THE Grafton Redmen Women’s 10s side kicked-off the season with a hard-fought 24-10 victory over Coffs Snappers on Saturday.
After the softening up period, which lasted for most of the first half, Redmen scrum-half Clare Gardner found the line to give her side the lead heading into the break.
Grafton’s Natalie Blackadder stretched their advantage to 10-0 after catching the defence napping 40-metres out and when try-scoring machine Yuri Fuller found the chalk not long after, all of a sudden the home side looked like piling on a cricket score.
However, to their credit, Snappers refused to lay down scoring two unanswered tries to reawaken the contest.
Blackadder picked up her second five-pointer late in the game to seal the victory.
It was a high-quality game punctuated by bruising defence but in the final wash-up, Grafton’s strike-power across the park proved the difference.
