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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.

The Maroons footwear disconnected and we're underway successful the 2nd half!

Phil Gould points retired that the 10-6 scoreline to the Maroons present was the nonstop aforesaid scoreline half-way done past night's contest.

The Blues volition anticipation for a amended effect this clip around. Isabelle Kelly inactive disconnected the tract and Yasmin Clysdale has taken her presumption for the moment.

It's a pugnacious one, that's Origin. You've conscionable got to support composure and clasp the ball. Too galore drops from some teams, but for us, that's not bully enough.

Not the fractional we wanted to play ... but to inactive beryllium connected apical astatine half-time we instrumentality a batch of assurance and hopefully we support going successful the 2nd half.

What a fractional of footy that was!

Both teams aren't excessively impressed with their level of play, but the Maroons are thrilled to beryllium up astatine the break.

"It's a pugnacious one, that's Origin," Millie Boyle says of her skipper's injury.

"You've conscionable got to support composure and clasp the ball. Too galore drops from some teams, but for us, that's not bully enough."

"Not the fractional we wanted to play ... but to inactive beryllium connected apical astatine half-time we instrumentality a batch of assurance and hopefully we support going successful the 2nd half," Maroons prima Tarryn Aiken adds.

Queensland makes the one-woman vantage count!

Blues co-captain Isabelle Kelly was successful the hands of the trainers down the play and truthful incapable to articulation the defence and the Maroons strike.

Tazmin Gray goes astatine the halfback and scores easy to springiness the Maroons the pb erstwhile again.

Kelly looks similar she copped an elbow to her pharynx and she's being helped disconnected the tract by a brace of trainers. That's a perchance immense stroke for NSW.

"A existent stroke for the Blues. She's got an elbow close successful the throat," says Blues icon Phil Gould connected Nine's coverage.

"Feels similar you've got 3 Adam's apples erstwhile that happens, feels similar you've swallowed a cricket ball."

Brilliant from Jess Sergis!

She runs wrong the enarthrosis of Rachael Pearson and ploughs done aggregate Maroons defenders to get Queensland connected the board.

"She's easy 1 of the astir damaging ball-runners successful women's rugby league anyplace successful the world. She's a beautifully balanced athlete," says Phil Gould connected Nine's coverage.

Southwell makes nary mistake connected the conversion and the Blues pb by two.

Brilliant effect from Queensland aft being up against it successful the opening minutes!

They expanse the shot to the close broadside of the tract and Julia Robinson opens the scoring with a superb decorativeness aft a terrific walk from Tamika Upton.

Zahara Temara's footwear doesn't rather person the legs from a just region retired and it remains a 4-0 pb to the Maroons.