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Vodafone Warriors fullback Glen Fisiiahi blasted his way to a hat-trick as the Auckland Vulcans surged into the New South Wales Cup's top eight with their biggest win of the season on Saturday.
With eight tries in total, the Vulcans overpowered the Illawarra Cutters in , kick-starting a clean sweep in all three grades as the Vodafone Warriors beat 44-22 in the NRL and the Vodafone Junior Warriors trounced the Rabbitohs 48-14 in the NYC today.
In his first four appearances of the season, Fisiiahi had scored 10 tries including six alone against the competition's bottom side Western Suburbs. A week later he dotted down three times against Manly's NSW Cup side and followed up with a try when he was brought into the Vodafone Warriors' line-up for their NRL clash against the Sydney Roosters.
Saturday's treble, all of them from long range, gave Fisiiahi 13 tries in five NSW Cup games but, more importantly, helped the 2011 grand finalists to their most complete performance of the year and a hold on eighth spot.
After Fisiiahi had scored the first try of the match, Vodafone Warriors centre Konrad Hurrell came up with the second before Illawarra's former Vodafone Warriors winger Denan Kemp cut the margin to 8-4 at halftime.
The second spell was another matter completely as the Vulcans struck a rich vein of form to run away with the contest.
Fisiiahi had two more, prop Herman Retzlaff snared a double, Vodafone Warriors second rower Sam Lousi powered over for another and winger Willie Peace finished the scoring off. The margin would have been even healthier but for the fact only three of the eight tries were converted.
The Vulcans have now scored 206 points in winning three of their seven matches, a total topped only by (216).
Match details:
At WIN Stadium, Illawarra Cutters 4 (Denan Kemp try)
Auckland Vulcans 38 (Glen Fisiiahi 3, Herman Retzlaff 2, Konrad Hurrell, Sam Lousi, Willie Peace tries; DJ Collier 3 conversions).
Halftime: 8-4 Vulcans.
With eight tries in total, the Vulcans overpowered the Illawarra Cutters in , kick-starting a clean sweep in all three grades as the Vodafone Warriors beat 44-22 in the NRL and the Vodafone Junior Warriors trounced the Rabbitohs 48-14 in the NYC today.
In his first four appearances of the season, Fisiiahi had scored 10 tries including six alone against the competition's bottom side Western Suburbs. A week later he dotted down three times against Manly's NSW Cup side and followed up with a try when he was brought into the Vodafone Warriors' line-up for their NRL clash against the Sydney Roosters.
Saturday's treble, all of them from long range, gave Fisiiahi 13 tries in five NSW Cup games but, more importantly, helped the 2011 grand finalists to their most complete performance of the year and a hold on eighth spot.
After Fisiiahi had scored the first try of the match, Vodafone Warriors centre Konrad Hurrell came up with the second before Illawarra's former Vodafone Warriors winger Denan Kemp cut the margin to 8-4 at halftime.
The second spell was another matter completely as the Vulcans struck a rich vein of form to run away with the contest.
Fisiiahi had two more, prop Herman Retzlaff snared a double, Vodafone Warriors second rower Sam Lousi powered over for another and winger Willie Peace finished the scoring off. The margin would have been even healthier but for the fact only three of the eight tries were converted.
The Vulcans have now scored 206 points in winning three of their seven matches, a total topped only by (216).
Match details:
At WIN Stadium, Illawarra Cutters 4 (Denan Kemp try)
Auckland Vulcans 38 (Glen Fisiiahi 3, Herman Retzlaff 2, Konrad Hurrell, Sam Lousi, Willie Peace tries; DJ Collier 3 conversions).
Halftime: 8-4 Vulcans.
