The record-breaking 2021 NRL season continued for Gerringong's Reuben Garrick on Sunday, as he chalked up another rugby league milestone.
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Fresh off becoming Manly-Warringah's highest-ever single-season point-scorer, Garrick became the first player in rugby league to score 20 tries and 100 goals in a premiership season, after landing six conversions in the club's 36-18 win against Canterbury-Bankstown at Redcliffe.
This achievement follows numerous other landmark moments for the winger, including equalling the record of 30 points in a match shared by Ron Rowles (1954) and Matthew Ridge (1996), by scoring two tries and kicking 11 goals against Canterbury at Bankwest Stadium in July.
Others include moving into equal third with Mike Eden (1982) and Matthew Ridge (1994,1996) for most goals (11) in a match, elevating into equal ninth place with Michael O'Connor on 578 points on the list of players to have scored more than 500 points for Manly and joining the Sea Eagles' four-try club, after his efforts against the Gold Coast Titans in June.
The 24-year-old, after those six conversions against the Bulldogs on Sunday, now has his eyes firmly fixed on another rugby league record.
He now sits just eight shy of Bulldogs' Hazem El Masri's 2004 mark of 294 points in the regular season.
The Kiama High School alumnus, who is signed through until the end of 2023, needs eight points to tie or nine points to break El Masri's record as the greatest regular-season individual scorer against the Cowboys on Sunday, in the 2021 premiership's final round.
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