Tickets are on sale now for the Force’s next home game in Kids Round against the Fijian Drua on Saturday 16 May 5:35pm via Ticketmaster. Book here.<\/a><\/p>\nIn a tough encounter the first-half ended with just one try
\napiece from flanker Carlo Tizzano in his 50th Force appearance and Reds
\nbackrower Joe Brial.<\/p>\n
After the break Force full-back Mac Grealy won the race to
\ntouch down a loose ball and Tizzano grabbed a second from the more unusual spot
\non the wing.<\/p>\n
Reds winger Tim Ryan grabbed a five pointer in between the
\nForce pair with Force fly-half Max Burey and Reds No.9 Louis Werchon slotting
\ntwo conversions apiece.<\/p>\n
The fixture was the club\u2019s first-ever zero2hero Charity Game
\nwith the Force and the WA-based youth mental health charity having come
\ntogether with a three-year partnership.<\/p>\n
But there was no charity given by either side in an often
\ngruelling battle.<\/p>\n
Both sides had early opportunities with the Force probing
\nthrough the midfield in the opening salvos.<\/p>\n
They were unstructured at times, when they held possession
\nand territory had the Reds under pressure, but should have capitalised on a
\ncouple of chances.<\/p>\n
The visitors fired a couple of warnings of their own,
\nshowing how dangerous they could be on the quick break.<\/p>\n
The Force were happy to go to the set piece and turned down
\na couple of early penalties, going to touch instead.<\/p>\n
And on queue, from a rolling maul on six minutes, Tizanno
\nemerged from under a pile of bodies with the ball. Converted by Burey.<\/p>\n
The Reds replied 15 minutes later when captain Harry Wilson
\nstormed through the middle, was somehow stopped by Grealy, but after a couple
\nof phases backrower Brial went over.<\/p>\n
They then had back-to-back penalties of their own close to
\nthe line, tapped twice but were well held out by the Force.<\/p>\n
When they looked certain to score Zac Lomax produced an
\nunbelievable tap-and catch-intercept to keep them out.<\/p>\n
The Reds then butchered a chance when centre Isaac Henry
\nknocked on over the line when it seemed easier to score.<\/p>\n
With plenty riding on the game, the Force needed to win more
\nof the contact battle after the break to get wingers Lomax and Dylan Pietsch
\ninto space.<\/p>\n
Pietsch nearly did it all on his with a tackle strip and
\ngreat run but the Force re-took the lead when a Hamish Stewart cross kick
\nsailed over Lomax and Ryan and Grealy was first to the touch down. Converted.<\/p>\n
The Reds stepped up the pressure and after a couple of
\npenalties and being held up over the line they went wide quickly where Ryan
\nstrolled over in the corner.<\/p>\n
The Force hit back with a multi-phase game, showing nice
\nhands to get the ball to space and waiting on the wing was Tizzano. The
\nconversion hit the post.<\/p>\n
The Force turned up the heat and scrum half Nathan Hastie
\nwas beaten by the bounce as he chased down a Nic Dolly kick, he was then unable
\nto grab a pass from barnstorming No.8 Vaiolini Ekuasi that would have put him
\nin the open.<\/p>\n
With points at premium the Force needed to tie down the game
\nand keep the visitors pinned behind their 22-metre line.<\/p>\n
But after 14 phases they gave away a penalty to give the
\nReds an escape route and only a last-ditch tackle out wide on Treyvon Pritchard
\nby Augustin Moyano stopped them stealing the game.<\/p>\n
In the dying seconds, desperate line defence, a break by
\nPeitsch, a penalty won by Kurtley Beale in his 185th appearance – taking him
\nequal with Aaron Smith for third most caps in competition history – a line-out
\nwin, a kick to touch and the Force claimed the points.<\/p>\n
Tickets are on sale now for the Force’s next home game in Kids Round against the Fijian Drua on Saturday 16 May 5:35pm via Ticketmaster. Book here.<\/a><\/p>\nWestern Force 19<\/p>\n
Tries: Tizzano (6′,54′), Grealy (43′),<\/p>\n
Conversions: Burey 2\/3<\/p>\n
Penalties: Nil<\/p>\n
Queensland Reds 14<\/p>\n
Tries: Brial (19′), Ryan (50′).<\/p>\n
Conversions: Werchon 2\/2.<\/p>\n
Penalties: Nil<\/p>\n
Crowd: 6,203 @ HBF Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force are hanging on to their dream of a maiden finals series after a fighting 19-14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,28899],"class_list":["post-444795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}