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Saturday, August 8, 2009

HPC vs Kingsway School 1st XV, August 1st, 2009






This weekend was to be a game that could either determine our fate or a result that would determine our season with many teams claiming to take the 4th spot for a semi. This game was played in challenging conditions with heavy rain and a light wind predicted which changed the structure of the game. The game started out slow for us with Kingsway contesting Hato ball and to their credit scoring a soft try in the far corner. The boys quickly regathered and our forwards worked towards the Kingsway try-line keeping possession close to the ruck. The ball then fed to the backs with some slick passing and running which produced our 1st try of the match to Arapeta Bedggood. The try was unconverted. During the 2nd half what soon followed was to determine the outcome of the game. Some ill discipline started to slowly creep in to our team with the boy's not coming to terms with some of the referees calls however rugby is rugby and we must learn to adapt and just play the game. Kingsway quickly pounced on these opportunities and converted 2 penalty conversions. HP re-organised themselves and pulled their heads in and kept the machine going with our forwards working hard in the rucks and the malls. The ball then passed swiftly across our back-line with some great lead up work from Steven Davis and Tukairangi Maxwell which fed the hands of Arapeta scoring his 2nd for the day. The try was unconverted bringing the score to 11-10 in favour of the home team. Discipline again cost us the game with one of our players being sin-binned for the remainder of the game. However our boys worked ferociously defending on our own try line for a good 10 minutes and true courage the showed to hold them out, however with the time out on the clock Kingsway managed to score a lucky try in the corner. The final score of 16-10 was the result we didn't want but we could have easily won this game if our discipline and focus on the game was at the fore-front.

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