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Condor Sevens at Naenae College today – no live streaming but link to live results

Monday morning updates:

The 2024 Condor Sevens tournament is at Naenae College all day today (Monday).

There is no live streaming today.

There are live results online – to view and keep track of these, visit our friends at College Sport Wellington at this link here:

https://www.collegesport.org.nz/newsarticle/146843?newsfeedId=1578927

We will come in hot later on today and tomorrow with our written and visual content – look out for that.

As an aside, our regular Monday column ‘Sideline Conversions’ will be published on Tuesday this week!

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The curtain drops for good on the College rugby season in Wellington on Monday, with the Condor Sevens being played in its now traditional location at Naenae College.

It’s a bumper field this year with 31 teams entered, the most since before the word ‘Covid’ became a thing in our lives, making for a very busy day.

The tournament again serves as the qualifier for the National event at Mount Maunganui’s Blake Park in a few weeks’ time, with the finalists in both the Open Boys and Open Girls earning the right to compete.

The 12-team Open Boys field is a strong looking one, with seven of the eight Wellington schools in the 1st XV Premiership taking part. Perennial heavyweights Scots College – the defending Christian Cullen Cup champions – and St Pats Silverstream are the top seeds, joined by Wellington College and Rongotai. St Bernard’s, Tawa, and Hutt International, the latter making a rare appearance at this event, are the remaining Premiership schools, with St Pats Town the sole and notable absentee. The field is rounded out by Hutt Valley High, Aotea, Mana, Heretaunga, and a second side from Silverstream; to their credit this side is made up of players from only their title-winning 2nd and 3rd XV sides.

The Open Girls for the Kat Simpkins Cup comprises six teams, headlined by St Mary’s whose decade of dominance has seen them lose just two matches across that time. Sacred Heart loom as their most likely challenger and the two will be favourites to make the final and claim the two spots at the Nationals. However, Wellington East impressed during the short XVs season and will be a dark horse, with Taita, St Catherine’s, and Tawa completing the contenders.

Seven teams will front for the U15 Boys after Mana and Scots both withdrew on Friday. Hutt Valley High were the surprising and deserving winners last year but with most of those players no longer eligible they face a mammoth task to repeat. Silverstream and Wellington College are the seeded sides and are joined in the field by St Bernards, Tawa, and local duo Taita and Naenae. Its an unbalanced draw format here where three of the lower seeded teams will be playing off for one spot in the semifinals.

And finally, the U15 Girls returns after insufficient entries to run it last year. Aotea are top seeds by virtue of their upset win over St Mary’s in the grade final earlier in the year, with that duo joined by Wellington Girls, Taita, Tawa, and Whitby Collegiate.

Notably Tawa College has teams in all for competitions which is a fantastic effort from the school.

Play gets underway at 9am with the first playoff action starting at 12.40. The finals commence from 3.20pm with the U15 Girls, followed at 20-minute intervals by the U15 Boys, Open Girls, and Open Boys.

Open Boys
Pool A: Scots, St Bernards, Silverstream B
Pool B: Silverstream A, Tawa, Heretaunga
Pool C: Wellington College, Hutt International, Mana
Pool D: Rongotai, Hutt Valley HS, Aotea

Open Girls
Pool G: St Mary’s, Wellington East, Tawa
Pool H: Sacred Heart, Taita, St Catherine’s

Under 15 Boys
Pool E: Silverstream, Wellington College, St Bernards, HVHS
Pool F: Tawa, Taita, Naenae

Under 15 Girls
Pool M: Aotea, Wellington Girls, Whitby
Pool N: St Mary’s, Taita, Tawa

The draw for morning/pool games is below (subject to change): 

The draw / times for afternoon games is below: 

 

Open Boys highlights from last year: 

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