2023 Week 1 Pacific Championships - Teams and Game Day

[The Greenhouse]

49th min TRY COOK ISLANDS to Esom Ioka. Brad Takairangi kicks to the corner and the fullback makes a brilliant take and grounds it while diving over the line. No conversion.

Papua New Guinea 42-4

[The Greenhouse]

59th min TRY COOK ISLANDS to Steven Marsters. He kicks ahead, gets the perfect rebound and scores. Converted Ioka.

Papua New Guinea 42
Cook Islands 10

[The Greenhouse]

Arona cleared of a spinal fracture, so that's very good news.

[The Greenhouse]

71st min TRY PAPUA NEW GUINEA to hooker Rimbu, following a lost ball near half way. It looked like an obvious knock on from the Kumuls in the lead up. And so it proves to be. NO TRY. The Cook Islands ruled to have knocked on first.

[The Greenhouse]

77th min TRY PAPUA NEW GUINEA to Nene Macdonald, and that is his fourth of the match. Zac Laybutt can't convert from the sideline.

Papau New Guinea 46
Cook Islands 10

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MATCH REPORT: Nene scores four as Kumuls crush Cook Islands



Led by a four-try effort from Nene Macdonald, Papua New Guinea made a commanding start to their Pacific Championships campaign on Sunday afternoon by hammering the Cook Islands 46-10.

Macdonald's four tries at the National Football Stadium in Port Moresby set a new single game record for the Kumuls, while Cowboys young gun Zac Laybutt came up just short of equaling Rhyse Martin's record for most points in a game for PNG with an 18-point haul.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2023/10/15/nen ... k-islands/