The Reef Raiders went down to Cairns Wanderers 13-27 at home in Port Douglas on Saturday in Far North Queensland Rugby Union.

The match started with a tense nil-all stalemate for the majority of the first half until Wanderers broke the game open with a flurry of tries.

The Raiders finished the game off stronger, but the damage had already been done by then.

Try scorers were Martiniano Consalvo and Kane Gray.

The Raiders play away against Southside Crusaders this Saturday at 4pm.

Meanwhile, Reef Raider Dereck Letcher has made the North Queensland representative team for the Queensland Country Championships to be played in late June.

The Mossman Sharks came within a stone’s throw of causing the upset of the round, going down 12-14 to undefeated top team Southern Suburbs at their Coronation Park home ground.

The Sharks could not stop Cockatoos halfback James Frazer, who snared most of the opposition’s score on his own.

Mossman has the bye this weekend.