25-05-2025
Clutha demolishes Heriot at Club Day
Clutha has well and truly put an exclamation mark on their season in front of a huge crowd at their Club Day in Balclutha.
Clutha has beaten Heriot 81-12 in the most one-sided match of the season so far.
The first half was a true blur as Clutha ran out to a 34-0 lead midway through the first half with Heriot seemingly left in the changing rooms.
Once the visitors managed to make their tackles, hold on to the ball and get through some phases, they scored just before the break to go into halftime 34-5 down.
The second half saw Heriot score early before Clutha grew an extra limb and rolled over the top of a tiring and unenthusiastic Heriot side.
Clutha winger Junior Meafua helped himself to four tries.
Fullback Dallas Kupa-Pickering scored a hat-trick and hit four conversions for a personal tally of 23 points.
Toko has held on to their second place position with a dusty 31-27 win over Lawrence at Lawrence.
The visitors started the match strongly with some early points before their poor discipline allowed Lawrence back into the match.
Toko led 21-12 at halftime but fell away in the second half as the home side piled on the pressure.
Lawrence was the better team in the second half, but their goal kicking left a lot to be desired and ultimately that was the difference on the day.
Toko scored four tries and converted all of them. Lawrence scored five tries but could only manage to convert one.
West Taieri has turned around a halftime deficit to beat Owaka 45-21 in their match played at Outram.
Owaka piled the pressure on a West Taieri side who threatened to crumble in the first half.
The home side treasured what little possession they had in the first half with two tries but allowed Owaka to lead throughout through poor discipline and a lack of intensity.
Owaka led the match 16-14 at halftime.
West Taieri started the second half better with two early tries.
This gave them confidence and with some calculated substitutions, they finished far better and deserved their win.
Owaka could only manage to field 20 players and suffered some early injuries in what was a huge display of ticker from them.
Crescent has hammered Clutha Valley 56-28 to lock away the John Cross Cup in their match played at Clydevale.
Crescent started well yet again and had two tries chalked up inside the first ten minutes of the match.
A first half double by midfield Ethan Edwards and some hard running by centre Jonathan Muagututia saw Crescent lead 36-11 at halftime.
The home side started the second half better and opened the scoring before Crescent once again took control.
Their bench made a sizable impact and kept the score ticking over as they cruised their way to victory.
Fullback Kairus Booth had a huge impact in the match with some fantastic territorial kicking as well as some strong line breaks.
By Francis Parker
