Hurricanes U18s competition and National Knockout Cup matches tomorrow

It’s the second round of the Hurricanes U18s competition for the Trustbank Central Shield tomorrow, while the National U85kg Knockout Cup returns with quarterfinals including two at Evans Bay Park.

Representative

In the Hurricanes U18s competition, there is just one match in Wellington tomorrow, with first round winners the Wellington Centurions U18s and the Hawke’s Bay U18s meeting at Lyndhurst Park at 1.00pm.

The Junior Magpies and the young Centurions side both had bonus point wins last week over the Wellington Samoans U18s and Poverty Bay U18s, so a win for either in this clash could go a long way towards silverware success in the three-week competition.

Those two vanquished sides from last week, the Samoans U18s and the Poverty Bay U18s meet on neutral territory at Bill Brown Park at 11.30am.

The first of the other two games of tomorrow’s second round sees the Horowhenua-Kapiti U18s and the Wellington Māori U18s meet at Playford Park, Levin at 1.00pm. Horowhenua-Kapiti were first week losers to Wairarapa-Bush, while Wellington Māori beat Whanganui.

The final match of the weekend is between Whanganui and Wairarapa-Bush at Whanganui.

In other represeantive fixtures tomorrow, the Wellington Girls U18s play the Wellington Girls U16s at Lyndhurst Park at 2.30pm and the Wellington U16 B side meets the Horowhenua-Kapiti B team at Hataitai Park at 1.00pm. The Hurricanes U16s tournament starts next week.

In one away fixture, the Wellington Centurions Development side travels to Christchurch to take on Canterbury B at Christchurch Football Club and 2.00pm.

On Sunday, the Wellington Lions challenge for the Ranfurly Shield at Blenheim at 2.05pm. This fixture was covered on our website here yesterday https://clubrugby.nz/wp/2024/09/12/wellington-lions-preparing-for-50th-ranfurly-shield-challenge-on-sunday/

The Wellington Pride host Otago at Porirua Park in their Women’s NPC Farah Palmer Cup semi-final.

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U85kg

It is quarter-finals weekend of the National Knockout Cup U85kg competition.

There are two Wellington teams still alive, and both play at home tomorrow in consecutive fixtures at Evans Bay Park.

First up at 12.30pm are the OBU Scallywags against defending champions High School Old Boys from Christchurch.

Following their fixture, the Poneke Wanderers take the field at 2.15pm to take on the Pakuranga Black Panthers at 2.15pm.

In the other two last eight matches tomorrow, the Auckland University play Christchurch’s Linwood and Waikato’s Morrinsville and Counties Manukau’s Karaka square off. Semi-finals are next weekend, and the final is the ‘curtain-raiser’ to the All Blacks v Wallabies test in Wellington on 28 September.

Up the road at Hataitai Park there are also two one-off U85kg matches between Wellington City and Hutt Valley U85g teams.

The first of these games is at 11.00am and is a City-Hutt U85kg clash and the second kicks off at 2.30pm between the City-Hutt U85kg club teams.

Next weekend, a Wellington U85kg represeantive team is set to meet the North Harbour U85kgs at the midpoint venue of Taumarunui Rugby and Sports Club.

Heartland Championship

It’s the battle of the divide tomorrow in Masterton where Wairarapa-Bush host Horowhenua-Kapiti at 2.35pm in round 5 of 8 of the Heartland Championship round-robin.

Both will want victories, with Horowhenua-Kapiti sitting on two wins from four and in seventh and Wairarapa-Bush with one win and in 10^th.

Wainuiomata’s Jordan Sului starts for Wairarapa-Bush, while Horowhenua-Kapiti has Brandyn Laursen back, plus Willie Rua, Esi Komaisavai, and Alex Fidow.

In other games involving Hurricanes Heartland unions, East Coast hosts Thames Valley, Whanganui are away to Mid Canterbury and Poverty Bay are away against Buller.

Women’s NPC

The Manawatu Cyclones and Wellington Pride teams host home Farah Palmer Cup Women’s Championship semi-finals this weekend

Top qualifiers Manawatu host fourth placed North Harbour tomorrow at 2.05pm and the Wellington Pride welcome the Otago Spirit on to Porirua Park at 2.05pm on Sunday.

More games here: http://www.clubrugby.co.nz/national/games-results.php?competition=70&season=21&round=6

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Teamlists (as received):

Wellington Pride: 1. Lavinia Lea (Petone) 2. Alicia Print (Petone) 3. Tess Woldring (Petone) 4. Jackie Patea-Fereti (Petone) (c) 5. Sophie Irving (Poneke-OBU) 6. Fanua Rimoni (Wainuiomata) 7. Anyis Drossaerts-Lake (Norths) 8. Sinead Ryder (Ories) 9. Milly Mackey (Petone) 10. Arene Landon-Lane (Norths) 11. Harmony Kautai (Petone) 12. Monica Tagoai (Petone) 13. Fa’asua Makisi (Ories) 14. Shakira Baker (Pare-Plim) 15. Keira Su’a-Smith (Petone) 16. Valini Vaka (Poneke-OBU) 17. Roimata Parata (Pare-Plim) 18. Paige Misky (Norths) 19. Eva Maora (Petone) 20. Te Raukura Leafe (Petone) 21. Litia Bulicakau (Petone) 22. Madi Gold (Petone) 23. Ivana Samani (Ories)