Storm speedster scores incredible solo try

That's all, folks!

Thanks for your institution tonight, drawback you each tomorrow.

Storm guardant Eliesa Katoa snared 2 tries and laid a game-deciding, bone-rattling deed connected Dragons skipper Ben Hunt arsenic the Storm survived a scare to triumph 38-28 connected Saturday night.

A St George Illawarra triumph was inactive imaginable arsenic the hosts, trailing 30-28 successful Wollongong, worked their mode up the tract with 2 minutes near connected the clock, but Katoa floored Hunt with a thumping deed and Melbourne scored connected the backmost of it.

Hunt coughed up the shot and Storm halfback Jahrome Hughes swooped, pouncing connected the footy and racing distant to score.

Melbourne trailed 18-4 aft 25 minutes, and the Dragons scored a precocious effort done Mikaele Ravalawa to adjacent the shortage to 2 points, but the Storm person prevailed 38-28.

MORE TO COME.

Remember the legendary Brute Big Hits?

Well Eliesa Katoa has conscionable enactment connected a Brute Big Hit!

The Storm dynamo crunches Ben Hunt and the Dragons skipper coughs up the ball.

Jahrome Hughes swoops connected the footy and streaks distant to seal the triumph for the Storm.

"That's a effort for your defence," Phil Gould says connected the Nine broadcast.

"Forget the 2 tries that helium scored," adds Nine's Allana Ferguson.

"Katoa with that tackle conscionable won his squad the game. There's nary coming backmost from this present for the Dragons."

There's beingness successful the Dragons yet!

The location broadside spreads the shot close and Mikaele Ravalawa ices the play, crossing for a effort to adjacent the shortage to 2 points.

Unfortunately for Dragons fans, Ben Hunt fails to convert.

Storm 30, Dragons 28 with 5 minutes near connected the clock.

Eliesa Katoa is surely not renowned for scoring tries, but he's conscionable nabbed his 2nd four-pointer successful little than 5 minutes.

Jahrome Hughes puts a deft spot implicit the St George Illawarra defence and Katoa charges through, collects the footy and scores.

The Storm pb 30-24 successful the 57th infinitesimal aft a palmy Nick Meaney conversion.

The Dragons and Storm are inactive cervix and cervix 51 minutes into the crippled pursuing a effort apiece aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Billy Burns scored his 2nd effort of the nighttime erstwhile Will Warbrick failed to defuse a Ben Hunt bomb, earlier Eliesa Katoa utilized his spot to musculus done the Dragons defence from adjacent range.

The scores are locked astatine 24-24.

The 2nd fractional of the Dragons-Storm clash gets underway with the scores quadrate astatine 18-18.