Swindale Shield matchday Scoring highlights: Petone (28) v Tawa (24)

The Petone and Tawa teams in action during the match. Photo: Grant Wall. 

The two teams met at Lyndhurst Park, Tawa in the second round of the 2025 Swindale Shield competition, in bright, sunny conditions on 12 April.

On the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, the home team didn’t go down easily and indeed did everything they could to stay afloat at the end. After pressing the line for multiple phases, Tawa captain Matolu Petaia lunged at the line but was held up.

The match had been a tight, seesaw affair throughout, with a Tawa penalty try giving them the edge at halftime. Petone lost a player to the sin-bin at this stage but Tawa would raise them and have three players sinbinned in the second half, ultimately costing them.

Scoring highlights of this contest are below, via Club Rugby Youtube:

Bonus track – Petone’s second xv side won the Premier 2 Harper Lock Shield fixture between the two sides as the curtain-raiser to this match. Again, this game was close, but Petone pulled away at the end for what was a comfortable 55-26 victory. Some second half highlights of that contest below;

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