International and Origin Round-Up
14 Warriors were in International and Origin action over the weekend, including nine Warriors Women representing Lancashire who took the Series win.
PNG Orchids 6-34 Cook Islands Moana
Emily Veivers started at Hooker for PNG Orchids at Santos National Football Stadium, Port Moresby in Round 1 of the Pacific Championships on Saturday.
Cook Islands Moana took the big victory but Emily Veivers got the Orchids’ only points of the game with her first International try, converting her own score to open the game. Cook Islands responded with 7 tries and 3 conversions to take the victory.
Lancashire 20-14 Yorkshire
Lancashire secured a 2-0 Series win in the Women’s Origin on Saturday as nine Warriors featured for the Red Rose.
Anna Davies, Eva Hunter, Georgia Wilson, Isabel Rowe, Jenna Foubister, Mary Coleman, Megan Williams, Mia-Jayne Atherton and Molly Jones all featured for Lancashire as they backed up their win earlier in the year to complete a 2-0 Series win with the 20-14 victory.
Eboni Partington opened the scoring, assisted by Wigan’s Molly Jones before Anna Davies added to the tally. Mary Coleman then went over early in the second half to build-up a 16-0 lead for Lancashire before Yorkshire hit back with three tries to reduce the scores to just two-points as Warriors winger Anna Davies rounded off the game with a score out wide late on.
Scotland Wheelchair ‘A’ 8-68 Ireland Wheelchair ‘A’
Phil Roberts (also Head Coach) was on the interchange bench for Ireland ‘A’ in the first game of the international wheelchair double-header on Saturday afternoon.
Jack Mangan was the star of the show for Ireland with six tries. James McCarthy and Maurice Noonan bagged braces each and Bledi Suxha, who also kicked six goals, and Shaun McCullagh both scored tries on debut.
Scotland Wheelchair 6-58 Ireland Wheelchair
Toby Burton-Carter, Mel Griffith and Oran Spain all featured as Ireland took a commanding victory over Scotland in the second of two game between the two Nations on Saturday afternoon at Oriam Performance Centre, Edinburgh, as both nations began their IRL Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup 2026 preparations.
Toby Burton-Carter crossed for a double whilst Mel Griffith and Oran Spain both went over in the victory.
Ireland head coach, Phil Roberts, commented: “It was key for the growth of our domestic game that those players had an opportunity to play internationally and after some initial nerves, it was an accomplished performance. We got off to a scratchy start, but that was in part due to the improvement of the Scotland team. Once we calmed down and cut out some errors we were able to concentrate on the way we wanted to play and put some nice rugby together.”
