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Centre Compton Purcell’s stunning late try was consolation only as the One New Zealand Warriors went down to Penrith in Sunday’ second-round SG Ball Cup match at HA Laybutt Field in Sydney.
The contest was well gone with the Panthers leading 28-4 with six minutes to go when the 18-year-old St Paul’s College product provided a memorable closing statement.
Hitting a short ball from standoff Noah Jensen on his own 30-metre line, Compton burst through one defender, shrugged off another, burned off a third with his pace and then shoved out a lethal fend on the last man in his way on a withering 70-metre run to the line.
Disappointingly what was a wonderful try served only to slightly reduce the damage on the scoreboard as Penrith won 28-8.
The home side had scored first before the One New Zealand Warriors reacted with a sweet left edge attack, Isaiah Savea’s long dummy half pass creating room for halves Jensen and Maui Winitana-Patelesio plus fullback Meihana Pauling to give winger Connor Bowden a try 12 minutes into his SG Ball Cup debut.
Match: Panthers v Warriors
Round 2 -
home Team
Panthers
away Team
Warriors
Venue: HE Laybutt Field, Sydney
The Panthers, though, began to assert themselves with two more tries before halftime and two in the 52nd and 58th minutes to go 28-4 ahead and kill off any chance of the visitors staging a recovery.
The Warriors play on New Zealand soil for the first time this week when they face Canterbury Bankstown in the curtain raiser to the club’s NRL Preseason Challenge against Melbourne at FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton on Saturday.
