Egan started the game as halfback before moving into dummy half towards the end of the first half.

This move paved the way for Egan to continue with his good run of getting across the try line. 

Darting out of dummy half with two minutes to the break, Egan showed some individual magic to somehow reach out and score.

The conversion from Dylan Edwards meant the Panthers took a 28-6 lead into halftime.

Wayde’s father Kyle Egan said he was nearly tackled but all of a sudden his arm popped out to score.

The Egan family were on hand to witness the devastating loss with lots of other Lithgow locals who had come to support the young playmaker.

Mr Egan said the team was shattered at the loss especially with the way they did not shut the Roosters out of the game in the second half, something the young Panthers have been able to do all year against other teams.

“They started off like a house on fire but then the second half was just terrible.”

Wayde Egan was not on the field for the final 10 minutes where the Panthers had two opportunities to tie the game up as he was undergoing concussion tests.

His father said he had copped a knock while going into a tackle. He said Wayde was still a bit dazed after the game but pulled up fine from it.

The Sydney Roosters win was the biggest boilover in the brief history of the under-20s competition.

The Tricolours looked dead in the water when they went into halftime down 28-6 against the raging favourites Panthers and had key man Grant Garvey sidelined with a shoulder injury on Sunday.

But as they did in a dramatic preliminary final win the previous week, the Roosters defied the odds by keeping the league's best attacking team scoreless in the second half.

The Roosters also went on a try scoring rampage with two quick tries after halftime that put the Panthers on the back foot.

Mr Egan said the Panthers then struggled to follow their usual game plan.

He said they were not completing their sets and took some bad options including a quick tap instead of a goal attempt 35 metres out, after a penalty in dying stages of the game.

Another chance in the 77th minute saw the Roosters penalised for a shoulder charge and Edwards line up a shot to level the game.

It was from out wide and he sent it to the right of the uprights and the Roosters remained in the lead.

Wayde Egan will play again with the Penrith Panthers next year after extending his contract into 2017.