The Kiama Knights have secured a comfortable 24 – 6 victory over Nowra/Bomaderry Jets at the Nowra Showground on Saturday.
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The Knights held a 16-nil lead over the home side at the break and in the second half Kiama seemed to ease up.
The Knights in the first half could do no wrong and produced a near perfect first 40 minutes.
The Jets, on the other hand, in the first half were far from perfect. But showed some fight and determination in the second half.
The Jets pushed the Knights hard all the way in the second term and had a few more passes stuck, the home side could had gone close to beating the Knights.
The Jets mentor Dwayne Connors got stuck into the Knights physically and showed skill to set up his team’s only try of the match.
Midway in the second half the Jets were looking good and starting to get on top but just could not do any damage on the scoreboard.
Connors decided a chip over the top was the go and his deft kick, which he regathered, led to Mark Brandon scoring out wide.
This made the score 18 – 6 and then the Jets made the cardinal rugby league sin of not getting to your kick once you put points on the board which pretty much summed up their day.
Another concerning aspect for the Jets was that Kiama second rower, Kieran Poole, scored two tries, including the first one of the match, out wide and virtually on the same blade of grass.
On that performance it looks like the Jets will be doing some defensive drills at training this week, although all is not gloom and doom for the Jets with many of the team’s players getting close to hitting their best form.
Youngsters Zac Blattner and Tyson Simpson are playing with great maturity, while the bruise brothers Zac Kershaw and Ben Lahene made heaps of block-busting runs.
Jets fullback/winger Steve Brandon made many strong runs from dummy half and his frustration, at not being allowed to get a quick play-the-ball, was noticeable.
Centre Matt Cornell had a great game for the Knights, five-eighth Blake Rickard was all class, prop Cam Whittaker did a heaps of work and Poole was close to being the best player on the field.
In another blow to the Jets, fleet-of-foot back Issac Mumberson was taken from the field just before half-time with an elbow injury.