Dragons make history in thrilling NRLW finish

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A sweetly-struck Rachel Pearson tract extremity has seen the Dragons clinch the archetypal ever NRLW aureate constituent decorativeness against the Broncos.

The Dragons led for a bulk of the match, but the Broncos dominated possession for overmuch of the 2nd half.

They drew level successful the last infinitesimal erstwhile Ali Brigginshaw crossed nether the sticks earlier Tarryn Aiken's conversion tied it up astatine 18-all.

Off the footwear off, the Broncos marched up the tract earlier Brigginshaw's final-play tract extremity effort from 35m retired fell agonisingly short.

It was with their archetypal usage of the shot successful aureate constituent that the Dragons got it done with a tract extremity arsenic well-struck arsenic immoderate driblet footwear could ever be.

"Good transportation determination from dummy half, and Pearson nails the assignment," Nine commentator Chris Warren said.

Ruan Sims said the triumph was acceptable up 3 tackles earlier.

"What a fantastic finish, what a fantastic accidental for these women to showcase the archetypal ever aureate constituent crippled successful NRLW history, and the archetypal clip the Dragons person kicked and won by a tract extremity successful NRLW history," she said.

"Rachael Pearson she's the 1 I earmarked they volition beryllium going to first. Kezie Apps acceptable it up with a superb tally down that close edge, followed it up with a bully small acceptable up and a bully settler by Keeley Davis.

"The transportation retired the backmost by Quincy Dodd was on-song, and portion the Broncos had the tally of that 2nd half, it was the Dragons who truly came distant with specified a bully triumph successful a nail-biting finish."

The Broncos' extremity kicking was the quality successful the four-tries-to-three loss.

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The Broncos scored archetypal successful conscionable the sixth minute, earlier the Dragos scored doubly successful 3 minutes to deed the sheds 12-4 up.

They scored their 3rd successful the 55th minute, earlier the Broncs scored 2 precocious tries to gully level.

Unfortunately for the Broncos, Brianna Clark missed each of the archetypal 3 conversions, earlier Tarryn Aiken kicked the important extremity to necktie it up from close successful front.

Meanwhile, Rachel Peason's footwear was dialled in, kicking 3 from 3 positive the last tract goal.

The triumph was the Dragon's 3rd of the year. They'll instrumentality connected the undefeated Knights successful the 3rd crippled of adjacent weekend's triple-header astatine Central Coast Stadium.

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