Round 15 (v Storm) Teams & Stories

[Granty]

U20's

STORM V COWBOYS

DATE: Saturday 21st June
VENUE: Olympic Park
TIME: Gates open at 5:00pm, kick off 5:15pm.


Melbourne Storm

1. Michael Faamausili
2. Mack Fawcett
3. Sam Joe
4. Joseph Tomane
5. Trent Walker
6. Luke Kelly
7. Liam Foran
8. Vili Faingaa
9. James Woolford
10. Louis Fanene
11. Kevin Proctor
12. Lucas Miller ©
13. Zeb Tawha

14. Gareth Widdop
15. Ryan Hansen
16. Pulou Vaituutuu
17. Theo Stuart


Cowboys

1 Tom Humble
2 Obe Gela
3 Brandon Boor
4 Sam Bowie
5 Steven Beaumont
6 Ray Thompson
7 Brady Payne
8 Josh Land
9 Ryan Carr
10 Ben Spina
11 Jack Cooper
12 Chris Faust
13 Nick Slyney

14 Joel Lillyman
15 Tyson Martin
16 Leo Faagutu
17 Chris Riesen
18 Shaun Maloney


Match Officials

Referee: Chris James
Sideline Officials: Nathan Hill, Melissa Yates

[Dream]

Cowboys won 14 - 10

[CC]

It's amazing what a win can do

[Granty]

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/06/23/14138_cowboys.html

Under-20s hanging on to semi-final hopes

JOSH ALSTON

23Jun08

A SOLID defensive effort in the second half has seen the Cowboys under-20s hold off Melbourne to post their second successive win and lift them off the bottom of the Toyota Cup ladder.

North Queensland withstood a barrage of attacking raids in the second quarter, holding just a 14-6 lead.

But aside from allowing a try to Malo Feterika in the dying minutes of the game to bring up the 14-10 final score, they were watertight on their line.

The win has allowed the Cowboys to leapfrog the Roosters into 15th place after spending the most of the season anchoring the ladder.

Five-eighth Ray Thompson linked perfectly with halfback Brady Payne and praised his forwards' efforts in laying the platform for the win.

"(Our defence) is pretty good, the boys have been working hard on it so it's good to get the reward," he said.

"It's something we've been working on, our defence, and the boys take pride in it.

"The forwards deserve a big rap for that."

While talk of making the finals may seem fanciful, Thompson said the players had not written their chances off yet.

They will likely need to win all of their remaining encounters to be any chance of slipping into the eight, but Thompson said they were taking it one game at a time.

"We've talked about it but we're just taking it a game at a time, just keep chopping away at it and hopefully we'll find ourselves there," he said.

"We'll just take on South Sydney next week and hopefully we'll get a result there too.

"It will be a good chance to even it up, we took that into this game against (Melbourne) too and hopefully we can do that against Souths."