Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby
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School GIRL rugby: a composite Hawke's Bay U15 girls team has won a school girls tournament in Wellington last week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=11921191
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Good article about and interview with Hastings' Josiah Tevita-Metcalfe. I've been very impressed when watching him play this year and am quite surprised he wasn't among the players signed to the HB Academy earlier this year. I haven't heard about another union picking him up, so I hope there's still room for him. Not sure whether this has been his first year in the 1st XV and whether he's leaving school or returning for another year.
Big man, big heart - Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe
“I just saw the line and went for it. A push in the back from Danny Toala helped get me over,” Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe recalls of his winning try for Hastings Boys’ High School in the...
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Condor Sevens results:
Hastings BHS 45 - 7 Botany Coll
Napier BHS 26 - 14 Francis Douglas MC
Hastings BHS 50 - 12 St Peter's College (Gore)
Napier BHS 14 - 17 Rotorua BHS
Hastings BHS 10 - 22 Tauranga Boys
Napier BHS 56 - 0 Cambridge HSOnly Napier v Rotorua and Hastings v Tauranga were televised.
Napier could have won their game when they had 2 more players on the field than Rotorua due to yellow cards, but failed to take their chances and then lost a player to the bin themselves. Rotorua had some really big boys in their team and it was a very physical game.Hastings lost deservedly. They were quite passive at times and just couldn't get through the Tauranga defence. Hastings seemed to miss a lot of their first choice players. I haven't seen a team list, but Flanders, Fakatava and Toala didn't play and it showed. Flanders was one of their best last year. McClutchie & Naholo were playing well, but some of their team mates didn't have the same fire power as the missing players.
Hastings will play in the Plate Quarter Finals against New Plymouth at 10.40am tomorrow (Sunday).
Napier takes on hosts Sacret Heart College in the Cup Quarter Finals at 12.00pm. I expect this game to be televised live on Sky Sport 2. -
@stargazer said in Schoolboy Rugby:
Condor Sevens results:
Hastings BHS 45 - 7 Botany Coll
Napier BHS 26 - 14 Francis Douglas MC
Hastings BHS 50 - 12 St Peter's College (Gore)
Napier BHS 14 - 17 Rotorua BHS
Hastings BHS 10 - 22 Tauranga Boys
Napier BHS 56 - 0 Cambridge HSOnly Napier v Rotorua and Hastings v Tauranga were televised.
Napier could have won their game when they had 2 more players on the field than Rotorua due to yellow cards, but failed to take their chances and then lost a player to the bin themselves. Rotorua had some really big boys in their team and it was a very physical game.Hastings lost deservedly. They were quite passive at times and just couldn't get through the Tauranga defence. Hastings seemed to miss a lot of their first choice players. I haven't seen a team list, but Flanders, Fakatava and Toala didn't play and it showed. Flanders was one of their best last year. McClutchie & Naholo were playing well, but some of their team mates didn't have the same fire power as the missing players.
Hastings will play in the Plate Quarter Finals against New Plymouth at 10.40am tomorrow (Sunday).
Napier takes on hosts Sacred Heart College in the Cup Quarter Finals at 12.00pm. I expect this game to be televised live on Sky Sport 2.Maybe they have left school thus no longer eligible?
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Are you watching '86 as I think we are up at 12.00pm against the
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By the way we got dealt to by the Wildcats in the return race down here last night so things could be better! -
@higgins said in Schoolboy Rugby:
Are you watching '86 as I think we are up at 12.00pm against the
-M(Sacred Heart College) part of your NHSOB-M mob? Just watching the Timaru v Scots College game as a warm up. I don't think the Scots part of the name has anything to do with Scotland but with distant ancestry from there I will have to (grudgingly) give them my support just in case there is a connection.
By the way we got dealt to by the Wildcats in the return race down here last night so things could be better!Haha, not sure what you're talking about, but you'll have discovered in the mean time that Napier Boys are now playing Sacred Heart. Up 12-5 at half time.
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Thanks, looks like I won't be heading to the Basin then until later this afternoon. Yesterday was a good occasion but today would have been just as nice, especially seeing Tom Blundell bringing up his first teat century in his first test innings.
The result was a bit of a surprise as there did not look to be any player in our team that had outright gas but what was sacrificed there was made up in the extra grunt and power that gave our guys a couple of tries. Will need a bit of extra speed against Scots after watching what they have to offer. -
The organisation seems to have made some weird changes to the draw.
The Cup SF are now:
Scots Coll v Taurange Boys, k/o 1.00pm
Napier BHS v Hamilton BHS, still k/o at 1.20pmThis doesn't make sense at all.
The first two quarter-final winners were Tauranga and Hamilton, the last two Scots and Napier. The original draw had the Cup SF as Tauranga v Hamilton and Scots v Napier. They have changed that now. This means that Scots has less recovery time and Napier gets an arguably stronger opponent in Hamilton that gets a bit more recovery time. -
Scots got home with a try right at the end of the game. Hamilton look like they will be too big and fast for them in the final. I will wander down to the Basin Reserve (probably abuot a dozen minutes walk from my flat), to take in the last three hours in the hope that I can bring some good luck to our bowling attack.
