Tiana Penitani-Grey has been ruled out of the upcoming match due to a knee injury she sustained in Game One.<\/p>\n
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She has subsequently been replaced by Kezie Apps in the starting team, with Rima Butler coming onto the interchange bench to make her Origin debut after a remarkable 12 months in rugby league.<\/p>\n
The remainder of the team remains the same, but Hannah Southwell will join the extended squad.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Queensland will be without Phoenix-Raine Hippi as they re-enter camp this week after she sustained a hamstring injury during the opening game. <\/p>\n
She has been replaced in the squad by North Queensland Cowboys outside back Jasmine Peters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been really happy with the way the group has responded since Newcastle,\u201d coach Nathan Cross said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a strong energy around camp. The players know what\u2019s required at Origin level and they\u2019re excited by the opportunity to bring the series back to Queensland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw some really positive signs in Game I. The effort areas, the physicality and the way the group connected under pressure were all strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis squad has worked hard for each other right through the pre-series period and there\u2019s a real belief in what we\u2019re building together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blues draw first blood in women’s SOO G1 | 02:55<\/p>\n
SQUADS<\/p>\n
New South Wales: 1. Abbi Church, 2. Jaime Chapman, 3. Jess Sergis, 4. Isabelle Kelly, 5. Jayme Fressard, 6. Jocelyn Kelleher, 7. Jesse Southwell, 8. Millie Elliott, 9. Keeley Nizza, 10. Ellie Johnston, 11. Kezie Apps, 12. Yasmin Meakes, 13. Olivia Kernick, 14. Olivia Higgins, 15. Kennedy Cherrington, 16. Rima Butler, 17. Teagan Berry, 18. Corban Baxter, 19. Quincy Dodd, 20. Hannah Southwell<\/p>\n
Queensland: Brianna Clark, Chantay Kiria-Ratu, Chelsea Lenarduzzi, Destiny Brill, Destiny Mino-Sinapati*, Emma Manzelmann, Ivana Lolesio, Jada Ferguson, Jasmine Peters, Jess Elliston, Julia Robinson, Keilee Joseph, Lauren Brown, Makenzie Weale, Otesa Pule, Romy Teitzel, Rory Owen, Shenae Ciesiolka, Sienna Lofipo, Tamika Upton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New South Wales and Queensland have both been forced into making changes for the second match of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-652819","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\/652819","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=652819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}