One of the Toronto Wolfpack’s goals is to bring Canadians into rugby league. They didn’t expect it would work this quickly.

With all the good performances in the team’s latest victory, a 62-10 domination of the Gloucestershire All Golds at Lamport Stadium, all anyone was talking about were the ones delivered by two Canadians.

One of them, Rhys Jacks, is Canadian by ancestry. Though he is from Queensland, Australia, he does play internationally for Canada. The other is Quinn Ngawati, who made his professional debut on Saturday.

Ngawati is the first professional rugby league player born, raised, and trained in Canada. Despite being only 18, he is a 6-foot-4, 200 pound specimen who entered the match 54 minutes in and immediately gave a good impression of himself.

“I thought it was the right time to put him in,” Wolfpack head coach Paul Rowley said. “When we put him in, he answered any questions we might have had.”

“I think the whole day is about Quinn Ngawati.”

Ngawati was solid, taking the ball hard into the All Golds defence and defending very solidly himself. And he looked very mature for a young man who was finishing high-school classes a few weeks ago.

“The butterflies were more before the game,” the native of Victoria, B.C. said. “Once I saw the guys out there doing their jobs it definitely gave me confidence to just do my job and play my role.”

Jacks was another star in the match in which 7,139 fans got to relax and enjoy yet another Wolfpack domination. And they were not the only North Americans to get into the action. American Ryan Burroughs got the first try just six minutes in.

Then Craig Hall intercepted a pass and raced 70 yards for the second score and Jonny Pownall added another one shortly thereafter.

Jacks then went to work, setting up Richard Whiting for a try after dodging defenders, then getting his own name on the scoresheet a few minutes later.

“From the moment Jacks joined us, he’s got better and better,” Rowley said. “And he’s a more accomplished player now than he was before.”

Hall scored a second try as the Wolfpack took a 36-6 lead to the halftime break. Steve Parry gave the visitors a score.

Fuifui Moimoi took a good feed from Quentin Laulu Togaga’e for the first score of the second half. Moimoi later returned the favour, setting up QLT for a try. In between, Bob Beswick, Greg Worthington and Steve Crossley added to Toronto’s scoring. Lewis Reece got a score for the All Golds, the Cheltenham-based side who showed a good attitude throughout.

The Wolfpack are hurting. They lost Sean Penkywicz on Friday after an injury in practice and in the game, Pownall tweaked his knee. But despite that, the team is now 14-0, blowing through their path towards the next tier of English Rugby League, which they should achieve after the Super Eights round ends in September. Director of rugby Brian Noble noted the team is simply dealing with the fact they were asked to begin life in the third tier.

“We are jumping through the hoops we were given to jump through,” he said.

The Wolfpack finish the regular-season portion of their schedule next Saturday at Lamport against the one-win Hemel Stags. Kickoff for that match has also been moved to 4:30 p.m.