4 tries from Jeremy Bourson helped Catalans Dragons retain the Betfred Wheelchair Problem Cup with a powerful 81-18 victory over Wigan Warriors on the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
Participant of the match Bourson opened the scoring as early because the fifth minute, acrobatically clutching Nico Claussels’ lofted cross-kick and the France worldwide rounded off the primary half scoring together with his hat-trick attempt within the thirty second minute with one more show of particular person ability and sheer velocity.
In between these tries, Clausells had chased his personal seemingly innocuous kick via to steal a attempt from underneath the noses of the Warriors’ defence, Arno Vargas completed off a flowing transfer for the primary of his personal eye-catching hat-trick and Bourson had pounced for his second earlier than the Warriors had even obtained off the mark.
“It’s great to have won it again”, Catalans captain and England worldwide Seb Bechara stated. “I’ve said before that winning the Challenge Cup last year meant a lot to me and the rest of the guys.
“We pressured a couple of too many passes within the first half, however in the long run, it was efficiency. It is nice to be going dwelling in with the cup once more.”
Trailing 22-0, Wigan wanted inspiration and it got here via skipper Dec Roberts, whose Seventeenth-minute try to conversion closed the hole to 16 factors. That deficit was narrowed additional when Adam Rigby discovered himself on the tip of an outstanding workforce transfer simply three minutes later.
However 12-22 was nearly as good because it obtained for the Warriors and with Clausells and Bourson scoring once more earlier than half-time, the trophy was already midway to Perpignan with the Dragons 34-12 forward.
Within the second half the Dragons handled the 400-plus crowd to an exhibition of try-scoring with World Cup winner Bechara scoring the primary of his hat-trick within the forty first minute – his 72nd-minute attempt to full the haul being the choose of the bunch as he confirmed an astonishing flip of velocity to burst via the Warriors ranks.
There have been additional tries from Vargas, Bourson, Dore and Nico Clausells, plus a drop objective from the latter’s uncle, Gilles, with Wigan having solely a late comfort from Jack Heggie to point out for his or her efforts.
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