The journey began today, and what a start it was! Our team faced off against Inglewood with fire in their hearts and hope in their souls!

The whistle blew and away they went, defence, tackles, turn overs, sheer grit, keeping Inglewood at bay and then a break away by Hendrix Timoti scoring our first try in the 18th minute, unconverted, 4 minutes later Inglewood kicked it up a notch and getting their first lot of points on the board and a conversion 5 -7 at that stage, it was a game of 2 halves really and neither teams, where letting each other anywhere near the try line before half time.

The 2nd half of the game was just as epic with Tutewhenua (Tutz) Tupaea getting our next try in the 44th minute of the game and converted by Bailey Hayward-Kingi putting us back into the lead at 12-7 with even more fierce determination to push Inglewood back, and getting us back into our territory which resulted in Jahi Makiri getting our 3rd try in the  51st minute of the game, converted by Bailey now it was about maintaining that solid lead but Inglewood snuck in another try in the 72nd minute bringing the score even closer with only 7 points between the 2 teams, by then you could tell the boys wanted to keep that lead and kept fighting, dug deeper and not letting Inglewood any where near their line, 80 minutes of solid rugby emerging victorious with a 19-12 win and the Stan Cloake Challenge Cup.

Big mihi going out to our premier players who filled in and to all our coaching/management teams, the club and supporters for their time and commitment to the teams! 

Congrats to our Player of Days well deserved

3 – Kodee Evans
2 – Bailey Kingi-Hayward
1 – Sean Fredrick

Today was a day of triumph and glory!

The season is bright, and the possibilities are endless!

Nga mihi nui

Pam