The Northern Rivers Times
May 26, 2022
76 SPORT NEWS
EVANS SURFER WINS GOLD COAST PRO Callum Robson celebrating. Photo: Dunbar/WSL
MAX PERROT Evans Head’s Callum Robson has won the Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast. The Challenger all-Australian matchup
between Callum Robson and Sheldon Simkus. Robson, representing Evans Head, is a current rookie on the 2022 CT and carried over his recent success into today’s Challenger Series Final to claim a win over Gold Coast local Simkus.
The win marks Series victory, following his breakthrough secondplace result on the CT at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach last month. “It’s been a big day for me and an amazing event with fantastic surf and to win is incredible
for me,” said Robson. “The year to date has been better than I could have imagined. I’ve had enormous support from the entire community from my hometown at Evans Head to surf this tour and I’m stoked to repay them and put Evans Head on the
map.” Callum is running a fundraiser for those ravaged Northern Rivers. All proceeds raised will be given to the GIVIT charity and the Mid-Richmond Neighbourhood centre to get supplies to those who
need it most. Prizes include a signed surfboard by all WSL 2022 tour surfers, full day of surf coaching Australia HPC and more. Go to www. callumrobson.com.au to buy tickets.
Ghosts not crowing after downing Roosters TIM HOWARD The Grafton Ghosts are happy to bank the Group 2 Rugby League competition points, but the 24-12 win over Nambucca Roosters, has given captain coach Todd Cameron plenty to work on. Walking off a swampy Frank McGuren Field on Sunday, Cameron was clearly not happy with his team’s performance. “Before we start thinking about winning competitions or playing to learn to be there for the full 80 minutes,” he said. Cameron said giving up back to back penalties several times during a game, as the Ghosts did on Sunday, won’t always go unpunished.
His team also played 10 minutes of the second half a player short when prop forward Oliver Percy was binned for a high shot that left a Roosters players for several minutes. “We don’t have anyone to blame but ourselves,” Cameron said. “It’s something we have to work on.” But he said the wet weather that has stopped the team training outdoors for weeks, hasn’t helped the team develop cohesion. “I think we’ve got the football in us, but we have a lot to do based on today’s showing,” he said. The way the game played out backed Cameron’s description of the Ghosts playing well
in patches. The captain scored of the match when the Ghosts were attacking the Hoof St end of the ground. Cameron ran onto an to score about 15m from the touchline. Five-eighth Matt Muller converted. But for the next 20 minutes the Ghosts squandered a number of attacking opportunities and then the Roosters drew level with a scrambling wet-weather try. Defending their line, the Ghosts couldn’t control a grubber into the in-goal which Jason Jarrat got his hands on to score. But the Ghosts had just enough time to take a
10-6 half-time lead when hard running centre Jake Martin crossed. He wrong footed the defence close to the line just a couple of minutes before the break. The Ghosts had one of their good patches of football early in the second half. half, the Ghosts opened the scoring when centre Aaron Taylor spun out of a tackle and planted the ball in the left corner. Muller nailed the sideline conversion to make the score 16-6. Wicks scored the try of the game soon after when Cody Walker made a 40 metre break, brushing off tackles. later Wicks crashed over. Muller missed the conversion, giving the
For the Ghosts Cameron never stopped working in the middle of
massive hits, but gave away a few careless penalties. Percy, on his 30th birthday, also had a strong game in a hard working Ghosts forward pack. The Ghosts are at home again on Sunday against Woolgoolga The South Grafton Rebels were again denied a game when their match against Macksville, at Macksville, was called off due to the state of the ground. The Rebels face a tough ask on Sunday, travelling to Coffs Harbour for a game against the Comets, not have played
Prop forward Adam Slater made some
40-14 at the start of the month.
Ghosts a 20-6 lead. Percy was binned soon after and the Roosters exploited the numbers advantage to score their second try. Hard working back rower Owen Harris twisted out of an attempted tackle close to the line and was able to crash over near the posts. The conversion made it 20-12 and there was a hint of a Roosters come back in the wind. But the Ghosts snuffed it with an attacking raid that ended in a try when winger Merrick Skinner dived onto a grubber kick in the in-goal to
