Author : Andrew Dawson and Callum Dick Quest Newspapers

Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league

Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league Team of the Grand Finals – 20 of Queensland’s best rookies revealed after five youth grand finals.

The winning PBC SHS year 8 Renouf Shield side. Broncos Challenge Team of Grand Finals

We named the Team of the Grand Finals after the five 2021 Broncos Challenge schoolboy rugby league grand finals played over the last 48 hours.

On Tuesday Marsden SHS won the year 7 Broncos Old Boys Cup, while PBC claimed the year 8 Renouf Shield, then yesterday PBC SHS twice beat Keebra Park SHS (Hancock and Walters Cup) while Wavell won after the bell in the Langer reserves over Marsden SHS.

Matches were livestreamed by News Corp and featured among the best rising talent in the state.

PBC SHS Renouf Shield coach Geoff Eggart said it was a great win by his side to topple the benchmark outfit of the competition – Marsden SHS.

The Marsden State High year 7 rugby league side that won the Brisbane Broncos Old Boys grand final at Carina.

“We basically lost one game to Redcliffe the whole competition and Marsden have been the benchmark all year so we were just delighted to get the chocolates. They worked really hard,’’ Eggart said.

Marsden SHS Old Boys (year 7) competition coach Cameron Webb said it was a great team performance to finish off the season with a win over Ipswich SHS.

Nayten Iselin-Jansen with Mick De Vere from the Broncos.

“It was a team performance. There were a number of players who put up their hands. That was the real strength of his team – that there was 13 and not relying on one or two to get the job done. “They came together to work as a unit.’’

Marsden SHS beat Ipswich SHS well, but Ipswich still showed plenty of promise – according to our Ipswich reporter Daviid Lems who named their best players here.

Then yesterday Wavell SHS coach Mick Roberts, who has seen plenty in rugby league, was stunned to see his five-eight Nayten Iselin-Jansen field a drop kick restart 65m out as the full-time hooter sounded, and then score to break a 12-all deadlock.

Man of the match Marlie Barry of PBC with the great Matt Gillett of the Broncos.

Iselin-Jansen was the last to board the team bus after the match and was beaming like a boy about to sit on Santa’s lap.

Marsden SHS fullback Dom Sandow and Wavell SHS hooker Harri Sykes also shone in an all-star match, while Marsden pair Marley Lupeomanu and Jermaine Pangai impacted their side.

On the Gold Coast, PBC SHS were confirmed as the 2021 SEQ schoolboy champions with wins in the Hancock and Walters Cups – following last week’s NRL Schoolboys Cup win over Marsden SHS.

That made it four premierships for PBC SHS from six grand finals.

Yesterday in the Hancock Cup PBC SHS centre Sunny Karma was presented with the man of the match award, while Keebra Park SHS’s prop Micah Eteru and PBC SHS fullback Sam Stephenson also shone.

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In the Walters Cup PBC SHS’s Jaylan Taewa scored the go-ahead try in the second-half and was near-perfect from the tee, most from the sideline, in a great individual performance. One of his tries was set up by interchange player Reshawn Anderson.

The winning PBC SHS year 8 Renouf Shield side.

PBC SHS Zane Harrison made some early errors but his constant voice and playmaking presence in the middle of the park was key to PBC’s success, while Keebra Park centre Dorian Lotaki scored a great bustling try and shone for his side.Special mention for two players who narrowly missed our squad, Kallum Stacey-Weatherall (Wavell SHS Langer Reserves who was a Langer Trophy standard player, and Marsden SHS five-eighth Caleb Cresswell (Marsden SHS, year 7) who sparked his team.

The winning Wavell SHS team.

Team of the Grand Finals

1. Dom Sandow (Marsden, Langer reserves)

2. Dorian Lotaki (Keebra Park SHS, year 10)

3. Chris Vaimili (Marsden SHS, year 7)

4. Sunny Karma (PBC SHS, year 9)

5. Jonah Harris (PBC SHS year 8)

6. Nayten Iselin-Jansen (Wavell SHS, Langer reserves)

7. ZJ Watene (Marsden SHS, year 7)

8. Micah Eteru (Keebra Park SHS, year 9)

9. Jaylan Naleba (Ipswich SHS, year 7)

10. Marlie Barry (PBC SHS year 8)

11. Jaylan Taewa (PBC SHS, year 10)

12. Storm Enoka (Marsden SHS, year 7)

13. Brodie Saunders (PBC SHS, year 8)

14. Sam Stephenson (PBC SHS, year 9

15. Kwinn Wolf (PBC SHS, year 8)

16. Reece Gorman (Marsden SHS, year 8)

17. Mace Andrew (PBC SHS, year 8)

18. Harri Sykes (Wavell SHS, year 12)

19. Brendon Bruce (Ipswich SHS, year 7)

20. TJ Sauaso (Ipswich SHS year 7).

On Wednesday, www.couriermail.com.au, the Gold Coast Bulletin and regional News Corp will livestream the Phil Hall Cup state grand final between Palm Beach Currumbin SHS and St Brendan’s College Yeppoon, who beat Kirwan SHS in the Payne Cup grand final.

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September 15 (Redcliffe Dolphins)

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3.30pm: St Brendan’s v Palm Beach Currumbin SHS

Karen Murphy grand final:

2.30pm: Out of Kirwan SHS, Shalom College, Ipswich SHS, Keebra Park SHS

NRL Schoolboys Cup Qld grand final:

1.30pm: St Augustine’s v Lockyer District

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WATCH THE REPLAYS: It’s a double derby delight in the Hancock and Walters Cup grand finals as two of Gold Coast’s greatest sporting rivals playoff in the schoolboy rugby league title deciders. Watch it all live here.

IT’S a double derby delight in the Hancock and Walters Cup grand finals as two of Gold Coast’s greatest sporting rivals playoff in the schoolboy rugby league title deciders.

Palm Beach Currumbin SHS and Keebra Park SHS will take to Pizzey Park in Miami to play in the Hancock Cup grand final at 2pm and Walters Cup grand final at 3pm.

All the action will be livestreamed right here by the gold coast bulletin, courier mail and news’ affiliates.

PBC V KEEBRA PARK WALTERS CUP

Watch Palm Beach Currumbin SHS take on Keebra SHS in the year 10 NRL Walters Cup grand final.

A dominant second half has lifted Palm Beach Currumbin to a 24-12 victory over fierce Gold Coast rivals Keebra Park in the Year 10 Walters Cup grand final at Pizzey Park.

PBC winger Ray Puru bagged a double as the red and white overcame a sluggish end to the first half to dominate their longtime Coast rivals.

From the outset Palm Beach showed intent to play fast and up the middle, with halfback Zane Harrison vocal in shifting his troops around the park.

It took 10 minutes, but PBC found its deserved first points on a shifting play to the right edge, putting winger Ray Puru into an acre of space and an easy try followed.

Clearly stunned early, Keebra got its first look at the line 10 minutes out from halftime following a PBC error. Three plays after the scrum feed, impressive centre Dorian Lotaki hit back for the maroon and blue with a bullocking run between legs on the left edge.

With Keebra’s try came a massive momentum swing and they were in again not long after, though not without controversy. Keebra looked to have lost the ball close to the line, but the referee ruled play on and on the next play later Isaiah Fagalilo was over to score.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it was the response from PBC, who went to the same scrum play that produced the opening try, for the same result. Donovan Creedence races to the outside and passes for Puru to bag his second and cut the Keebra lead back to two points, where it stayed to halftime.

Experienced PBC halfback Harrison with a tough start to the second-half, dropping the kick-off and then kicking out on the full two minutes later.

But a player of his calibre is never down for long and, alongside halves partner Ra-Koia Smith, he pulls the string for a trio of repeat attempts at the Keebra line.

Keebra’s bend-don’t-break defence stands up to yet another PBC push, with a would-be PBC try waved way for a forward pass on the left edge.

But Keebra’s want for possession continues, with a changeover at midfield not long after and PBC on the attack once again.

Incredibly, despite PBC’s dominance in possession it’s Keebra that still holds a slender two-point advantage with 12 minutes to play in the final, leading PBC to take the two and level the scores after another failed attacking raid.

But the two wouldn’t stay level for long, with bustling bench back-rower Reshawn Anderson playing provider for Jaylan Taewa and PBC had its deserved six-point lead with as many minutes to play.

Having barely ventured into attacking territory in the second half, Keebra wastes a rare foray forward with a pass to ground from dummy half.

That would prove the dagger two plays later, with side-stepping rake Will Saunders darting through the Keebra defence and diving under the posts to seal the deal with two minutes remaining.

Winger Jacob Morton was gifted the icing on the cake on full time when a great shifting play found him on the left edge to cap a stellar 30-12 win for PBC.

KEEBRA PARK 12

TRIES : D. Lotaki, I. Fagalilo
GOALS : D. Lotaki 2/2 goals)

PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN 30

TRIES : R. Puru 2, J. Taewa, W. Saunders, J. Morton
GOALS : J. Taewa 5/6

PBC V KEEBRA PARK HANCOCK TROPHY

Watch the replay of Palm Beach Currumbin SHS taking on Keebra SHS in the NRL Hancock Cup year 9 grand final.

Palm Beach Currumbin has come from behind to an impressive 16-12 victory over Keebra Park in the Year 9 Hancock Trophy grand final at Pizzey Park on Wednesday.

In an end-to-end final between the two fierce Gold Coast rivals, it was the smaller but defensively dominant PBC pack that won the day.

Wrecking ball Micah Eteru looked to have opened the scoring for Keebra in the early stages when he barged his way through multiple defenders to the line, only to be held up by some desperate PBC defence.

But that same defence was at sixes and sevens minutes later when a deft kick to the posts landed in the lap of Tyrel Laban and the number 11 crashed over for the opening score.

Possession changed hands at a rapid pace for the next few minutes as the grand final nerves hit both sides.

PBC recovered first after being gifted field position by a Keebra error, and big lock Robert Lee crashed over on the right to level proceedings with 10 minutes to play in the first half.

Suddenly it’s PBC with all the play and if not for a stunning high take from Keebra fullback Disharne Tonihi, would have been in again on the left.

With time expiring Keebra looked destined to take a lead into halftime, with repeat efforts at the line repelled time and again by the PBC defence.

Enter PBC fullback Sam Stephenson, with a deft show and go through the Keebra line on the halftime hooter to put the red and white ahead 12-6 at the break.

Perfect start for Keebra to the second-half, with a PBC knock-on from the kick-off gifting a guilt edged chance to level the scores.

But like clockwork, the PBC defence is up to task – repelling two waves before a shallow kick is well intercepted and Keebra left with little to show for the effort.

The PBC winger guilty of the earlier knock-on more than makes up for it in the ensuing play, when latching onto a kick across field and outstripping his fellow number five to put down and extend the lead out to 16-6.

Desperately needing a response to stay in the final, Keebra finds it in young Nash Kerr, who with a deft spin move beats two tacklers and dives over under the posts to cut the margin back to four points.

Sensing the opportunity Keebra pressed forward again, with Eteru once more going inches from scoring. The resolute PBC defence holds firm and with 10 minutes to play, it’s the red and white with the narrow advantage.

With seven minutes to play PBC forces a dropout and appears ready to strike the killer blow. Instead, Keebra winger Joseph Tupese produces a smart one-on-one steal on the return to flip the script and propel his side back into attack.

Inside two minutes and needing a go-ahead score, Keebra looked in for all money in the right corner only for the winger to, again, be taken into touch at the corner post.

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A turnover at midfield handed Keebra one last chance to draw level, but the red and white defence that all day had proved the difference again held firm, leaving PBC to run out four-point victors.

KEEBRA PARK 12

TRIES : T.Laban, N. Kerr
GOALS : A. Whaiupu 2/2

PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN 16

TRIES : R. Lee, S. Stephenson, B. Tighe
GOALS : H. Chadburn 2/3

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