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NZ Herald
2 days ago
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- NZ Herald
Losses for Ngāti Porou East Coast, Poverty Bay in Heartland warm-up games
K.C. Wilson, pictured playing for Ngāti Porou East Coast in their King's Birthday derby match against Poverty Bay, had a busy weekend on the rugby field. Wilson scored a try as the Coast were beaten 40-31 by Eastern Bay of Plenty on Saturday at Tolaga Bay. He was back in action on Sunday, also scoring a try as his Ruatōria team beat TVC 19-14 in a Barry Cup sub-union defence at Ruatōria. Photo / Paul Rickard
NZ Herald
4 days ago
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- NZ Herald
NPC: Magpies aim to defend proud record under the roof in Dunedin
The Magpies have dominated in recent times, winning 10 of 13 matches dating back to a Ranfurly Shield challenge win in Dunedin in 2013, half of those wins being in Dunedin. Other important Magpies wins were a championship division semifinal a week later, another championship semifinal win, by 44-39 in Napier in 2019, after it had been 31-31 at the end of the first 80 minutes, and a 28-9 result in another Ranfurly Shield challenge in Dunedin, in 2020. The most recent match was Hawke's Bay's 33-32 win in Napier two years ago. The Magpies head to Dunedin on Saturday with no injury issues hanging over from the game against Counties-Manukau, although James conceded on Friday morning there were still two training sessions to go, including the captain's run in Napier. Last Sunday's squad of 23 has been retained. Asked about needing to keep his squad's feet on the ground after an eight-tries performance rated as one of the best of the first weekend, James said: 'Every week's a new challenge, and Otago play a very different game than Counties-Manukau'. 'They've got a good 15 around the park,' he said. Established forward pack members Pouri Rakete-Stones, Jacob Devery, Geoff Cridge, Tom Parsons and Devan Flanders have about 370 Magpies appearances between them, highlighting the 'consistency' James rates as a key factor in the team's hopes. Meanwhile, two Hawke's Bay sides play NPC Heartland teams on Saturday. The Hawke's Bay Development team plays an annual match against Poverty Bay at Park Island on Saturday, at 1pm, and Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke's Bay Māori play Wairarapa-Bush in Masterton. The Central Hawke's Bay sub-union ended its season being beaten 66-26 by Heartland side Ngati Porou East Coast last Saturday at Takapau, and on Sunday, the Wairoa sub-union's Barry Cup reign ended with a 21-10 loss to Ruatoria in Wairoa. Meanwhile, the Napier Boys' High School First XV has a big job ahead in a Hurricanes region national secondary schools championship playoff against Super 8 winners Palmerston North BHS, in Palmerston North, on Saturday. Hastings BHS has a home game against Gisborne BHS. The Lindisfarne College First XV's hopes of winning the Central North Island (CNI) Schools competition ended with a 29-20 loss to Feilding Agricultural High School in Feilding last weekend. The team now has a playoff against Wesley College on the finals day in Taupō on Saturday. The Magpies' next game will be against North Harbour, at McLean Park, Napier, on August 16, starting at 7.10pm, with the Hawke's Bay Tui playing on the same pitch beforehand in their first Farah Palmer Cup women's championship match this season. Doug Laing has been a reporter for more than 52 years, more than 40 of them in Hawke's Bay, at the Central Hawke's Bay Press, the Napier Daily Telegraph and Hawke's Bay Today, since its establishment in 1999. He has covered most aspects of general news and sport, and is based in Napier.
NZ Herald
04-08-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Gisborne weekend sports scoreboard
Ruatōria sub-union team members (from left) Hone Manuel, Mahue Mauheni and co-captain Te Aotahi Tuhaka after their side defeated Wairoa 21-10 in a Barry Cup challenge in Wairoa at the weekend.
NZ Herald
30-07-2025
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- NZ Herald
Teacher's deep dive into running Ross Shield rugby in Wairoa
A reunion of the team, one of nine Wairoa sides listed as winners on the Honours Board dating back over 120 years, is planned. It will be a particularly poignant gathering of the players, now aged over 70, having apparently never had a team photo with the trophy. Much of the memorabilia held by the Blake whanau, which has been represented on the fields multi-generationally, was lost in a homestead fire, including Bill Blake's own Wairoa cap from 1944 and the caps of sevens sons who wore the green jersey between 1975 and 1985. Whakatope, whose own sports prowess was in netball and basketball, said during lunch-break at her kura kast week: 'If there's anything that Wairoa needs it is that we all band together. Since Wairoa last hosted this tournament in 2019, we've all been through quite a bit. 'I put my hand up,' she said. 'I'm new to the Ross Shield, new to rugby.' Things started late, in May, and there were just 'eight weeks to go' in a town where the performance of the organisers and this year's team run parallel in importance. First, she had to start finding out 'what it was all about' and was surprised, in a good way, to learn what the Ross Shield tournament means to the families, including her own, and the district. The Blake whanau at the 2023 Ross Shield tournament in Napier in 2023, for the recapping of the primary schools rugby patron and his seven sons whose Wairoa Ross Shield team caps were lost in a fire. Photo / NZME She made a beeline for such rugby stalwarts as Sid Ropitini, Toby Taylor and Wayne Hema, and organisers of last year's tournament. That was held in Waipukurau and won for a third year in a row by Napier, in a continuation of the Napier-Hastings domination since Wairoa shared the title with Hastings East 31 years ago. Amid the horrors that the weather has thrown at Wairoa since the last Ross Shield tournament there, fingers are crossed that Lambton Square will be in good nick for three games a day. Senior Wairoa sub-union defences for the Barry Cup are being played at other venues, such as the first on July 20 at Māhia, to help keep the square's turf fresh for what will be the biggest event of any sort in Wairoa this year. Players and officials will be accommodated at the only two motels in town and at marae as far away as Māhia, more than 40km from Wairoa. At least six Hawke's Bay referees, mainly from Napier-Hastings, will officiate as referees or associate referees, with three needed per game. They're expected to include appointments officer Mark Johnson and fellow career school teacher, principal, and Premier grade referee Martin Hantz. A particular feature will be the end-of-tournament handing over of the tournament's first mauri stone to organisers of the 2026 tournament to be held in Hastings. It's being provided by Ngāti Pāhauwera as a symbol of protection and strength for the tournament, one of the last under-13 weight-restricted rugby tournaments in New Zealand. The tournament has outlasted such others as the upper North Island's inter-provincial Roller Mills tournament, canned in 2019 as the Northern Region Rugby Council stopped enabling provincial competition for teams under the age of 16. Doug Laing is a senior reporter based in Napier with Hawke's Bay Today, and has 52 years of journalism experience, 42 of them in Hawke's Bay, in news gathering, including breaking news, sports, local events, issues, and personalities.
NZ Herald
21-07-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Wairoa: Nine tries in muddy Mahia Barry Cup defence
The spoils of a hard day's work are obvious as Wairoa celebrates the Barry Cup defence win over Matakaoa in the mud at Mahia on Sunday. Photo / Supplied Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech. The spoils of a hard day's work are obvious as Wairoa celebrates the Barry Cup defence win over Matakaoa in the mud at Mahia on Sunday. Photo / Supplied The Wairoa Rugby Sub-Union has opened its representative season 2025 season with another successful defence of the Barry Cup. Wairoa beat East Coast side Matakaoa 55-14 on Sunday at Kaiuku Domain, Mahia, continuing a stranglehold on the trophy since a successful challenge against Poverty Bay side Waikohu three years ago. The Barry Cup tradition of sub-union rugby from Wairoa, to Poverty Bay, East Coast and Eastern Bay of Plenty has been kept alive with Wairoa hosting about four defences a season, with teams travelling up to 310km each away, despite the difficulties getting sufficient numbers. Conditions were wet and muddy after recent rain and more during the game, in which the challengers stung Wairoa early with a try from an intercept soon after the home side fielded the ball from the kick-off. But the greens were on top by halftime, a feature being the man-of-the match performance by Kaihau Pasikala, who plays Hawke's Bay Premier rugby for Havelock North and scored three tries, starting the game at lock.
