{"id":388523,"date":"2024-04-27T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388523"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T13:03:22","slug":"panthers-edge-cowboys-in-origin-stars-100th-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388523","title":{"rendered":"Panthers edge Cowboys in Origin star's 100th match"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffhe Panthers<\/a> opened with a slick try through Brian To'o and closed out their Saturday night clash with a 26-20 victory, marking the gun winger's 100th NRL<\/a> game in winning fashion.<\/p>\n

Milestone man To'o and his teammates will return from Townsville as victors after they held off a fast-finishing Cowboys<\/a> outfit at Queensland Country Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Panthers led 24-4 after cracking the Cowboys' defence in the 45th minute, before three unanswered North Queensland tries gave the three-time reigning premiers a scare.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>Bottle hits Aussie's caddie as 'watering hole' goes off\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Demetriou asks players 'to take ownership' after drubbing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Calls for major NRL change after sickening collision<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cowboys piled on tries through Valentine Holmes,\ufeff Kulikefu Finefeuiaki and Jeremiah Nanai in the second half, but the Panthers resisted the onslaught from then on to bolster their position in the top four.<\/p>\n

\"Brian<\/p>\n

The Panthers are placed\ufeff third with two games remaining in round eight, while the Cowboys are floundering in 10th.<\/p>\n

Penrith hit the scoreboard just two minutes into the contest, spreading the footy to the left as To'o burst onto a Jarome Luai ball and darted over to score.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2024 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and <\/strong><\/em>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The NSW State of Origin winger also busted through 18 tackles and made 228 metres.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffHe's an absolute freak," Panthers co-captain Nathan Cleary told Fox League.<\/p>\n

"It was Bizza's\ufeff 100th game tonight and he's been doing that [breaking through tackles and making huge metres] since game one."<\/p>\n

Cleary returned for his first game since round\ufeff three, having overcome a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffhe Panthers opened with a slick try through Brian To'o and closed out their Saturday night clash with a 26-20 victory, marking the gun winger's […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388526,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388523\/revisions\/388526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}