Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThat mattered little to the visitors, who finally converted a good start into victory after four losses this season despite leading at halftime.<\/p>\n
They improved to 2-5 while the Reds fell to 4-3, their second-straight loss dropping them to sixth when victory could have shot them into third place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Force had lost 11 of their last 12 games and 22 of their last 24 on the road, while the Reds had won nine of their last 11 encounters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Force fly-half Ben Donaldson excelled up against Reds No.10 and Wallabies rival Carter Gordon, running incisive lines and kicking potently both in-play and off the tee.<\/p>\n
Argentinian lock Franco Molina, in for injured Force skipper Jeremy Williams, had a night out with a first-half double and several clutch lineout plays before rolling over for his third try after the final hooter.<\/p>\n
Force fullback Mac Grealy also impressed against his former side, scoring a try after terrific build-up, while his opposite Jock Campbell was one of many Reds who struggled.<\/p>\n
Teenage Reds winger Treyvon Pritchard lasted less than 10 minutes into his starting debut, failing his Head Injury Assessment after copping a knock when making a cover tackle.<\/p>\n
Force prop Tom Robertson followed him soon after when he was caught out of position tackling Tim Ryan.<\/p>\n
And Force winger Darby Lancaster limped off with a lower leg injury after leaping over Campbell to catch a Donaldson bomb and put his side ahead 28-12.<\/p>\n
A late 80-metre effort, finished by Reds winger Filipo Daugunu, looked likely to deny the Force their first bonus-point win over the Reds since 2012 before Molina’s third after the siren.<\/p>\n
Lomax watched it all from the sidelines after pulling up sore following Thursday’s main session in the latest twist to the winger’s rollercoaster year.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old lit up the NRL during stints with St George Illawarra and Parramatta before walking away from a lucrative Eels contract with the intention of joining R360.<\/p>\n
That was flipped on its head when the rebel league’s entry was postponed, with Lomax’s subsequent bid to join the Melbourne Storm ending in an out-of-court settlement ahead of a potential NSW Supreme Court hearing last month.<\/p>\n
Rugby Australia signed the Test and NSW State of Origin star on a two-year deal with next year’s home World Cup the obvious carrot.<\/p>\n
Lomax has trained for two weeks in Perth and was set for minutes off the bench on Saturday before the hiccup, which is believed to be minor.<\/p>\n
Instead he’ll target a debut in Fiji against the Drua next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force have trounced the Queensland Reds, defying the last-minute scratching of NRL recruit Zac Lomax to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85,11229],"class_list":{"0":"post-584941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-queensland-reds","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-western-force"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584941","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=584941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}