Three sets of brothers turned out for the Bridge Pa premier men's rugby league team which registered their first win in the lower North Island's Coast to Coast competition on Saturday.
Props Ben and Kane Tahau, scrumhalf Piripi and winger Larry Jessup and back rower and player-coach Ihaka and prop Lee Waerea created a slice of history for the 2016 Hawke's Bay Spring Competition champions in a 48-20 win against Tainui in Palmerston North.
This was Bridge Pa's second game in the comp and the winless Tainui team's third.
Ihaka Waerea said while the victory and three brothers made it a memorable expedition through the Manawatu Gorge the match will also be remembered for a couple of different reasons.
"We only travelled with 15 players and lost Ben [Tahau] with an injury during the warmup. Five minutes into the game we lost second rower Jaamin Pere through injury and we were lucky one of players from last year, Jeston Craig, who lives in the Wairarapa these days came over to be a spectator and was able to help us out with a stint as a second rower."