North Queensland have held on in an NRLW thriller to beat the luckless Wests Tigers 24-22 and keep within the race for the finals.
Within the day’s different conflict, Canberra scuppered St George Illawarra’s top-four hopes with a sea-sawing 38-34 win.
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In Townsville, the Tigers had been aiming to interrupt a 13-game dropping streak.
However the Cowboys, with a -37 factors differential, moved to eight competitors factors with victory and equal-second with Brisbane, the Sydney Roosters and Newcastle – who all have a recreation in hand.
The boot North Queensland half Kirra Dibb, who landed 4 from 4, proved the distinction with the Tigers scoring 5 tries to 4.
Goalkicker Pauline Piliae-Rasabale had a poor afternoon with the boot and landed only one from 5 for the Tigers, together with a comparatively simple kick within the 66th minute that may have tied the scores after playmaker Losana Lutu crashed over for a late attempt.
The Tigers trailed 18-4 within the forty fourth minute however performed razzle dazzle soccer to attain three tries in 9 minutes.
Debutant No.6 Evie McGrath bought the ball rolling when she grubber kicked for herself earlier than Rikeya Horne and Rebecca Pollard completed sweeping actions.
McGrath had one other attempt disallowed which might have put the Tigers forward.
The Cowboys regained the lead with a attempt to Jetaya Faifua after winger Lavinia Tauhalaliku made a 70m burst.
The Tigers had been camped on North Queensland’s line for the ultimate minute and went inside a whisker of pulling off a shocking upset.
The hosts opened the scoring from a scrum play with halves Dibb and Tahlulah Tillett combining to ship Tauhalaliku over within the nook.
Dibb, who has been in sensational kind, threw a silky brief ball to place centre Jakiya Whitfeld right into a gap and provides her aspect a 12-0 lead.
The guests had been the higher aspect from that time onwards however their lack of targets stored the Cowboys in it.
In Sydney, Raiders prop Grace Kemp bulldozed over the Dragons to guide her aspect to simply their second win of 2024.
Canberra nearly contrived to lose their fourth match from in entrance this season.
An Alexis Tauaneai double took the sport away from the guests, who misplaced Kere Matua to the sin bin for an ungainly hip-drop sort out on Madison Mulhall.
However a rousing show from the immense Kemp sparked a late comeback to silence the 5579-strong Jubilee Stadium crowd.
Trailing 28-16 and with momentum in opposition to them, the NSW State of Origin star stormed by the centre of the Dragons’ defence.
Halfback Ash Quinlan scored quickly after, the primary of a six-minute three-try blitz – which included four-pointers to Kemp and winger Madison Bartlett – to place the Raiders in entrance for the second time within the match.
Kemp and Bartlett had earlier scored within the first half, together with Shakiah Tungai, to offer Canberra a 16-4 lead.
Bartlett’s brace put her on the highest of the try-scoring ladder with seven tries.
Hulking ahead Amelia Pasikala wrapped up the end result after a Kemp offload, earlier than Teagan Berry introduced up her brace with a late comfort attempt.
The loss all-but ends the Dragons’ finals hopes, who slipped under the Raiders into ninth on factors differential, with either side on 4 factors.
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