Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby

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Finally, it's over:

St John's (Hastings) 0 - 82 St John's (Hamilton)

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Hastings' kicker misses a relatively easy kick at goal.

Edit: apparently, he didn't miss. They've changed the score on screen.

15 - 7 Hastings

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Midfielder Tali Ioasa scores for Hastings. The commentator says he has a twin in the team, the openside flanker.

Conversion missed.

20 - 7

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Half time:

Hastings Boys 20 - 7 Napier Boys

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Half time:

Unfortunately, FAHS scored just before HT. Lindisfarne was the better team for most of that first half.

Feilding HS 12 - 7 Lindisfarne College

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Hastings no. 19 yellow carded.

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Try to one of Napier's fatties from the pick and go. Great conversion.

20 - 14 Hastings

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My suspicion that Lindisfarne only has a team for one good half is being confirmed.

They're now trailing 7 - 26 to Feilding.

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Hastings could have kicked for goal to make the gap bigger than 6 points, but they go for the line-out.

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Great try to Hastings' no. 6!

Although the line-out didn't go well, ultimately it was the right decision.

Coby Deacon is the kicker; he misses the conversion.

25 - 14 Hastings.

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Fulltime! A good, well-deserved win to Hastings. Although it has to be said that it was again mostly handling errors letting Napier down. If they'd fixed that, it would have been a lot closer.

FT: Hastings Boys 25 - 14 Napier Boys

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The downside of having two Bay teams in Super 8 is that once one of them beats the other, it helps Hamilton on the competition table. Esp with Hastings already having suffered one loss, it would have been better for us as a region if Napier had won.

Now, they basically are still in with a shot, but both have to beat Hamilton to be able to finish top of the table and get a home Super 8 final.

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:

Fulltime! A good, well-deserved win to Hastings. Although it has to be said that it was again mostly handling errors letting Napier down. If they'd fixed that, it would have been a lot closer.

FT: Hastings Boys 25 - 14 Napier Boys

Woohoo. Annoyingly I couldn’t watch this one, so as ever thanks for the updates.

Good win for the plucky underdogs over the Crusaders of the Bay.

I assume the conditions were better than what Hastings had to deal with last weekend?

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@Nepia Yep, much better. It was sunny and it didn't look like the wind was a factor in this game. Maybe the ground was a bit soft (they had muddy shirts), but that was all.

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FT: Feilding HS 43 - 7 Lindisfarne College

[Higgins]

@Nepia Yeah, quite a lot of rain overnight but as Stargazer said not much wind to speak of. I did not need gumboots at Whitmore Park and did not get my shoes even the slightest bit wet so things are certainly better weather and ground wise in HB at the moment than in many other parts of the country. Because neither @stockcar86 or myself were present the game does not really mean anything!

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Just saw this. HBT couldn't be bothered to write a proper match report of the biggest Hawke's Bay school derby of the season, unfortunately.

Hawkes Bay Today, Sport

HBHS head off NBHS in local rugby derby

A pair of early tries put Hastings on the front foot

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:

Just saw this. HBT couldn't be bothered to write a proper match report of the biggest Hawke's Bay school derby of the season, unfortunately.

Hawkes Bay Today, Sport

HBHS head off NBHS in local rugby derby

A pair of early tries put Hastings on the front foot

Reverse the result and it would be a two page write up.

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@Nepia Three pages if they ask me to do it.

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