Penrith have continued their impressive start to the NRL season and their domination of Cronulla, with winger Tom Jenkins extending his try-scoring spree.<\/p>\n
Following their opening romp against premiers Brisbane, the Panthers easily outclassed the Sharks with a 26-6 victory at Bathurst’s Carrington Park; conceding their only points against of 2026 in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s win was the Panthers’ 10th in their last 11 matches against the Sharks.<\/p>\n
Jenkins backed up his brace against the Broncos with another two tries to leap to the top of the NRL season try-scoring tally.<\/p>\n
Superstar halfback Nathan Cleary swung momentum Penrith’s way early with a 40:20 kick in the fifth minute and one tackle later winger Brian To’o crossed for the first try of the night.<\/p>\n
Brian To’o of the Panthers celebrates a try\u00a0Mark Evans\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
On the back of an impressive completion rate and suffocating defence, the Panthers extended the lead to 18-0 by halftime with Cronulla paying the price for some flimsy tackles and poor handling.<\/p>\n
The second try came after a controversial call by referee Ashley Klein, penalising Sharks centre Jesse Ramien for an early tackle after he bumped into Jenkins before he caught the ball.<\/p>\n
Blaize Talagi then sent a long ball out to Jenkins, who beat Nicho Hynes en route to the tryline.<\/p>\n
Three minutes after halftime Jenkins was in for his second with the Panthers building an insurmountable 24-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Sharks lifted and winger Sione Katoa broke their points drought when he scrambled across the line for their sole try, which was converted by Hynes.<\/p>\n
They stemmed Penrith’s scoring but with Cleary in superb touch the hosts maintained control for another classy win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penrith have continued their impressive start to the NRL season and their domination of Cronulla, with winger Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-540151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540151","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=540151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}