a number of occasions.

Before long Dion Beatty, playing at fullback, made a cracking break up the middle, side stepped the speedy Stacey Morrel, and put it down near the posts. 28 -16 with 7 mins left on the clock.

This topped off a really good game for the fullback.
Cronulla desperately tried to get back into it and did threatened down the left side but stepped back in with the try line open. They sent it wide but it all ended up nowhere.

A game characterised by very strong defence from the De La forward pack especially in the first half.

De La stepped up to the plate today and with an almost full strength team are looking good for the finals.

Cronulla’s best players were Jeremy Saville and Clinton Strickland who tackled their hearts out. Scott Sorenson was good at half back but got crowded around the ruck area.

Rea Pittman tried hard but was a marked man and couldn’t get a break.