{"id":156092,"date":"2025-09-20T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156092\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:06:11","slug":"newcastle-knights-make-light-work-of-gold-coast-titans-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156092\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Knights make light work of Gold Coast Titans \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/newcastle-knights-make-light-work-of-gold-coast-titans\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Newcastle Knights make light work of Gold Coast Titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NRLW-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS 34 GOLD COAST TITANS 20<br \/>CALLUM WALKER, McDonald Jones Stadium, Saturday<\/p>\n<p>NEWCASTLE stormed into the next round of the finals with a comprehensive victory over a Georgia Hale-inspired Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights raced into a 24-0 lead just after half-time, but the Titans \u2013 led by their captain Hale \u2013 mounted a comeback, even if it was in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Fane Finau opened the scoring for the hosts in the third minute before Keighley Simpson doubled Newcastle\u2019s lead shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Southwell kept the scoreboard ticking over with two penalties as Olivia Higgins\u2019 four-pointer on the stroke of half-time gave the Knights a commanding 18-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Shanice Parker struck immediately following the resumption to make it 24-0 before the Titans seemingly kicked into gear as Jasmine Solia and Sarina Masaga reduced the deficit to 14 with 15 minutes to go.<\/p>\n<p>But, Kayla Romaniuk\u2019s effort on the hour quelled any Gold Coast hopes as Phoenix-Raine Hippi grabbed a late double for the Titans, before Parker notched her second to round things off in exciting fashion.<\/p>\n<p>KNIGHTS:\u00a01 Botille Vette-Welsh, 2 Sheridan Gallagher, 3 Shanice Parker, 4 Tenika Willison, 5 Keighley Simpson, 6 Georgia Roche, 7 Jesse Southwell, 8 Tayla Predebon, 9 Olivia Higgins, 10 Tiana Davison ,11 Fane Finau, 12 Yasmin Clydsdale (C), 13 Kayla Romaniuk. Subs (all used): 14 Jules Kirkpatrick, 15 Viena Tinao, 16 Sienna Yeo, 17 Grace Giampino<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Finau (3), Simpson (12), Higgings (35), Parker (39, 68), Romaniuk (60); Goals:\u00a0Southwell 5\/8<\/p>\n<p>TITANS:\u00a01 Lailani Montgomery, 3 Georgia Grey, 4 Ivana Lolesio, 22 Sarina Masaga, 5 Destiny Mino-Sinapati, 6 Taliah Fuimaono, 7 Lauren Brown, 8 Sienna Lofipo, 14 Brittany Breayley-Nati, 10 Jessika Elliston, 11 Jasmine Solia, 12 Shaylee Bent, 13 Georgia Hale (C). Subs (all used): 2 Phoenix-Raine Hippi, 9 Lily-Rose Kolc, 15 Laikha Clarke, 16 Natasha Penitani<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Solia (45), Masaga (57), Hippi (63, 65); Goals:\u00a0Brown 2\/4<\/p>\n<p>SCORING SEQUENCE:\u00a04-0, 8-0, 10-0, 12-0, 18-0; 24-0, 24-4, 24-10, 30-10, 30-16, 30-20, 34-20<\/p>\n<p>Rugby Leaguer &amp; League Express Player of the Match<br \/>Knights:\u00a0Shanice Parker;\u00a0Titans:\u00a0Georgia Hale<\/p>\n<p>Penalty count: 8-7; Half-time: 18-0; Referee: Belinda Sharpe; Attendance:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS 34 GOLD COAST TITANS 20CALLUM WALKER, McDonald Jones Stadium, Saturday NEWCASTLE stormed into the next round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-156092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}