Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

Rotorua score the first points of the game against Hastings.

0 - 3

[Stargazer]

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

0 - 7 Hamilton

[Stargazer]

After 20 minutes:

Hastings 0 - 3 Rotorua
Napier 0 - 10 Hamilton

[Stargazer]

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

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

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

5 - 10 Rotorua

[Stargazer]

Hastings have scored a penalty goal.

8 - 10 to Rotorua

It's half time in the other game:

Napier 7 - 10 Hamilton

[Stargazer]

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

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

Damn and yay!

Both Hamilton and Hastings have scored!

Napier 7 - 17 Hamilton
Hastings 18 - 10 Rotorua

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

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.

[Stargazer]

Errr, try to Rotorua.

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

[Nepia]

@stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:

Errr, try to Rotorua.

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

I downvote this post.