The coaching staff were delighted with the win which came without the services of Country representative Dennis Moran.

“Winning in Wellington is very difficult as they are a tough, physical side,’ coach Will Harris said.

“However, our guys played excellent football at times and gutsed out a good win.”

With Moran out of the side, Epi Neiyoko slotted into dummy half and opened the scoring with a strong run from the base of the ruck.

Wellington hit back to trail 6-4 before both teams played some good, solid football throughout the first half.

Zander Peden broke the deadlock and gave the Spacemen a 12-4 lead at the break.

Harris was not happy with his side’s completion rate and the Spacemen responded with a try blitz to seal the game after half time.

Justin Stevenson’s 40/20 kick put Parkes on the attack and skipper James Hunt barged over next to the posts.

Semisi Tora then made a big run after a Brad Waser offload and from the next play, he also crashed over for a 24-4 lead.

Wellington scored after a couple of penalties but a big break from Brad Sanders allowed Keaton Harris to deliver a nice ball to Steven Dunn who scored.

From the ensuing kick off Parkes were in again as Brendan Sense made it 36-8 after a strong run from Ilisoni Vonometeiratu and the game was sewn up.

Wellington scored a couple of late tries to bring the score back to 36-18.

Reserve grade and under 18s both went to the Cowboys, 22-18 and 20-18.