Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby
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By all means, Hastings seemed to score but the ref says Tali Ioasa knocked on. Bugger, bugger, bugger.
Full time: Hastings Boys 21 - 26 Hamilton Boys
Hastings so deserved that win, but it's not to be!
No Hawke's Bay school in the Super 8 Final this year.
Rotorua has beaten NP 26 - 10.
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Both Hastings Boys and Napier Boys will now focus on winning the Hurricanes Cup, which is the qualifier for the Top 4. Hastings' Boys will go in as first seed from the Super 8 and play the Wellington runners up (whoever they're going to be).
Napier Boys will have to wait whether there will be a challenger for the semi-final spot against the Wellington winners. Most likely that challenge will come from Palmerston North, who they've already beaten this season. It's kind of ridiculous that Palmy may get a second shot, but very rarely there are challenges from other schools. The challenges were originally meant for schools from the Hurricanes regions that don't play Super 8, but they never do (thinking, particularly, of CNI schools from the Hurricanes region like Feilding HS or Whanganui Collegiate) or even lower ranked schools.
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@Stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:
By all means, Hastings seemed to score but the ref says Tali Ioasa knocked on. Bugger, bugger, bugger.
Full time: Hastings Boys 21 - 26 Hamilton Boys
Hastings so deserved that win, but it's not to be!
No Hawke's Bay school in the Super 8 Final this year.
Rotorua has beaten NP 26 - 10.
So close. That loss to Palmy hd a big impact as it was a game they should have won.
Hopefully they progress through to the Top 4 and get another shot at the evil empire.
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@Stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:
@Nepia Yep, and the only reason Rotorua is in the Super 8 Final is because of bonus points. They didn't win more games.
They did over Hastings but not over Napier. Napier had more wins than Hastings but far fewer bonus points, personally that makes Hastings finishing higher than them on the table even sweeter, as after all Napier is the HB evil empire.
TBF, only three games count - Top 4 final, Super 8 final, and v Napier Boys. So 1/3 for the season so far.
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Two results from Te Aute:
A 18 - 15 win against Hato Pāora College in their traditional on 7 August 2022.
A 15 - 17 loss to Lindisfarne College, yesterday (Wed 10 August). I doubt this was Lindisfarne's 1st XV, because they have their last CNI game on Saturday. -
This article is from Sunday, 7 August 2022:
Hastings' hopes snuffed out
Hastings beaten in big schools match, but Te Aute wins in smaller schools' clash
Edit: Te Aute prop Karleil Hewitt looks huge on the photo in that article! I wonder whether he's related to Norm?
