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A plucky Cottesloe took it to the wire against Palmyra before going down in the last minute of the game to lose 18 to 20.
Palmyra seconds thirds and fifths had handsome wins while colts and sixths went down against Cott and Uni respectively.
Being involved with the sixths at another venue I only got to see the second half of premier grade. Cott. lead 11 to 3 at half time and soon increased their lead to 18 to 3 with converted try. Though Cott did a lot of attacking for the next 15 minutes they were unable to breach the Palmyra line again due to some solid defence and finally Palmyra converted a penalty and then scored a converted try to bring the score up to 13/18 where it remained until the last two minutes of the game. Jerry Viriki finally took the bull by the horns and smashed his way through for a try in the last two minutes of the game to bring the score to 18 all. The conversion was made by Jason Burke and the referee blew his whistle shortly afterwards.
Without taking too much away from Cottesloe's determined efforts, Palmyra missed 6 of their frontline premier grade players but the good news is that they will be back next week and in addition Luke Doherty and Matt Hodgson will also be available for Palmyra against Nedlands . This promises to be the match of the round.