Matchday Premier 2 Scoring highlights: Tawa (29) v Norths (24)

The two sides met at Lyndhurst Park in their Premier 2 HD Morgan Memorial Cup semi-final.

Tawa came home with a wet sail to establish a match-winning 29-19 lead with a few minutes to play, despite having been reduced to 13 players following to sin-binnings midway through the second half. An unanswered try during this time, followed by another by one of those returning sinbinned players, did the job.

It was close early on, with both sides scoring tries late in the first spell to make it 10-10 at halftime. Norths moved ahead 16-10 with penalties as Tawa’s discipline threatened to de-rail them, before the home side pulled clear in the final quarter. Norths completed the match with a consolation try on fulltime.

Tawa move on to this coming weekend’s Premier 2 Division final. The two Premier 2 finals are (Tawa’s in bold):

Premier 2 Division 1 Ed Chaney Cup Final, Petone v Pōneke, Evans Bay Park 1, 2.10pm
Premier 2 Division 2 HD Morgan Memorial Cup Final, Tawa v Paremata-Plimmerton, Evans Bay Park, 11.40am.

Semi-final match highlights below: