The Vikings set piece continued to look dominant and after another penalty from a scrum the Vikings kicked to the corner. Debreczeni made no mistake with the kick to make it 21-16. Lealiifano missed his first kick of the game and the score was 21-8 at halftime.įive minutes after the break the Rising were back in it when Dom Shipperley going over after some nice ball movement from the Melbourne side. It looked like that was how it would stay going into the half-time break until an individual piece of counter attacking brilliance from Aidan Toua led to a contender for try of the season in the corner for the fullback. The Vikings made their extra man in the scrum count as they were awarded a penalty try with five minutes to go in the half. With ten minutes to play in the second half the Vikings received a huge boost when Rising second rower Steve Cummins was sent to the bin for repeated infringements. He converted the try himself to level the scores up at 8-8. Only a couple of minutes later the Rising hit back with Jack Debreczeni selling a dummy and breaking a tackle to go over and score the Rising’s first try. Christian Lealiifano added the extras to make it 8-0 Vikings. The first 20 minutes of the game where as tight as can be, with neither side able to gain any momentum.ġ5 minutes before halftime the Vikings finally broke the deadlock with a trademark rolling maul try to captain Jarrad Butler. The forwards dominated the game for the Vikings, winning a number of scrum penalties and controlling the game with a dominant maul.Īidan Toua and Ita Vaea were the standouts for the home side, with Vaea taking home the man of the match. The victory was the Vikings sixth in a row and kept the side undefeated and up the top of the NRC Ladder. The UC Vikings have defeated the Melbourne Rising 42-16 in a clinical performance at Viking Park in Canberra.
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