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Convincing wins for Porirua College and St Pat’s Silverstream today

www.collegerugby.co.nz | 14 June 2017 | Steven White & Adam Julian

Convincing wins for Porirua College and St Pat’s Silverstream today

Above: Porirua College players and supporters celebrate winning the Beard Trophy off Bishop Viard College today. 

A round-up below of the First XV matches played yesterday and today involving several Wellington schools.

Porirua College (43) v Bishop Viard College (8)

Porirua College took the Beard Trophy off Bishop Viard College this afternoon, beating the holders seven tries to one in sunny, windy conditions.

Porirua College were far too big and powerful up front for the youthful Bishop Viard College side, dominating at scum time, picking off easy ball in the lineouts off their opposites and making several telling bursts that led directly to tries.

Porirua had first use of the strong wind and scored first in the right hand corner in the opening minutes. Bishop Viard came back in an encouraging period of play for the hosts and they got on the board with a penalty.

Porirua’s looseshead prop burst through a lineout to score their second try, doubling the score to 10-3. Two further tries including a popular seven-pointer under the bar to their first five-eighth extended their lead to 24-3 at halftime.

It was game over immediately after the break when Porirua scored their fifth try, extending their lead to 31-3. BVC’s fullback was their best attacking player and his move into first five-eighth for the second 35 minute spell helped create their only try of the match, to cut the advantage to 31-8. But visitors Porirua scored twice more to close out the match, a sinbinning to one of their forwards halting slowing their momentum as well.

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The match also doubled as a Wellington region Co-ed Cup knockout competition fixture.

Aotea College (36) v Taita College (26)

It was somewhat closer in the other Co-ed Cup game played today. Taita College leapt out to an early 14-0 lead at Aotea College as they dominated territory and possession but were pegged back by a pair of long-range tries before a third on halftime gave Aotea a 19-14 edge.

The home team continued to apply the pressure after the interval, running in three more tries against a pair by Taita to run out 36-26 winners. Aotea's midfield was impressive, scoring four of their tries between them.

In another First XV match today in Wellington, Hutt Valley High School beat visitors Wanganui High School 43-0.

St Pat’s Silverstream (56) v St Bede’s College (0)

St. Pats Silverstream has crushed St. Bede’s College by a record score of 56-0 in their annual traditional fixture in Christchurch this afternoon.

Silverstream played with the assistance of a fierce breeze in the first-half and capitalised to lead 29-0. There was no letup in the second-half as Silverstream scored 10 tries to record their biggest win over St. Bede’s since a 43-0 romp in 1999. Silverstream have only conceded two tries in their last four games.

Their tries were scored by: Toalima Anae Laupola (2) Nick 'Apikotoa, Fred Sunia, Chris Aumua, Reilly Forbes, Albert Polu, Tegan Harawira, Luke Chisholm and Harrison Boyle. Despite the tricky conditions, Silverstream’s backs and forwards linked well and maintained their shape and discipline to consign St. Bede’s to a third defeat in a row in this fixture.

Wellington College (22) v Christchurch Boys’ High School (26)

The Wellington College v Christchurch Boys’ High School traditional has been decided by one point four times in the last six years and the 2017 encounter was another close affair.

After five minutes, the Boys’ High backs were launching a promising attack out wide, when a miss pass was intercepted by Wellington College who charged 75m in the opposite direction.

Wellington’s support players were close at hand and lock Taine Plumtree ploughed over for the first try, that was converted by Josh Morgan Ranui to give Wellington an early 7-0 lead. A few minutes later and following some spirited attack down the blindside by Christchurch Boys’, their No.8 Isaac Anderson was able to crash over out wide to narrow the score to 5-7. The conversion by Alex Harford had things all square again at 7-all. 

The momentum soon swung the way of Wellington. An injury to the Boys’ High fullback Ryan Barnes resulted in an overlap out wide that Wellington was quick to expose. Their big blindside flanker Naitoa Ah Kuoi who was ranging wide was too big and strong for the scrambling defence and Wellington leapt ahead 12-7.

An elbow injury to Boys’ High hooker and captain Adam Reid soon after saw Wellington firmly in control and they struck again on the left side of the field after a period of pick and goes. It was again the skipper Ah Kuoi that was the right man on the spot, diving over in the corner to give College a 10- point buffer. Slowly but surely Boys’ High began to grind back into the game. Just before halftime, it was halfback Louie Chapman that was too quick and strong off the back of a dominant scrum, dotting down to make it 12-17, and the conversion to Harford narrowed the gap to 14-17 at halftime.

Early in the second half Christchurch took control and big midfielder Taihei Kusaka powered over. The conversion by Harford took the score out to 21-17. Fifteen minutes into the second half, Wellington rallied first and right wing Tom Maiava gave the visitors a 22-21 lead. The decisive blow would come ten minutes from the end as Louie Chapman converted a period of dominant play from Christchurch to score in the corner, seeing them again take the lead at 26-22, a lead that they would not relinquish. Perhaps the telling moment late in the game was a try-saving tackle from replacement fullback for Christchurch Max Hughes. Hughes put his body on the line to take down lock Plumtree and with that the game was secure for Christchurch.

This was a free flowing, but mistake riddled game, but both sides were prepared to chance their arm. For Christchurch, prop Murphy Kupe and flanker Ben Colvin were particularly prominent, while for Wellington, Taine Plumtree was a tireless performer.

 

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