Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby

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Games on Sat 3 July 2021:

Super 8
Hastings Boys U14 v Rotorua Boys U14 - k/o 9.15am
Hastings Boys U15 v Rotorua Boys U15 - k/o 10.30am
Hastings Boys 2nd XV v Rotorua Boys 2nd XV - k/o 10.30am
Hastings Boys 1st XV v Rotorua Boys 1st XV - k/o 12.00pm - Livestream: https://sideline.live/play/14624

Napier Boys 2nd XV v Hamilton Boys 2nd XV - k/o 10.30am
Napier Boys 1st XV v Hamilton Boys 1st XV - k/o 12.00pm - Livestream: https://sideline.live/play/14625

CNI
Lindisfarne College v St Peter's Cambridge - k/o 11.00am
St John's College (Hastings) v Francis Douglas MC - k/o 11.00am

So all our top 4 schools play at home; do we have enough refs? It wouldn't surprise me if there will be refs from the surrounding provinces lending a hand.

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Napier hot on attack; close to scoring and Hamilton infringing, finally losing a man to the bin.

Rotorua dominating in the other game.

No scores, yet.

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Rotorua score the first points of the game against Hastings.

0 - 3

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Napier unlucky. Hamilton's centre intercepts and scores the first try. Completely against the run of play.

0 - 7 Hamilton

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After 20 minutes:

Hastings 0 - 3 Rotorua
Napier 0 - 10 Hamilton

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The stream in Hastings isn't very good. During the buffering, Hastings must have scored an unconverted try, but now they're back at the other end of the field.

5 - 3 Hastings

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Wow, blatant foul play by a Hamilton player, not spotted by the ref (who constantly has his back to where he should be watching). Afa Moleli the victim.

Play continues.

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Moleli has his revenge. After a great break, his run ends just before the Hamilton try line, and one of his team mates goes over.

7 - 10 Hamilton.

In the other game, it's still 5 - 3 to Hastings.

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Damn, good try to Rototua's no. 14. Some glitches in Hastings' defence.

5 - 10 Rotorua

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Hastings have scored a penalty goal.

8 - 10 to Rotorua

It's half time in the other game:

Napier 7 - 10 Hamilton

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Just before half time, Rotorua are lucky to get away with just a penalty and a warning.

Hastings score a penalty goal and it's half time:

Hastings 11 - 10 Rotorua

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CNI - full time scores:

Lindisfarne 12 - 22 St Peter's Cambridge
St John's Hastings 25 - 15 Francis Douglas

That's a great result for St John's!

[Nepia]

Come on Hastings!

And I guess come on Napier ...

[Higgins]

@nepia I say it the other way round!!! But we are HB first and foremost so must support each other no matter how hard it might be on occasions.

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Damn and yay!

Both Hamilton and Hastings have scored!

Napier 7 - 17 Hamilton
Hastings 18 - 10 Rotorua

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Damn and yay, again!

Hamilton score another try, and Hastings go for the 3 points. Hastings no. 3, 7 and 8 are excellent.

Hamilton leads 22 to 7. Come on Napier!

Hastings leads 21 to 10.

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Cooper is a clever captain. Keeps the scoreboard going, even if it's in 3s.

24 - 10 Hastings

They're parked in Rotorua's 22.

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Napier has enough attacking flair, but - just like last week - handling errors let them down.

[Nepia]

How much time to go @Stargazer? I need to go out for hikoi before the games this afternoon - but am sitting here following your commentary.

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Errr, try to Rotorua.

Hastings now leads 24 to 17, with about 13-15 minutes to go.