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| Red card Scuttles Sharks | |||||||
| The Dargaville Ford Western sharks chances of victory over Hikarangi were scuttled by the red carding of their number eight Regan Walters ten minutes before halftime, for a seemingly innocuous tackle. | |||||||
| Reduced to fourteen men for the rest of this match played under lights at R.D.1 Park Dargaville last Thursday night, effectively nullified the competitiveness of the game. That they were able to be in contention, only down 8-3 up until a few minutes from fulltime, when Hikarangi scored their second try for a 15-8 victory, speaks volumes for the efforts of the seven man Sharks pack. Though often under pressure from a useful visiting eight, well led by flanker Aaron Wright, the sharks did well in lineouts, thanks to the efforts of Solomone Paul and in particular Aaron Lambly, and flanker David Pulman who had his best outing of the season. | |||||||
| Halfback Hayden Andrews came through a torrid match with credit, and quicksilver fullback Phil Langdon looked extra dangerous every time he received the ball, but the sharks backline suffered generally from a lack of go forward ball. Roger Rowse kicked a long-range penalty for the Sharks points. | |||||||
| �A raft of young players showed they have stepped up to the mark admirably when the Morfett Autos Western sharks reserve team drew 12-12 with Hikarangi in a rousing curtainrasier, the visitors relying on four penalty goals to tie with the two tries, one converted by the Sharks | |||||||
| This Saturday the sharks travel to Hora Hora. | |||||||
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