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No amount of adjectives feel appropriate to describe how brutal Bathurst Panthers' offensive game was in an 88-14 Group 10 premier league trouncing of hosts Blayney Bears on Sunday.
Panthers capitalised on a woeful Bears completion rate to run in 15 tries across the course of the match - five of which belonged to centre Blake Lawson.
The visitors needed a gigantic win to keep pace with ladder leaders Orange Hawks and thanks to the 74-point margin Panthers have kept the race for first place burning strong.
Panthers' attack was made to look all the more lethal by an abysmal showing from Blayney but there was no doubt the Bathurst men brought a potent attacking game to King George VI Oval.
"We had to put a big score on to get back near the top and give Hawks a run going into the finals, but we wanted to work on a few things. Even though the scoreline doesn't suggest it, there's things we still need to work on," Panthers captain-coach Doug Hewitt said.
"Those 14 points will be a talking point but the boys we doing a lot of things right. Most of our plays were coming off today.
"There was fluency there, and we've been lacking that. Once we get a roll on we look alright with the ball in hand."
There were early signs of the game maintaining a competitive edge when the clubs exchanged early tries through Lawson and Carter Hirini.
That notion was quickly dispelled.
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Jake Betts and Nick Loader crossed for tries on consecutive Panthers sets before Hewitt slipped through a number of Bears defenders to blow the score out to 24-6.
An errant Blayney pass close to the Panthers line was snatched out of the air by Louis Murphy who sprinted down the other end of the ground to pile on the pain.
Chris Shepherd gave the home crowd something to cheer about when he broke through the line from close range but the joy was short-lived.
Blayney knocked the ball on from the kick-off and just a matter of seconds later Lawson was over for his second try.
Willie Wright's conversion made it a 36-10 game at the break.
It took just two minutes for Panthers to keep their run going.
The Bears' failure to wrap up the ball saw a number of Panthers offloads made, eventually leading to a try for Wright in the left corner.
Panthers were almost scoring at will by this point, as Kevin Murray finished a set play to the left side before Lawson threw aside several defenders to complete his hat-trick in the 49th minute.
McKenzie Atkins got in on the scoring action shortly after and Lawson then brought up try number four in anti-climatic fashion, strolling over for an easy try thanks to Blayney's confusion over a tap-and-go penalty.
Lawson pushed his personal tally out to 20 when he waltzed between the uprights in the 65th minute.
A line break from the ensuing kick-off set up Hewitt for his second try and a 76-10 lead.
Nelson Daplin's consolation try was sandwiched by scoring efforts from Louis Murphy and Josh Small.