Bay of Plenty Times
  • Bay of Plenty Times home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Sport

Locations

  • Coromandel & Hauraki
  • Katikati
  • Tauranga
  • Mount Maunganui
  • Pāpāmoa
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Thames
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Bay of Plenty Times

Rugby: Harbour beat Bay in curtain-raising clash

By Peter White
Bay of Plenty Times·
24 Aug, 2014 05:00 PM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Photo / Thinkstock

Photo / Thinkstock

By the end of Sunday afternoon both Bay of Plenty senior rep teams had conceded more than 50 points.

The curtain raiser to the big dance between the Steamers and Makos saw Bay of Plenty Development take on their ITM Cup counterparts from North Harbour.

Harbour ran in eight tries in beating Bay of Plenty 57-43 with most issues for the Bay surrounding their leaky defence. They also made too many unforced errors and there could be no excuse for dropped passes in such glorious playing conditions.

Harbour opened the scoring with a penalty but Nick Evemy equalised immediately after a strong run from lock Nick Turnbull. But that just sparked the visitors into life, as they scored two fine tries in six minutes. The second of those started from a turnover just out from their own line and ended with a seven pointer after a sweeping move.

Bay of Plenty closed the gap to 15-10 with a converted try to Evemy, who showed his special skills to slip through the defence.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Harbour skipped out to 22-10 after they found another hole in the Bay backline. It got worse before the break when a charged clearing kick fell into the Harbour hooker's arms for a simple try, and then Harbour stretched Bay's defence on their right hand edge.

Winger Mason Walker scored a well-worked try right on half-time and his Mount teammate Danny Kayes scored in the opening play of the second spell to get the Bay back in the game trailing 34-22. But a simple missed tackle let Harbour in to regain their margin and the initiative they never relinquished.

Harbour's backs looked good, really good, as they ran further tries in at will. Evemy and Walker scored their second tries for the Bay, and replacement Arron Carroll one in injury time to make the score respectable.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Bay of Plenty Development 43 (Nick Evemy 2, Mason Walker 2, Danny Kayes, Arron Carroll tries; Evemy 5 con, pen)
North Harbour Development 57 (Jona Tuitoga 2, Josh York 2, Adrian Smith, Leigh Thompson, Tim Blundell, Ritchie Ah-Chong tries; Blundell 4 cons, 3 pens).

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Bay of Plenty Times

'Sustained period of cruelty': Starship doctor slates child protection agency failings

Bay of Plenty Times

Eastern BoP mayors unite against council amalgamation

Bay of Plenty Times

'Mind-blowing': Chef's two-ingredient meringue breakthrough


Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

'Sustained period of cruelty': Starship doctor slates child protection agency failings
Bay of Plenty Times

'Sustained period of cruelty': Starship doctor slates child protection agency failings

An almost identical case occurred two months after Malachi's death, the doctor said.

16 Jul 05:15 AM
Eastern BoP mayors unite against council amalgamation
Bay of Plenty Times

Eastern BoP mayors unite against council amalgamation

15 Jul 10:57 PM
'Mind-blowing': Chef's two-ingredient meringue breakthrough
Bay of Plenty Times

'Mind-blowing': Chef's two-ingredient meringue breakthrough

15 Jul 09:44 PM


Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

06 Jul 09:47 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Bay of Plenty Times e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Bay of Plenty Times
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP