The Hawks took on Gunning and got off to a quick start with a try very early to Junior Pouono, who crashed over.
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The Hawks would continue to dominate field position with Matt Holmes and Luke Brown leading the way up front before Hamish Bradford sliced through to run 50 metres to score.
The Hawks would continue to pile on the points with trys to Jack Fuller and Chris Fredericks.
The second half saw the Hawks dominate to run out winners, 66 to 4.
Hamish Bradford, Luke Brown, Ben Davis, Chris Fredericks, Jack Fuller, Junior Pouono scored one try each while Jonathon Pouono and 3 to James Fanderlinden scored two each.
Ryan Daley scored a try and kicked 9 goals in a great display.
Matt Holmes was great leading way.
Hamish Bradford was dangerous playing the ⅝ role.
Ben Davis and Chris Federick, Pat Smith and James Houghton were great against the much bigger opposition.
James Fanderlinden was very impressive coming off the bench scoring three trys.
This week will see Friday night footy at Harden Hawkettes v Binalong at 7pm and Hawks v Binalong at 8:15pm
Results Round 1 Men's:
Harden Hawks defeated Gunning Roos, 66 to 4
Binalong Brahmans defeated Boomanulla Raiders, 34 to 12
Bungedore Tigers defeated Crookwell Green, 16 to 14
Boorowa Rovers defeated UC Grizzlies, 40 to 0
Under 19s Harden/Boorowa played their first game against Tuggeranong in a great performance and won, 32 to 14.
This week will see them play Queanbeyan blues on Saturday at 11:30am at Seiffert Oval.
Under 16s Harden/Boorowa had a first round bye and will play West Belconnen this week at Boorowa.
Friday night at 6.30pm the boys have been training hard under Scott Duncan and Chris Whybrow coaching, the side has plenty of potential and I'm sure will be very competitive in the under 16s Canberra competition.
