NRC results, highlights and ladder: Round 2

30th August, 2015

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The country boys are doing battle on Thursday night NRC. (Photo: Josh Brightman Balanced Image Studio)

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30th August, 2015

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Another round in the National Rugby Championship has passed us by, and we again saw some tremendous running play on show.

We had the first changeover in the Horan-Little Shield, with Melbourne Rising losing the first game in their history in regular season play, going down to Brisbane City.

City are looking ominous, as are the Sydney Stars who strung together plenty of tried on their way to a half century.

Here are the full results and highlights from all the games over the weekend.

Sydney Stars v Queensland Country
Sydney Stars 50 (H Jones, H Clunies-Ross, T Robertson 2, J Gordon, D Hickey, M Philip tries; A Roberts 4, J McGregor cons) defeated Queensland Country 40 (I Perese 2, J Tuttle, S Greene, D Paia’aua tries; S Greene 5 cons)

Highlights

Melbourne Rising v Brisbane City
Brisbane City 45 (W Setu, J Laloifi, C Neville, S Talakai, S Kerevi, S Higginbotham tries; J McIntyre 5 cons) defeated Melbourne Rising 21(J Debreczeni, J Reid, F Vilitati tries; J Debreczeni 2 cons)
*Brisbane City win the Horan-Little Shield

Highlights

NSW Country Eagles v UC Vikings
UC Vikings 37 (L Taliauli, J Butler, I Thompson, N Ah Wong, R Perry tries; I Thompson 4 cons) defeated NSW Country Eagles 13 (M Baldwin, A Kellaway tries; J Lance 1 con)

Highlights

Perth Spirit v North Harbour Rays
North Harbour Rays 45 (J Holmes, A Northam, B Killingworth 2, L Hunting, H Rorke tries; S Lane 5 cons) defeated Perth Spirit 26 (R Hardwick 2, S Mocenacagi, M Konelio tries; A Nikoro, I Prior cons)

Highlights

2015 NRC Standings (after Round 2):
1 Brisbane City 9 points
2 Sydney Stars 8 pts
3 UC Vikings 5 pts
4 North Harbour Rays 4 pts
5. Melbourne Rising 4 pts
6. NSW Country Eagles 4 pts
7. Greater Sydney Rams 1 pt
8. Queensland Country 1 pt
9. Perth Spirit 0 pts

Sydney Stars take the ball forward

Boyd KILLINGWORTH on his way to score in the Perth Spirit vs North Harbour Rays round 2 2015 NRC at McGillivray Oval, Perth on Saturday 29th August 2015: Image by Johan Schmidt Photography

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