Mitchell hurt as Reds sink Waratahs
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April 24, 2011, Sunday
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QUADE Cooper scored all 19 points as the Queensland Reds beat the New South Wales Waratahs 19-15 in a Super match blighted by a serious injury to Wallabies winger Drew Mitchell in Brisbane yesterday.
Television replays suggested 27-year-old Mitchell dislocated his right ankle in the 19th minute following a collision with Reds loose forward Scott Higginbotham.
The Waratahs had taken a 9-3 lead courtesy of Kurtley Beale's three penalties but a poor restart from Beale, after flyhalf Cooper's second penalty had made it 9-6, swung the momentum. The Reds used the resulting scrum on halfway as an attacking platform with Cooper ghosting into space as the Waratahs defensive line rushed up and he ran untouched to score close to the posts in the 35th minute.
He then did a spectacular cartwheel and back flip to celebrate, which given Mitchell's injury, would not have pleased watching Wallabies coach Robbie Deans.
Cooper converted the try and then added a drop goal after the halftime hooter sounded to send his side into the break with a 16-9 advantage.
Beale slotted his fourth penalty in the 47th to make it 16-12 and the Waratahs then spent the best part of 25 minutes camped on the Reds line and despite destroying the home side's scrum and hammering away at the tryline were somehow kept out.
Beale then kicked his fifth penalty to make it 16-15 before Cooper slotted his third penalty with two minutes remaining to give the Reds their seventh successive win and snap a seven-game losing streak against the Waratahs. The win kept Queensland on top of the overall competition table and with an 11-point lead over New South Wales in the Australian conference.
Earlier, winger James Paterson scored a try in each half as the Otago Highlanders surprised the Canterbury Crusaders 26-18 in Nelson, New Zealand.
Canterbury underestimated the Highlanders by fielding a second-string side and were punished as Otago rallied from 3-10 down to lead 15-13 at halftime, then hung on through a tense second half.
Paterson scored in the 30th and 41st as the Highlanders posted their seventh win from nine games while handing the Crusaders their second loss, also from nine matches.
Television replays suggested 27-year-old Mitchell dislocated his right ankle in the 19th minute following a collision with Reds loose forward Scott Higginbotham.
The Waratahs had taken a 9-3 lead courtesy of Kurtley Beale's three penalties but a poor restart from Beale, after flyhalf Cooper's second penalty had made it 9-6, swung the momentum. The Reds used the resulting scrum on halfway as an attacking platform with Cooper ghosting into space as the Waratahs defensive line rushed up and he ran untouched to score close to the posts in the 35th minute.
He then did a spectacular cartwheel and back flip to celebrate, which given Mitchell's injury, would not have pleased watching Wallabies coach Robbie Deans.
Cooper converted the try and then added a drop goal after the halftime hooter sounded to send his side into the break with a 16-9 advantage.
Beale slotted his fourth penalty in the 47th to make it 16-12 and the Waratahs then spent the best part of 25 minutes camped on the Reds line and despite destroying the home side's scrum and hammering away at the tryline were somehow kept out.
Beale then kicked his fifth penalty to make it 16-15 before Cooper slotted his third penalty with two minutes remaining to give the Reds their seventh successive win and snap a seven-game losing streak against the Waratahs. The win kept Queensland on top of the overall competition table and with an 11-point lead over New South Wales in the Australian conference.
Earlier, winger James Paterson scored a try in each half as the Otago Highlanders surprised the Canterbury Crusaders 26-18 in Nelson, New Zealand.
Canterbury underestimated the Highlanders by fielding a second-string side and were punished as Otago rallied from 3-10 down to lead 15-13 at halftime, then hung on through a tense second half.
Paterson scored in the 30th and 41st as the Highlanders posted their seventh win from nine games while handing the Crusaders their second loss, also from nine matches.
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