QUEENSLAND U 17 v NSW

U17 QLD v NSW: After a brilliant try to Chris Sandow opened the scoring, two intercept tries to NSW allowed the Blues to lead 16-14 at halftime. In the second half Qld were just too good for NSW, who lost 5 players from the team after an incident at Sydney Airport, to power away to a 42-16 victory.
Queensland U17 42 (Chris Sandow 2, Ben Jones, Israel Folau, Michael Cummins, Joel Romelo, Kevin Proctor, Billy Rogers tries; Chris Sandow 4, Galu Te'o goals) def NSW U17 16 (William Isa, Mitchell Pearce, Daniel Mortimer tries; Daniel Mortimer 2 goals)

Several regular Colts players have been named in the U17 Qld team to play NSW in the main curtain-raiser to State of Origin II on June 14. These players will be unavailable for their Clubs this weekend, and will have an opposed training run against the Qld SOO side at Quad Park on Saturday afternoon. The team (Regular Colts players in yellow):
1.  Chris Sandow (Souths-Logan)
2.  Galu Te’o (South East)
3.   Ben Jones (South East)
4.   Israel Folau (Norths)
5.   Michael Cummins (South East)
6.   Ben Cronin (Wynnum-Manly)
7.   Luke Capewell (Norths)
8.   Zac Henrickson  (Sunshine Coast)
9.   Joel Romelo (Redcliffe)
10. David Hala (Redcliffe)
11. Kevin Proctor (Southern)
12.  Travis Marshall (Central)
13.  Shaun Cotter (Wynnum-Manly)
INTERCHANGE
14.  Martin Kennedy (Southern)
15.  Fred Tila (South East)
16.  Billy Rogers (Wide Bay)
17.  Gerard Tibbetts (South East)
Coach: Gary GRIENKE

NSW U17
1. Zoram Watene - Penrith
2. Dominic Peryoux - Sydney Roosters rep by 19. Luke Towers
3. William Isa - Penrith
4. Chase Stanley - St George rep by 20. Ray Tafokitau
5. Ryan Lamb - Newcastle
6. Mitchell Pearce - Sydney Roosters c
7. Michael Picker - Canberra
8. Todd Grace - CRL
9. Lancen Joudo - Penrith
10. Illija Radan - Manly
11. Nathan Dib - Bulldogs
12. Jason Baitieri - Parramatta rep by 14. Zac Merritt
13. Jason Clarke - South Sydney
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14. Zac Merritt - CRL rep by 18. Daniel Mortimer
15. Fred Pakutoa - Cronulla rep by 24. Brock Molan
16. Ben Sione - Canberra rep by 25. Henry Vaotuua
17. Mitchell Calahane - Penrith
1/2/06
Wynnum showed they will be a force to be reckoned with in the FOGS Challenge with a 40-12 trial win over Aspley today. Admittedly Aspley were below strength and the game was a scrappy affair played in oppressive conditions, but the Wynnum side showed some flashes of brilliance in attack and were resolute in defence. U18 players Matt Smith and Luke Mehninnit shone for the winners between them scoring 18 points in the first half to set up a 22-0 lead to the home side at the break.  Converted tries to Alex Tallon and Steven Johnston brought the visitors back within 10 points early in the second half, but that would be as close as they would get, with Wynnum running away to win 40-12. U18 Players from last year's Brissie U17 comp on display were Alex T, Struddy, AJ and Vaughan Eriksen for Aspley, along with Scott Millar from Wide Bay, and Matt Smith and Mitchell Muir for Wynnum , along with Nathan Beckett  (WB) and Luke Menhinnit (Twba). Incidenttaly Jacob Fauid had a very good game in a losing side in the Qld Cup trial held this evening. Scorers: Wynnum 40 (M.Smith 2, B.Cronin, M.Aitkin, L.Menhinnit, C.McQueen, W.Jensen, R.Congoo tries, Menhinnit 4 goals) def Aspley 12 (A.Tallon, S.Johnston tries, Tallon 2 goals).
In other games Wests defeated a Norths side which did not play any of its storm contracted players 24-22, and Easts defeated Souths-Logan - score tba.