A MASTERCLASS from captain-coach Dennis Moran led the Parkes Spacemen to a mammoth win yesterday, ensuring they remain level with Dubbo CYMS at the top of the Group 11 ladder.
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Moran scored 34 points on his own as the Spacemen did a demolition job on the Narromine Jets and won 92-4.
Going into the match having not lost this season, the Spacemen were always favourites but few expected last season's Group 11 runners-up to produce such a dominant display.
Moran scored two tries and kicked 13 conversions while all of Parkes' other big names also impressed in the 16-try effort.
Barnstorming prop Brendan Tago, backing up from Western Rams duty on Saturday, collect the Players' Player award while fullback Sam Dwyer was electric and scored a hat-trick.
Tino Ionatana, Brandon Paige, Kevin Frank, Alex Prout and Jordan Pope all scored doubles while Ben Nash was the other to get across the line.
With six wins and a draw against the Fishies so far this season, Parkes have begun 2015 brilliantly.
With Moran running the show, ably assisted by Prout at halfback, and Tago adding a whole new dimension up front, the Spacemen appear well equipped for another premiership tilt.
Former NRL player Moran orchestrated everything yesterday, producing another classic individual performance in the halves as the Spacemen recorded the highest score by a team so far this season.
For the Jets, it was another disappointing performance and they remain on three points, one point ahead of the bottom-placed Cobar Roosters.
Even more worrying for Narromine, whose lone try came from Mick Burns, there was a long delay as an injured Jets players was taken from the field in an ambulance late in the match.
The Wellington Cowboys also scored a win yesterday but were made to work hard by a battling Cobar Roosters outfit at Kennard Park.
Early in the day the mercy rule came into play in the under-18s as Wellington led Cobar 92-0 when the game was called off but things were much tighter in the day's main match.
The Cowboys were leading 22-14 at half time but things got more comfortable in the second half and they ran out 42-22 winners, leapfrogging Nyngan into fourth in the process.
Justin Toomey-White, also backing up from representative duty on Saturday, was again a standout for Wellington, crossing for three tries.
Youngster James Frazer scored a double for Cobar in a losing effort.