{"id":75152,"date":"2025-08-17T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75152\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:53:08","slug":"canberra-raiders-and-wests-tigers-finally-off-the-mark-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75152\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders and Wests Tigers finally off the mark \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AT the seventh time of asking, both CANBERRA RAIDERS and WESTS TIGERS claimed their first victories of the season.<\/p>\n

Canberra did so only after a late scare from eleven-player NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS in front of an NRLW standalone-record crowd of 5,968 in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Remarkably the Warriors had both Matekino Gray and Tysha Ikenasio sent off in three first-half minutes for dangerous tackles.<\/p>\n

They already trailed 0-12 at that point, to Jordyn Preston and Sereana Naitokatoka tries plus two Zehara Temara goals.<\/p>\n

Further tries from Mackenzie Wiki and Elise Simpson should have had the Raiders out of sight but two late scores from Payton Takimoana, completing a hat-trick and adding to a Lavinia Tauhalaliku effort, left them clinging on for a 16-20 success.<\/p>\n

A fast start was also crucial for Wests in their 16-12 home victory against ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS.<\/p>\n

Detaya Faifua and Tiani-Lee Thorne both scored in an opening nine minutes which also saw the Dragons\u2019 Hannah Southwell sent to the bin for a dangerous tackle.<\/p>\n

Zali Hopkins cut the deficit but Faifua\u2019s second try and Emily Bass\u2019 second conversion gave the Tigers a 16-6 half-time lead.<\/p>\n

While Raecene McGregor converted Tori Shipton\u2019s try with 15 minutes left, adding to a first-half goal, Saints fell short.<\/p>\n

BRISBANE BRONCOS were utterly dominant in a 38-4 victory over PARRAMATTA EELS, with Julia Robinson scoring two tries and setting up a further two.<\/p>\n

Romy Teitzel and Mele Hufanga also crossed twice, and kicked three goals, while further four-pointers were registered by Hayley Maddick and Destiny Brill.<\/p>\n

Only with seven minutes left did Martha Mataele get the woefully overpowered Eels on the board.<\/p>\n

Brisbane keep up the pursuit of SYDNEY ROOSTERS, who maintained their perfect record with a 30-14 success over third-placed NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS.<\/p>\n

Tarryn Aiken scored two tries, the others coming from Jasmin Strange, Brydie Parker and Olivia Kernick.<\/p>\n

Jocelyn Kelleher converted all five Roosters efforts while Newcastle responded through Jules Kirkpatrick, Georgia Roche and Tess Staines tries, one improved by Jesse Southwell.<\/p>\n

NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS remain in fourth position following a 22-6 win over CANTERBURY BULLDOGS inspired by captain Kirra Dibb.<\/p>\n

Dibb scored the opening try, kicked three goals and set up Jasmine Peters for the Cowboys\u2019 final points, with Lily Peacock and Jakiya Whitfeld also crossing in between.<\/p>\n

Moana Courtenay scored Canterbury\u2019s only try, converted by Tayla Preston.<\/p>\n

Chantay Kiria-Ratu kicked two late penalties to earn fifth-placed CRONULLA SHARKS a gritty 12-8 home win over GOLD COAST TITANS.<\/p>\n

After a scoreless first half, Lauren Brown converted her own opening try for the Titans while Cronulla had Anne-Marie Kiria-Ratu \u2013 Chantay\u2019s younger sister \u2013 in the sin bin for a hip-drop tackle.<\/p>\n

Emma Verran scored a try and set up another for Cassie Staples to nudge the Sharks in front before a Brown penalty levelled.<\/p>\n

Results
Saturday 16 August
Cronulla Sharks 12 Gold Coast Titans 8
Brisbane Broncos 38 Parramatta Eels 4
New Zealand Warriors 16 Canberra Raiders 20
Sunday 17 August
Wests Tigers 16 St George Illawarra Dragons 12
Sydney Roosters 30 Newcastle Knights 14
North Queensland Cowboys 22 Canterbury Bulldogs 6<\/p>\n

Fixtures
Saturday 23 August
Canterbury Bulldogs v Canberra Raiders (3.45am)
Gold Coast Titans v St George Illawarra Dragons (6.15am)
Parramatta Eels v Sydney Roosters (8.15am)
Sunday 24 August
Newcastle Knights v Brisbane Broncos (2.50am)
New Zealand Warriors v Cronulla Sharks (4.45am)
Wests Tigers v North Queensland Cowboys (9.15am)
(All UK time, all on Sky Sports and Watch NRL)<\/p>\n

Table
Sydney Roosters 14 pts
Brisbane Broncos 12 pts
Newcastle Knights 10 pts
North Queensland Cowboys 10 pts
Cronulla Sharks 8 pts
New Zealand Warriors 6 pts
Parramatta Eels 6 pts
Canterbury Bulldogs 5 pts
Gold Coast Titans 5 pts
St George Illawarra Dragons 4 pts
Wests Tigers 2 pts
Canberra Raiders 2 pts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT the seventh time of asking, both CANBERRA RAIDERS and WESTS TIGERS claimed their first victories of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-75152","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\/75152","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=75152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}