Tumut ends Southcity's unbeaten start in try fest

Instead it was a Lachlan Bristow led Tumut outfit who made it three wins on the trot with a 44-28 victory at Harris Park on Sunday.

The Blues have only had their colours lowered once this season and a 10-minute period either side of half-time really set the tone for last year's grand finalists.

Tumut scored twice in the last six minutes of the first half to lead 22-10 before Mitch Uvill crossed for the first of his double three minutes into the second half.

The Blues then had replacement forward Cameron Dowling sin binned but were able to hold off the Bulls comeback.

Southcity got within 10 points when Rose scored his fourth with 18 minutes remaining but Bristow was thrilled with the side's composure.

"They would score but we kept getting one back on them, wouldn't lie down and kept getting over the top of them," Bristow said.

"We got some good tries in the end to help us win."

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While Southcity have shown they've got plenty of points in them this season it was the Blues back line which stepped up to the fore.

Six of their eight tries were scored by outside backs including two the last six minutes to seal the win.

Bristow rated it one of their best performances of the season.

"We leaked a lot of points but it was one of our better efforts for the year," he said.

"I'm really proud of them."

After the late withdrawal of five-eighth Jacob Toppin (knee) compounded having front rower Jed Pearce (knee) sidelined, Bristow was thrilled with how the makeshift approach worked with Jordan Anderson having the sole playmaking responsibilities.

"Jeddy is a huge loss and then late last night to lose Toppin and completely change our playing style is awesome," he said.

"Especially after being a man down there for 10 minutes with the sin binned but we still turned them away."

Southcity's loss was soured by an elbow injury to star centre Cody Hodge.

Hodge picked up the complaint in the opening minutes after being dragged down while making a break and battled on to half-time but never returned.

It's just one of the concerns for Rose heading into a clash with Temora on Saturday.

"We didn't complete the best and you just can't do that in the bigger games," Rose said. "We just shot ourselves in the foot a little bit."

Meanwhile Tumut will be looking to make it two wins over Albury in three weeks when they host the Thunder at Twickenham on Saturday.