Poverty Bay club rugby resumes in Gisborne on Saturday

High School Old Boys Leka Palusa loose forward is taken low by a YMP player in a Poverty Bay Premier Grade club rugby game. High School Old Boys are looking to make it three wins from three games when they meet Ngātapa at the Oval on Saturday. Photo / Paul Rickard

Te Pae Hākari Poverty Bay men’s Premier and Senior 1 club rugby competitions resume on Saturday.

It is also week seven of the H Blackbee Contractors Ltd Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club competition and week three of the Enterprise Cars women’s club competition.

Poverty Bay Premier Grade

2.45pm: Oval 2, Earthwork Solutions High School Old Boys v Larsawn Ngātapa (referee Ben Holt, assistant refs Ray Young and Joel Kirkpatrick).

Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae defaulted to East Coast Farm Vets YMP.

Senior 1

1pm: Oval 2, Earthwork Solutions HSOB v Waikohu (Hugh Fitzgerald); Barry Park 2, R&M Tamatea YMP Bumbles v Nūhaka V8s (Paul Brown).

2pm: Kaiuku, Ōkūrārenga, Nūhaka V8s Mahia RFC v Harvest Matawhero Transport Ngātapa (Tony Watson).

Kevin Hollis Glass Turanga Pirates defaulted to Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic.

Interschool

1pm: Tremain Field No 1, Park Island Recreation Centre, Napier, Gisborne Boys’ High School First XV v St Patrick’s College Town (Shaun Smith).

NPEC men’s competition

2pm: Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, Ruatōria, Ruatōria City v Tokararangi (Sean Murtagh, Harawira Matahiki, LeRoy Kururangi); Ūawa Domain, Tolaga Bay, Ūawa v Hikurangi Te Maunga (Joe Coleman, Matt Richards, Jimmy Green); Hatea-a-rangi Memorial Domain, Tokomaru Bay, Waimā v Waiapu (Peter Crawford, John Fox).

NPEC women’s competition

FRIDAY, 6pm: Kahuitara, Whareponga, Hikurangi Mountain Maidens v Tokararangi (Whetu Haerewa, Harawira Matahiki, Matt Richards).

SATURDAY, 11.30am: Ūawa Domain, Tolaga Bay, Ūawa v Waiapu (Matt Richards, Joe Coleman, Jimmy Green).

Bye: Ruatōria City Honeybees.