A hooker swap has again been made for the Vodafone Junior Warriors’ seventh-round NYC encounter with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Belmore Sports Ground today (11.00am kick-off local time; 1.00pm NZT).
As he did for last week’s 28-20 win over Manly, coach Kelvin Wright has opted to start with Chris Sio – named at loose forward originally – with captain and first-choice hooker Sheldon Pitama being used from the bench.
Kenese Kenese also comes into the starting line-up again, moved off the bench to run on at loose forward.
Front rower Keanu Dawson has been brought onto the bench.
VODAFONE JUNIOR WARRIORS v CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS
Belmore Sports Ground, Sydney
11.00am, Saturday, April 16
Referee: Liam Nicholls
VODAFONE JUNIOR WARRIORS
1 KANE TELEA
2 LEWIS SOOSEMEA
18 JUNIOR PAUGA
4 MELINO FINEANGANOFO
5 LEVI McBIRNEY
6 ERIN CLARK
7 ZION IOKA
13 ISAIAH PAPALII
15 CHRIS SIO
10 BUNTY AFOA (vc)
11 OFAHIKI OGDEN
21 JOE VUNA
16 KENESE KENESE
Interchange:
8 TUALIMA TUALIMA
9 SHELDON PITAMA (c)
14 CHANEL HARRIS-TAVITA
17 KEANU DAWSON
COACH | KELVIN WRIGHT
