Burleigh Bears vs Mackay Cutters
SUNDAY, 26 MAY 2013 2:00PM (local time) PIZZEY PARK
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Burleigh Bears vs Mackay Cutters
SUNDAY, 26 MAY 2013 2:00PM (local time) PIZZEY PARK
Burleigh Bears
1 T Chadburn .
2 D Kerr .
3 J Anderson .
4 J Stuart .
5 S Michaels .
6 J Dowling .
7 J Grant .
8 L Page .
9 S Meskell .
10 D Griffiths .
11 L Fanene .
12 T Haynes .
13 S Gray .
14 D Kerr .
15 J Judge .
16 N Harrold .
17 B Morrison
Mackay Cutters
1 L Taylor .
2 B Faraimo .
3 C Rona .
4 T Martin .
5 D Milne .
6 D Murphy .
7 M Minto
8 J Clinton .
9 A Mitchell .
10 S Hoare .
11 D Webster .
12 C Gesch .
13 J Bobongie .
14 C Grevsmuhl .
15 K Nielsen .
16 K Davies .
17 T Andrews
BURLEIGH BEARS v MACKAY CUTTERS
Pizzey Park on Sunday, May 26 - 2pm
Referee: Michael Gordon
Head to Head: Mackay 6 Burleigh 4
Twitter: #intrustsupercup #ISC #BEARSvMC
With a comfortable round 10 win under their belts and the support of the home crowd behind them, the Burleigh Bears will aim to claim a win against one of the competition?s top teams when they host Mackay this Sunday. The Bears scored seven tries in their 38-20 win over the Sunshine Coast but will go into this game missing a number of their try-scorers. Classy back Anthony Don and forward Mark Ioane are set to play for the Titans, while fullback Jordan Rankin is out with injury. Tyler Chadburn will wear the number 1 jersey with Nick Harrold coming on to the bench and Jamie Anderson into the centres. The Cutters will be strengthened by the return of Anthony Mitchell at hooker. Mitchell was forced to pull out of last weekend?s match against Souths Logan, after injuring his shoulder in warm-up drills. Kalifa Faifai Loa has not been named this week, with Tyson Martin moving in to start at centre, while triple try-scorer last weekend Jason Taumalolo has been named on an extended Cowboys bench. The Cutters will show their support for the 10th birthday of Mackay's Relay for Life to be held at Slade Point, and will wear purple socks for the match.
QRL Media tips: Mackay Cutters by 8. Although Burleigh showed improvement last weekend, the Cutters might be a little too slippery.
Seagulls score big win over Sea Eagles
It was a mixed weekend for the iSelect Titans feeder clubs with Tweed Heads Seagulls scoring a big win over Sunshine Coast but Burleigh suffering a heavy loss to Mackay.
On the back of a near flawless first half performance the Seagulls ran out convincing winners 44-24 over the Sea Eagles in their round 11 Intrust Super Cup clash at Piggabeen oval.
Running into the breeze in the first half, Tweed were first to score through prop Josh Coyle barging over next to the posts, before a Sunshine Coast error just metres out from their own line ended with a try to Seagulls fullback Shaun Carney to put Tweed out to a 12-nil lead early on.
The rest of the first half was largely one way traffic as tries to Blair, Binge, Hijaziand debutant Michael Burgess on the back of some brilliant play from the Tweed halves had the home side flying at 34-0 at the main break.
Whatever Sea Eagles coach David Cordwell said in the sheds had thedesired effect, as a renewed Sunshine Coast scored sixteen points in the first eight minutes of the second half to raise hopes of a miracle comeback.
However an intercept try to Tweed flyer Ali Hijazi against the run of play in the 54th minute and a disallowed four pointersoon after ended the Sea Eagles slim chances, with the home side eventually winning by a comfortable margin.
In the winning sheds Tweed coach Aaron Zimmerle was excited by his side?s strong showing singling out debutant and Man of the Match five-eighth Michael Burgess for special praise.
?Michael?s a kid that I have a lot of time for and I was lucky enough to coach him in the Colts? said Zimmerle.
?I always knew he was good enough?it?s always just been about waiting for the right opportunity.?
?Today he got that and grabbed it with both hands.?
Elsewhere Tweed captain Matt King put in his usual whole hearted performance, whilst the electric MarminBarba looked dangerous deputising for injured fullback Shaun Carney in the second half.
It was a different story for the Bears, who suffered a 42-24 loss at the hands of the Mackay Cutters at Pizzey Park on Sunday.
Lapses at the back end of each half cost the Bears in what was a closer contest than the final score line suggested.
In a rapid fire opening twenty minutes captain James Stuart scored a try and Steve Michaels bagged a double.
With the Cutters also scoring three tries of their own it was 16-all after just 20 minutes.
The tries didn?t flow as easily for either side after that but two Mackay tries in four minutes shortly before halftime put the Bears in a difficult position heading into the second half.
Burleigh spent much of the second half deep in Mackay territory and Dan Kerr managed to pick up a double, but in the end the Bears couldn?t make up for the damage done by their brief lapse late in the first half.
Two tries in the final five minutes saw the final margin blow out to 18.
?Like in every game this year we competed, but today showed us the difference between the top half of the competition and the bottom half of the competition. Lapses in concentration get punished and they?ve punished ours today,? Bears coach Carl Briggs said.
?We?ve more than matched them - we opened them up a lot of times to be honest ? but you?ve got to defend as well and at times we didn?t do that well enough today.
?The tries that separated us at the end of the day came down to our own lapses in concentration.?
Briggs praised the performance of Darren Griffiths who was outstanding in the front row against his former club.
Next Sunday the Bears hit the road up to Dolphin Oval to take on ninth placed Redcliffe whie the Seagulls take on Norths Devils.
TWEED HEADS SEAGULLS 44 (Ali Hijazi 2, Shaun Carney, Michael Burgess, Josh Coyle, Matt King, Cory Blair, Chris Binge tries; Brad Lees 6 goals) def SUNSHINE COAST SEA EAGLES 24 (Callum Klein 2, Kevin McKenzie, Rowan Klein, Jordan Meads tries; Ryan Hansen 2 goals) at Piggabeen Sports.
MACKAY CUTTERS 42 (Curtis Rona 2, Liam Taylor, Bureta Faraimo, Tyson Martin, Clint Greenshields, Kalifa Faifai Loa, Dean Webster tries Liam Taylor 5 goals) def BURLEIGH BEARS 24 (Steve Michaels 2, Dan Kerr 2, James Stuart tries J Rankin 2 goals)