LIVE: Blues burnt by Maroons after star's injury

It's an Origin treble for Queensland arsenic the women backmost up past night's effect from their antheral counterparts.

Queensland were terrific successful that 2nd half, capitalising connected a lapse successful the Blues' attraction soon aft half-time with 2 tries successful the abstraction of 5 minutes that blew the crippled open.

The Blues volition wonderment what might've been had past year's Player of the Match Isabelle Kelly been connected the tract successful that 2nd half.

"Some tremendous resoluteness and that Queensland resoluteness shines done again," says Phil Gould connected Nine's NRL coverage.

The eight-point borderline means the Blues volition person to triumph by astatine slightest 9 points successful Townsville to clasp the State of Origin shield

We're into the last 5 minutes present astatine CommBank Stadium.

Maroons inactive holding onto an eight-point lead, Blues throwing the room descend astatine them.

Some invited bully quality coming the Maroons' mode with Keilee Joseph passing her HIA.

She'll beryllium capable to instrumentality immoderate clip soon present arsenic the Maroons look to bent onto this eight-point lead.

The Blues aren't done conscionable yet!

There was a superb small hesitation from Jesse Southwell retired of the scrum which froze the Maroons' defence for a moment.

She past flicks the shot retired to Emma Tonegato who past finds Jaime Chapman successful the near corner. A much-needed stroke struck by NSW.

Southwell is incapable to person the effort truthful the Maroons clasp an 18-10 lead.

An attempted chip-and-chase comes unstuck for Jess Sergis arsenic she's taken retired by Tamika Upton, and Phil Gould isn't excessively blessed with what he's seeing from the Blues.

"You can't person a unreserved of blood," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"You've got to beryllium calm nether unit here. Pressure does comic things, and there's nary unit similar scoreboard pressure."

Just 20 minutes remaining for the Blues to salvage thing from this.

The Maroons are moving distant with it now!

Shenae Ciesolka successful the heavy of it erstwhile again, and she sets up Julia Robinson for her 2nd effort of the evening.

"What a crippled she's had tonight," says Phil Gould connected Nine's coverage.

"Brilliant successful defence, she picked disconnected the intercept which led to the past effort and present beautifully draws the winger to springiness the shot distant to Julia Robinson, immoderate existent accomplishment successful that."

Temara hits the station with the conversion footwear and the people remains 18-6 the Maroons' way.

UNVELIEVABLE TRY FOR THE MAROONS!

Shenae Ciesolka intercepted the shot with the Maroons defending and looked to spell the magnitude of the field, but she was brilliantly tally down by Jaime Chapman.

However, the Maroons were not phased and flicked the shot implicit to the near broadside of the tract and Emily Bass gives her broadside a two-try lead.

"They summed it up precise good aft that break," Darren Lockyer says connected Nine's coverage.

"Sometimes you panic successful that situation, but they knew wherever the abstraction was and they each played their role. They got the shot and knew they had to spell quick, but nary 1 panicked.

"In this concern sometimes you don't cognize wherever to look, but they knew wherever the abstraction was.

"That's a large momentum displacement due to the fact that the Blues looked threatening."

Horrible quality for the Blues here, with Isabelle Kelly taken to infirmary aft copping that brutal stroke to the pharynx astatine the extremity of the archetypal half.

"It is simply a pharynx wounded to Isabelle Kelly. She was coughing up humor and truly struggling to breathe, truthful she's really been taken to infirmary arsenic a precaution," says Nine's Emma Lawrence.

Wishing Kelly each the best.