Souths, Brisbane lead league
South Sydney and Brisbane retained their co-leadership of the New South Wales rugby league premiership yesterday.
While Brisbane was comfortably accounting for North Sydney, 36-10, at North Sydney Oval, Souths was engaged in a tight contest with the defending champion, Canter-bury-Bankstown, at Belmore Sports Grounds. After trailing 0-2 at the interval, Souths went ahead when Wayne Chisholm scored soon after the resumption and clinched a 10-2 victory thanks to a late try to Ross Harrington. They are two competition points ahead of Canberra and Penrith, which both had decisive wins during the weekend. Canberra humbled St George and Penrith dominated Balmain.
Newcastle kept up its promising challenge by beat-
ing Parramatta, 10-6, at Parramatta Stadium. Michael Hagan consigned Parramatta to its third successive loss with his try just before fulltime.
On Saturday night Gold Coast won a high-scoring encounter with Eastern Suburbs at Tweed Heads. Yesterday Manly-Warringah beat Western Suburbs and CronullaSutherland was too strong for Illawarra.
Results: Newcastle 10, Parramatta 6; Manly 14, Wests 2; Gold Coast 34, Easts 20; Canberra 42, St George 4; Souths 10, Canterbury 2; Brisbane 36, Norths 10; Cronulla 26, Illawarra 6; Penrith 28, Balmain 8. Points: Souths 12, Brisbane 12, Canberra 10, Penrith 10, Parramatta 8, Canterbury 8, Balmain 8, Newcastle 8, Cronulla 8, Easts 6, St George 6, Norths 4, Manly 4, Gold Coast 4, Wests 2. Illawarra 0
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Press, 1 May 1989, Page 30
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