League test wins

Tries to Ryan Hall and Stefan Ratchford got England off to an impressive start on their way to a 30-10 win over Samoa in a rugby league international at Sydney’s Campbelltown Stadium on Saturday. Prop and Canterbury skipper James Graham played strongly in the five-tries-to-two win, running for a game-high 168 metres and scoring the matchsealing try. In other international matches on Saturday at the same stadium Papua New Guinea beat the Cook Islands 32-22 and Tonga edged Fiji 26-24. Ase Boas kicked a penalty goal for Papua New Guinea from the halfway line on fulltime to cap the win after the sides were level 12-12 at halftime.