CSU Mungoes hammer Portland Colts to earn New Era Cup grand final hosting rights

Mungoes put together an offensive masterclass to run out 64-10 winners, setting up a date at home with either Colts or minor semi-final winners Orange Barbarians in a fortnight's time.

Ten different players got on the score sheet for the Mungoes in a one-sided affair while the Colts were their own worst enemy with a poor completion rate coming back to constantly bite them.

CSU halfback and captain Billy Dickinson said the team has now achieved one of its major aims for the season, and now there's only one goal left to go.

"That's what we've been talking about all year. It was the dream for us. It's the first time it's happened since I've been here. We're really looking forward to it," he said.

"We expected it to be a lot tougher than that. Nobody could have picked that margin. Portland are a great team. We just had one of our best days of the year today.

"It was like a dream out there with everything falling into place. It's the right time of year for that sort of stuff to be happening."

It took just four minutes for the Mungoes to start their onslaught, kicking it off with a Joseph Heien try off a first tackle set play.

On CSU's next set Joeseph Coady punished the Colts for letting a bomb hit the ground as he out-jumped an opponent to grab the ball score under the posts.

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The hosts pushed the score out to 16-0 within the first 10 minutes thanks to a Dickinson solo effort.

Slick passages of play from the Mungoes led to Callum Flanagan and Lachie Balcome tries and a 26-0 lead.

CSU continued to keep their score ahead of the minutes elapsed when Heien was put into space to complete his brace.

Portland finally made their breakthrough on the back of a successful short kick-off attempt as Stephen Bender shrugged off several defenders to score next to the uprights.

CSU didn't relax with the 32-6 lead at the break - they'd run in three more tries inside the opening 10 minutes of the new half.

Heien's pass back inside set up Josh Byron for a try, Isaac Nicholls cleaned up a poor pass to find the Portland try line and Blake Schaefer sprinted 60 metres down the left wing to help the Mungoes reach the half century.

Colts briefly stopped the CSU flow of points when Luke Bradford finished off a nice series of passes to the right wing.

Their joy was short lived when Nev Turner was sin binned for a professional foul.

Mungoes were quick to punish, putting lock Jacob Watkin over for a try in the right corner.

Callum Flannagan got on the end of a chargedown to score before Heien surrendered what would have been a hat-trick try to give Daniel Kennedy the easiest try of his life between the sticks.

Kennedy converted his effort to end the game.