{"id":896634,"date":"2026-09-18T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896634\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:36:17","slug":"nrlw-news-2026-canberra-raiders-vs-wests-tigers-result-video-finals-week-1-kezie-apps-milestone-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896634\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW news 2026: Canberra Raiders vs Wests Tigers result, video, finals week 1, Kezie Apps milestone game"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the lowest-scoring NRLW<\/a> finals game in the competition\u2019s history, the Raiders <\/a>kept their premiership hopes alive with a 6-0 victory, eliminating the Wests Tigers<\/a> in front of their home crowd at Campbelltown Stadium. <\/p>\n

Though the scoreboard remained low, the match was a battle for both sides in their first-ever finals series on Friday night. <\/p>\n

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Raiders players celebrate at full-time.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Tigers players dug deep but struggled to maximise their attacking opportunities against an unrelenting Canberra defence.<\/p>\n

Canberra produced the only try of the match in the 17th minute, capitalising on slick ball movement from the Temara sisters, winger Isabella Waterman crashed over the line for the Green Machine to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n

The second half remained a grind as tension peaked when on-field referee Belinda Sharpe blew a penalty against the Tigers, gifting the visitors a crucial two points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of spice in this one,\u201d Mat Thompson said on Nine as scuffles ensued in the second half. <\/p>\n

Sheridan Gallagher was immense for Canberra, racking up 206 run metres.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst final series and now we\u2019re into the major semi so it\u2019s going to be pretty cool to go onto it next weekend,\u201d Gallagher told Nine post-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come from a soccer background and I think you know growing up kicking a round ball has really helped me come across to the game and um be able to put the bombs up in game now.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Tigers, the defeat marked a bitter end to a milestone day. <\/p>\n

The club were celebrating their first finals appearance \u2013 men\u2019s or women\u2019s \u2013 in 15 years, on the same day veteran Kezie Apps played her 50th game. <\/p>\n

With the victory, the Raiders now head to a preliminary final against the Sydney Roosters next weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the lowest-scoring NRLW finals game in the competition\u2019s history, the Raiders kept their premiership hopes alive with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-896634","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\/896634","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=896634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}