Knights lose the winning feeling
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 6, 2008
After winning five from five the previous week, the Knights
could not crack it for a win in any grade at the weekend.
The Eels pipped Newcastle 24-23 in extra time in the NRL game at
Parramatta Stadium on Friday, having beaten the Knights 18-10 in
the National Youth Competition curtain-raiser.
Parramatta backed up the next day by thrashing the previously
unbeaten Knights 50-10 in Harold Matthews (under 16s) and 24-22 in
SG Ball (under 18s) in the NSW Rugby League junior representative
games at The Gardens.
The Central Newcastle Knights suffered their first loss of the
NSW Cup competition on Saturday, going down 44-18 to Auckland
Vulcans at Henham Park.
Knights operations manager Warren Smiles said prop Mitchell
Sargent continued to make steady progress in his second game back
after a double bout of pneumonia in the pre-season.
“Sarge got through plenty of minutes, and him and Mark Taufua
went well up front for us,” Smiles said.
“[Centre] Junior Sau came off a bit early with a tight hamstring
but that was mainly precautionary. Apart from that there were no
real injury dramas.”
Newcastle Herald
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