Country make it four 27/06/2010
ROCKHAMPTON Leagues Club Comets coach Wayne Barnett has guided the XXXX Country side to its fourth straight victory in the annual City vs Country match on Saturday.
Along with Barnett, the Country side included two Comets’ players, lock Tyron Haynes and dummy half Ian Webster.
Both players performed exceptionally well with Haynes scoring his side’s final try of the match.
But it was Country halfback Daly Cherry-Evans who was the star of the show.
Cherry-Evans put forward a strong case for higher representative honours following his man-of-the-match performance in the clash against XXXX City at Gympie.
Cherry-Evans scored a great individual try in the second-half and combined superbly with skipper Brad Davis to guide Country to a comfortable 20-12 victory.
“His experience is just phenomenal and it makes my job a lot easier,” Cherry-Evans said of Davis.
After guiding Country to their fourth-straight win over City, Cherry-Evans is tipped to gain selection in the Queensland Residents team to play NSW Residents in a curtain-raiser to State of Origin III in Sydney on Wednesday week.
“This is my first senior rep side. I’d be really happy to go to the next level,” Cherry-Evans said.
Despite losing winger Obe Geia to injury, Country always appeared to be in control against a City team that tried hard all day but never really fired with the ball in hand.
Tries from Clint Amos and Shannon Walker saw Country go into the half-time break leading 10-0.
City breathed some life into the contest with a 90m intercept try to Josefa Davui shortly after half-time.
But when Cherry-Evans scored after a stroke of luck from a grubber kick, Country was back in control at 14-6.
XXXX COUNTRY 20 (Tyron Haynes, Clint Amos, Daly Cherry-Evans, Shannon Walker tries; Justin Hunt, Brad Davis goals) def XXXX CITY 12 (Josefa Davui, Brendon Gibb tries; Brett Kelly, Matt Seamark goals) at Albert Park, Gympie
Story and photo courtesy of the Queensland Rugby League & Warren Keir, SMP IMAGES
