Dubbo College too good for Orange High in Astley Cup rugby league

But the effort shown by the prop was just an example of Dubbo's desire to get as many points as it could after the school suffered a heavy 11-1 loss in the morning's hockey match.

Orange also never gave in the footy but it wasn't enough as the visitors scored a 36-16 victory.

Much of the win was set-up early as Dubbo came out fast and furious and capitalised on some costly errors from the boys in black.

Dubbo shot out to a 16-6 lead at the half and while the home side briefly made it look like a comeback was on, it was too much to claw back.

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Speaking after the game, O'Malley said the game plan was for he and his fellow forwards to just work hard up the middle

"Our goal was to play simple footy with no errors as discipline is huge and just play high percentage footy," he said.

"It's so important because points mean everything and you have to do all you can for your team to try and win the Astley Cup. All points matter so you have to defend hard."

Zac Williams, Will Cuthill, Sion Gordon, Vik Seaton, and Nat Lindsay also scored in the impressive performance while followed an equally impressive win over Bathurst last week.

Orange High coach Cam Jones was proud of the effort shown by his boys to stick with it throughout the game.

"I think we gave it a bit of a shot. It ended up running away from us but we hung in there which is always good as every point counts," he said.

"We tried to stick in there and not let Dubbo get much of a lead.

"The kids are pretty lucky to have something like this involved with the school. We spoke about making the most of it and try to make it as easy as possible for the rest of the sports."

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