Jersey Flegg: Dragons fall to Canterbury to end year

The Bulldogs found early points with Bronson Reuben sweeping down the left and handing the ball off to Jope Rauqe to fall over in the left-hand corner.

The next period of the match belonged to the visitors with halfback Eden Hodges helping spark a three-try, seven-minute period.

Hodges showcased a brilliant dummy and step to nab the Dragons' first 10 minutes into proceedings.

Aaymon Fitzgibbon's boot helped lay on the side's second try weighting a kick perfectly for a chasing Tobias Miller who went aerial to reel the ball in and get it to the grass.

Hodges notched his second the next set in near identical fashion to his first dummying and scurrying his way to the in-goal to push the Dragons' lead out to 16-4.

The contest's momentum turned decisively off it with Rauqe finding his second off an attacking scrum win in which Taye Cochrane showed a superb set of hands to put his winger over.

Reuben found a try off his own ricocheted grubber a half-hour in to lock things up at 16-apiece.

Canterbury dealt a blow just shy of half-time with Sosaia Kaufusi pouncing on a Joseph Teaupa grubber down a narrow left side to put the hosts on top entering the break.

The Dragons scored the first points of the second forty with Hodges putting in a pinpoint grubber for a chasing Viliami Amone to tie things back at 22-all.

The visitors' fightback unfortunately ceased there with the final quarter of the match belonging to the Bulldogs.

Rauqe secured his hat-trick an hour in off a fifth-tackle Teaupa cut-out as Canterbury went back ahead.

Latrell Fing extended the Bulldogs advantage the next set off the back of a Bud Smith break to make it a double-digit game.

Bailey Myers went over out of dummy-half in the dying stages to seal the competition points for the home side.