For the second successive week Farrer surrendered a lead late in the match to lose to Sydney’s Endeavour Sports High, with the Tamworth school eliminated from the Elite Schools University Shield at home on Wednesday morning.
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On Tuesday last week at Campbelltown, Endeavour ended Farrer’s NRL Schoolboys Cup run in the quarter-finals with a 30-22 win. Farrer had led 22-20 inside the last 10 minutes.
This time, Endeavour scored two tries in the last six minutes to win 24-16 and prevent the hosts from advancing to the University Shield semi-finals.
Farrer led 16-4 at halftime, after their hooker-captain Max Altus scored a long-range, runaway try on the siren.
But the bigger bodied Endeavour scored four unanswered tries after the break.
In his last match for the side, Altus said he thought Farrer “had it all over them” but capitulated after a “few silly errors” stopped the side from completing sets.
However, he praised his teammates for their effort.
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He said: “The boys dug real deep there. It was just our edges … they had a few big boys and got through us. But it was a good effort from the boys. It was a good lead we had but we just couldn’t hold it.
“I was real stoked with the boys’ effort today. They're [Endeavour] a big side and they’re a sports school, too, and we’re just a high school. So it was a real good effort from everyone.”
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The match ended Altus’s six years of playing league at Farrer, the past three years in the First XIII. At the end of the year he will tour England with the Australian Schoolboys side.
Farrer beat Endeavour in the 2003 final of the tournament, before the format was changed and it was split into top-tier and second-tier competitions.
