Rugby: WHHS look for home win to cap solid season

The Western Heights High School 1st XV play in a do-or-die match tomorrow. Pictured is Western Heights player Liam Membery. Photo / Ben Fraser

The Western Heights High School 1st XV rugby team will look to put "the cherry on top" of an already impressive season when they host Stratford High School tomorrow.

They will meet the Taranaki visitors at noon as both teams chase a spot in the National Top 4 co-ed secondary schools competition.

The winner will progress while the season will be over for the losers.

Western Heights 1st XV co-coach Steve Smith said the team were rapt to beat Opotiki College in the Baywide division one final a week ago, and they were looking forward to their next challenge against Stratford tomorrow.

"Winning the final against Opotiki put the icing on the cake, so to speak [for our season], and winning this week would be the cherry on top," he said.

"We have been down this path before but it was a few years ago, at least five or six."

If Western Heights defeat Stratford they will go up against Cambridge High School this weekend for a spot in the National Top 4 co-ed competition, held in Rotorua.

-Western Heights High School 1st XV v Stratford High School 1st XV, 12pm tomorrow at WHHS.