Te Hapara’s Hema Tangira tries to elude the Riverdale School defence at the Rippa Rugby tournament yesterday. Te Hapara were the overall winners. Pictures by Paul Rickard
TE Hapara School will represent Poverty Bay-East Coast at the Air New Zealand Rippa Rugby Championship in Wellington in August.
Te Hapara defeated Manutuke 25-15 in the final of the combined PB-EC primary interschool tournament on the Gisborne Boys’ High School rectory fields yesterday.
Over 200 players in 18 school
teams competed in four pools — the top two from each progressing to the playoffs.
Two players of the tournament were named — Ishtar Mackey-Huriwai (Manutuke) was top girl and Kaiao Tangira (Te Hapara) top boy.
Poverty Bay rugby development officer Henry Lamont said it was a great day. The young talent on show was impressive and the sideline support “amazing”.
