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<div id="ArticleContent"><p>Canberra have underlined their <a data-link-type="article-inline" target="_blank" href="https://7news.com.au/sport/rugby-league">NRL</a> premiership credentials by becoming the first team to defeat the Warriors in New Zealand this season with a gritty 16-10 win.</p><p>In a spiteful game played at a rain-soaked GoMedia Stadium, the Raiders (9-3) leapfrogged the Warriors into second spot on the NRL ladder after surviving a late onslaught from the Kiwi side.</p><p>The Raiders had two players - Corey Horsburgh and Tom Starling - sent to the sin bin on Sunday but stood tall in Auckland to add the Warriors to their list of 2025 scalps, which also includes Melbourne and Cronulla.</p><p><span>Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a href="https://7news.com.au/app?utm_source...ontextual-link-app&utm_campaign=7news-app" target="_blank">Download today <img src="https://7news.com.au/static/media/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg" alt="Download today" height="14" width="20"></a></span></p><p>Starling could face the wrath of the match review committee for his 77th-minute high shot on Chanel Harris-Tavita, while Raiders captain Joe Tapine was placed on report twice.</p><p>The Warriors drew first blood in the 15th minute when Tapine was penalised for a crusher tackle on Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, with Luke Metcalf kicking a penalty goal.</p><p>Tapine’s ill-discipline was a theme of a first-half Raiders performance where Ricky Stuart’s men gave away five penalties and five set restarts.</p><p>After Warriors winger Roger Tuivasa-Sheck had powered over Xavier Savage for the game’s first try in the 23rd minute, referee Adam Gee lost patience and sent Horsburgh to the sin bin.</p><p>The Raiders were on the ropes as the Warriors looked to exploit a 12-man defence, but Canberra were given an avenue back into the game when Harris-Tavita fumbled the ball.</p><p>On the next set the Raiders flung the ball to the left, where Seb Kris sent Starling over the whitewash after an inside pass.</p><p>Then, with 45 seconds left before halftime, Warriors centre Adam Pompey was penalised for being offside at a goal-line drop-out, which allowed Jamal Fogarty an easy penalty that tied the game up at 8-8 at the break.</p><p>Metcalf and Fogarty traded penalties in the early part of the second half, the latter’s coming when Nicoll-Klokstad was sin-binned for repeated ruck infringements with 20 minutes left.</p><p>Tuivasa-Sheck shifted to fullback, but he was unable to halt Fogarty as the halfback backed up an Ata Mariota break and put the Raiders a converted score ahead with a quarter of an hour left.</p><p>Fogarty’s try proved the match-winner, with the Green Machine surviving sustained Warriors pressure, compounded by having to play the final three minutes without Starling.</p><p>English import Morgan Smithies ensured the Raiders went home with the two points when he held out Warriors forward Marata Niukore in the dying stages.</p></div>
<div id="ArticleContent"><p>Canberra have underlined their <a data-link-type="article-inline" target="_blank" href="https://7news.com.au/sport/rugby-league">NRL</a> premiership credentials by becoming the first team to defeat the Warriors in New Zealand this season with a gritty 16-10 win.</p><p>In a spiteful game played at a rain-soaked GoMedia Stadium, the Raiders (9-3) leapfrogged the Warriors into second spot on the NRL ladder after surviving a late onslaught from the Kiwi side.</p><p>The Raiders had two players - Corey Horsburgh and Tom Starling - sent to the sin bin on Sunday but stood tall in Auckland to add the Warriors to their list of 2025 scalps, which also includes Melbourne and Cronulla.</p><p><span>Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a href="https://7news.com.au/app?utm_source...ontextual-link-app&utm_campaign=7news-app" target="_blank">Download today <img src="https://7news.com.au/static/media/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg" alt="Download today" height="14" width="20"></a></span></p><p>Starling could face the wrath of the match review committee for his 77th-minute high shot on Chanel Harris-Tavita, while Raiders captain Joe Tapine was placed on report twice.</p><p>The Warriors drew first blood in the 15th minute when Tapine was penalised for a crusher tackle on Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, with Luke Metcalf kicking a penalty goal.</p><p>Tapine’s ill-discipline was a theme of a first-half Raiders performance where Ricky Stuart’s men gave away five penalties and five set restarts.</p><p>After Warriors winger Roger Tuivasa-Sheck had powered over Xavier Savage for the game’s first try in the 23rd minute, referee Adam Gee lost patience and sent Horsburgh to the sin bin.</p><p>The Raiders were on the ropes as the Warriors looked to exploit a 12-man defence, but Canberra were given an avenue back into the game when Harris-Tavita fumbled the ball.</p><p>On the next set the Raiders flung the ball to the left, where Seb Kris sent Starling over the whitewash after an inside pass.</p><p>Then, with 45 seconds left before halftime, Warriors centre Adam Pompey was penalised for being offside at a goal-line drop-out, which allowed Jamal Fogarty an easy penalty that tied the game up at 8-8 at the break.</p><p>Metcalf and Fogarty traded penalties in the early part of the second half, the latter’s coming when Nicoll-Klokstad was sin-binned for repeated ruck infringements with 20 minutes left.</p><p>Tuivasa-Sheck shifted to fullback, but he was unable to halt Fogarty as the halfback backed up an Ata Mariota break and put the Raiders a converted score ahead with a quarter of an hour left.</p><p>Fogarty’s try proved the match-winner, with the Green Machine surviving sustained Warriors pressure, compounded by having to play the final three minutes without Starling.</p><p>English import Morgan Smithies ensured the Raiders went home with the two points when he held out Warriors forward Marata Niukore in the dying stages.</p></div>