LOCK AND LOADED: Poverty Bay lock Fletcher Scammell takes on the King Country defence. The Bay head to Ashburton this weekend to play Mid Canterbury. Victory will put them into the top four with two round-robin games remaining.
IT has been a long time since Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast had Heartland Championship rugby wins on the same day.
Here's hoping it will only be a week before the next double.
The Bay set up a 50-26 win over King Country at Rugby Park in Gisborne
with a 33-5 first-half charge.
East Coast, desperate to end a Heartland losing streak dating back to late September 2013, responded with a 50-26 (yes, the same score) defeat of Buller at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria.
Both games were entertaining affairs and an excellent advertisement for grassroots rugby.