The Warriors w\u0101hine clawed their way back into the contest only to fall agonisingly short in a 18-16 defeat to the Gold Coast Titans in Wagga Wagga.<\/p>\n
The second loss of the NRL-W season for the Kiwi side came down to a dramatic finish in the Magic Round clash.<\/p>\n
The Warriors remain the top four for now, with undefeated Broncos topping the table. Gold Coast cemented third place with the win.<\/p>\n
Down 18-0 with 16 minutes remaining, the Warriors unlocked their attacking flair, much of it down to Mele Hufanga on the left side.<\/p>\n
The comeback began with the Kiwi Ferns star who charged onto a ball form former Broncos teammate Gayle Brougton to score her first try as a Warrior.<\/p>\n
Hufanga’s try was followed by Ivana Lauitiiti who was next in the scoring action, before Stacey Waaka came through pulling in an incredibly high kick to score in the corner.<\/p>\n
Pushing for a late try, the Warriors were stopped by the clock, held back by relentless Titans defence.<\/p>\n
Earlier Gold Coast hit the front with Ivana Lolesio outpacing the Kiwi defenders to chase down the grubber kick for their first try.<\/p>\n
Back rower Evania Isa’ako busting through scored before the break with 24-year-old Indie Bostok scoring just after halftime.<\/p>\n
Next round the Warriors host the Knights in Hamilton.<\/p>\n
See how the action unfolded with our live blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors w\u0101hine clawed their way back into the contest only to fall agonisingly short in a 18-16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}