The South Sydney Rabbitohs have enjoyed wonderful success at recent and upcoming school age competitions, with two young Rabbitohs earning Australian Schoolboys under 18s jerseys for their end-of-season Test match with more details to be confirmed by ASSRL in the next month.
Back rower Thomas Fletcher and lock Liam Le Blanc were both selected to represent Australia following last week’s National Schoolboys Championships in Redcliffe, with half Jye Gray and outside backs Tyrone Munro and Haizyn Mellars unlucky to miss out on selection themselves.
Fletcher, representing NSW Combined Catholic Colleges (NSWCCC) had a barnstorming tournament, as did his future team mate Le Blanc who was representing Queensland Secondary Schools (QSSRL).
The Queensland side, captained by Gray and featuring both Le Blanc and Mellars in the team, defeated NSW Combined High Schools (NSWCHS) in the Final, a side captained by Munro.
The Rabbitohs had 20 representatives out of the 160 players playing in the tournament at both the under 18s and under 15s levels.
In the under 15s competition, the Rabbitohs had seven players feature in the Final played between NSW Combined Independent Schools (NSWCIS) and NSWCHS. Representing NSWCIS were Tanner Mahon, Christian Pasikala, Taj Aufai-Farani and Keone Anitelea-Tsioussi, whilst Clayton McGoon, Lochlin Moses and Tamoko Berryman-Duff represented NSWCHS in the Final. On the coaching staff of the NSWCIS under 15s team were Yoni Charpulski and Eddie Paea who are both on the Rabbitohs Harold Matthews Cup under 17s coaching staff.
On Wednesday night, as the curtain raiser to the third State of Origin match being played at Suncorp Stadium, Maya Harris will represent the NSW Schoolgirls against the QLD Schoolgirls in the first ever match of this kind, on what is one of Rugby League’s biggest stages.
Maya is part of the Rabbitohs Tarsha Gale Cup squad and will represent NSW with pride on Wednesday night.
Congratulations to everyone involved on their representative selections and performances, particularly Fletcher and Le Blanc for earning Australian Schoolboys selection, and best of luck to Maya for her performance this Wednesday night.
