Top PRL sides aim to improve for-and-against as season continues

By JACK AMI
Port Moresby Rugby League’s top sides are looking to inflict more misery on their opponents as they seek to build on their point differential this season.
Hawks and Paga Panthers recorded big wins over Souths, Magani and Gulf West, with their differential much better than the Butterflies, Sisters and Hohola Flies. The Hawks set the bar with a 44-0 flogging of cellar-dwellers Souths to hold a differential of 200 points for and 38 points against.
Hawks’ Maima Wei, Paga’s Janet Michael, and Butterflies’ Della Audama and Joan Kuman are expected to play crucial roles in building their sides’ differential.
Competition leaders Paga have scored 186 points and conceded 26, with the Flies, Butterflies and Sisters posting in excess of 100 points.
The Kone Storms, Souths and Magani are on the wrong end of the spectrum, all having negative differentials. Magani and Storms have recorded one win each, while Souths remaining luckless, losing all their matches so far this season.
Paga and Souths were the joint premiers last season and split up the grand final prize money.