A slick Scots College team ran out deserved winners in this afternoon’s Wellington Secondary Schools Condor Sevens tournament at Naenae College, beating Wellington College 24-17 in their Cup semi-final and then St Pat’s Silverstream 31-12 in the Cup final. ?

For the second consecutive year, Scots College will represent Wellington at the National Condor tournament in Auckland at the end of November.

Scots College will be joined at the tournament by Wellington East Girls’ College, who beat St Catherine’s College 10-0 in the girls’ Cup final.

Scots College pulled clear of St Pat’s Silverstream in the second half of the final with three unanswered tries and 19 points after Silverstream’s Josh Robertson-Weepu had scored in the corner at the start of the half to lock scores up at 12-12.

Scots College captain and playmaker Malo Tuitama was the star of the final, scoring two first half tries including a 70 metre runaway from a turnover. Tuitama also made a key tackle near the touchline with the game in the balance early in the second half.

Team spokesperson Varani Komosava was delighted with the side's performance afterwards, with limited preparation heading into the day.

“We hadn't done much training before this tournament, we’d just been doing passing drills so we’re pretty happy to have defended our Wellington title today,” said Varani.

Still catching his breath a good several minutes afterwards, Varani said both Wellington College and St Pat’s Silverstream were tough to play.”We’d been watching them all game and they were looking sharp so we knew we had to be at our best at the end.”

Varani praised his teammates, especially Malo Tuitama. “He was fantastic for us, a great all-round player on both defence and on attack. He was big for us.”

In the morning's play, Scots breezed through their Pool section, defeating Taita College 41-0, Bishop Viard College 46-0 and Porirua College 43-0. They then defeated Aotea College 48-0 in their quaterfinal. In six matches, Scots scored 231 points and conceded 29.?

Wellington East, who won the Girls Plate final last year, were also deserved winners over St Catherine’s in their final, scoring two first half tries and keeping their bigger opponents at bay for the rest of the match.

Aotea College beat St Pat’s Town 31-29 in the Boys Plate final, Manaia Thorne outflanking the defence out wide to score the match winner with the last play of the game.

Rongotai College beat St Bernard’s 31-12 in the Boys Bowl final.

Scots College defeated Wellington College 24-17 in one Boys Cup semi-final and St Pat’s Silverstream defeated HIBS 42-0 in the other. Scots College made Wellington College pay for early mistakes in their semi-final, streaking to a three tries to nil lead late in the first half.

Wellington College answered with a key try to New Zealand Secondary Schools midfielder Wes Goosen, cutting Scots’ lead to three tries to one at halftime.

Scots struck first after halftime through Tuitama, Wellington College replied with two consecutive tries and it was game on. But Scots College kept their cool and ended the game attacking inside the opposite 22.

St Pat’s Silverstream’s Chase Tiatia scored two of six tries against HIBS. Silverstream were always in control on the scoreboard, but HIBS were gallant.

HIBS had? previously defeated St Pat’s Town 20-19 in their quarterfinal, handing St Pat’s Town the first two of last-gasp defeats.

Tournament results (note these are provisional results only):

Boys

Pool A

Wellington College 64 - St Bernard’s 5
Wellington College 21 St Pat’s Town 2 7
HIBS 19 - Sat Pat’s 2 14
St Pat’s Town 2 31 - St Bernard’s College 24
Wellington College 24 - HIBS 12
HIBS 31 - St Bernard’s 0

Winners: Wellington College

Pool B (three teams)

St Pat’s Silverstream 45 - Aotea College 7
Aotea College 24 - Rongotai College 7
St Pat’s Silverstream 52 - Rongotai College 7

Winners: St Pat’s Silverstream

Pool C

Scots College 41 - Taita College 0
Bishop Viard 17? - Porirua College 7
Scots College 46 -Bishop Viard 0
Porirua College 42 - Taita College 5
Scots College 43 - Porirua College 0
Bishop Viard College 17 - Taita College 12

Winners: Scots College

Pool D

Naenae College 36 - Upper Hutt College 0
St Pat’s Town 1 40 - Mana College 14
St Pat’s Town 1 47 - Upper Hutt College 0
Mana College 12 - Naenae College 5
St pat’s Town 1 31 - Naenae College 10
Mana College 27 - Upper Hutt College 12

Winners: St Pat’s Town 1

Quarterfinals:

Wellington College 54 v Naenae College 7
St Pat’s Silverstream 33 v Bishop Viard College 7
Scots College 48 v Aotea College 0
HIBS 20 - St Pat’s Town 19
Mana/Wainuiomata Colleges 22 v St Bernard’s College 14
Upper Hutt 38 v St Pat’s Town 2 19
Rongotai College 29 - Taita College 5
Porirua College - Bye

Cup Semi-Finals:

Scots College 24 v Wellington College 17
St Pat’s Silverstream 42 v HIBS 0

Cup Final:

Scots College 31 - v St Pat’s Silverstream 12

Plate Semi-Finals

Aotea College 42 v Naenae College 10
St Pat’s Town 29 v Bishop Viard College 12

Bowl Semi-Finals

St Bernard’s 15 v Porirua College 10
Rongotai 29 v Upper Hutt 10

Plate Final:

Aotea College 31 - St Pat’s Town 29

Bowl Final:

Rongotai College 31 - St Bernard’s College 12

Girls

Pool A:

Naenae College 21 - Porirua College 5
Naenae College 21 - Hutt Valley High School 0
Porirua College 17 - Aotea College 7
Aotea College 42- Hutt Valley High School 10
Naenae College 29 - Aotea College 0
Porirua College 40 - Hutt Valley High School 5

Winners: Naenae College

Pool B

Wellington East 25 - St Catherine’s 0
Wainuiomata 15 v Sacred Heart College 5
Sacred Heart College 12 - Wellington East 5
St Catherine’s 28 - Sacred Heart College 0
Wainuiomata College 19 v Wellington East 12
St Catherine’s 19 - Wainuiomata 0

Winners 1: Wellington East

Semi-finals:

Porirua College 21 v Sacred Heart College 5
Wainuiomata College 27 v Hutt Valley High School 0
Naenae College 19 v St Catherine’s 17
Wellington East 17 v Aotea College 12

Bowl Final:

HVHS beat Sacred heart by default

Playoff for 3rd/4th

Naenae v Aotea TBC

Cup Final:

Wellington East 10 v St Catherine’s 0