Manly Sea Eagles thumped Western Suburbs Magpies 52-26 in Round 5 of the NSW Cup at 4 Pines Park.
Match: Sea Eagles v Magpies
Round 5 -
home Team
Sea Eagles
6th Position
away Team
Magpies
13th Position
Venue: 4 Pines Park, Sydney
The nine tries to five victory included a hat-trick to winger Raymond Tuaimalo Vaega and secured the team a third straight win at Brookvale in as many weeks.
The Magpies opened the scoring in the 15th minute when prop Kit Laulilii stormed on to a short ball from close range to score next to the posts.
From there the momentum was all with the home side who ran in five unanswered tries to take a 28-6 lead.

Navren Willet opened the scoring for Manly after collecting a Jake Arthur pass to plant the ball down in the scoreboard corner.
Jordan Swann showed great speed down the left edge for Manly’s second of the day, which followed a break through the middle by hooker Gordon Chan Kum Tong.

The home side then ran in three tries in a six-minute blitz, including a double two to Tuaimalo Vaegae and a try to Aaron Schoupp on the half hour mark.

The Magpies stemmed the flow of points with a try on the stroke of half time to centre Solomona Faataape to see his team trailing 28-10 at the break.
Manly continued to pile on the points ten minutes into the second half when TV scored on the left edge to bag his hattrick, booting the ball over the Lyons-Menzies stand and out of 4 Pines Park in celebration.
The Sea Eagles appeared in cruise control up 34-10 and with more points to come second half tries to Jakob Sykes, Dean Matterson and Zaidas Muagututia.
Brandon Wakeham bagged 16 points kicking eight from nine attempts in the team's third win of the season.