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NZRL Monday Night Footy Results - Round 6

NZRL Monday Night Footy Results - Round 6

The first game of the evening was the final of the Student Horizons - North Harbour Schools League Competition between Orewa and Northcote Colleges. Both had played Monday night league at Mt Smart Stadium during the competition and in their recent round robin match Orewa were winners 30 - 24.

Orewa have been a consistently high scoring team during the competition and it looked like this would be the case again when they scored early and went out to a 4-nil lead. Northcote dug in and although Orewa made good metres down field in their sets of six, they were unable to score and eventually it was Northcote who scored a converted try right on half time, going to the break 6-4 up.

In the second half Orewa scored three tries and kicked a conversion taking an 18-6 lead and despite having a player sin binned with only minutes to go, they held on to win. Northcote were unlucky in having two try scoring opportunities denied while Orewa were a man down, the first due to a forward pass and the second as the result of a knock on in goal as two players dived for the ball.

At the conclusion of the game there were on field presentations to both teams by Duane Mann of Auckland Rugby League and Jamie Wansey of Student Horizons, the North Harbour tournament sponsors. Mitchell Eades of Orewa College was named Player of the Tournament and the captains, Josh Farrant of Northcote and Luke Weddell of Orewa spoke about how much they and their teams had enjoyed the competition and the opportunity to play in televised games at Mt Smart Stadium.

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Next Monday night Southern Cross Campus and Pakuranga College will play off to find the winner of the Counties Manukau conference, with the winners to meet Orewa College in the final of Monday Night Rugby League on October 15.

Counties Manukau Stingrays came into the Pirtek National Premiership match as favourites on the back of four wins from four games, while the Scorpions also had good reason to be positive about their chances with two last start wins. When the Stingrays scored inside the first minute the Scorpions could have been forgiven for thinking it was going to be a long night. To their credit however, they kept plugging away, and although the Stingrays scored next, the Scorpions soon closed the gap scoring three back to back converted tries and going into half time 18 points to 16 up.

Surprisingly it was goal kicking that was letting the Stingrays down, after kicking 14 from 14 the week before, not one of the four goal kickers was able to convert any of their tries, and when the Scorpions scored first in the second half, it appeared an upset was on cards. Unfortunately the Scorpions weren't able to turn any more of their attacking raids into points and the Stingrays three second half tries were enough for them to finish 28 points to 22 in front. The Stingrays remain top of the table with the Akarana Falcons in second.

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Final - Student Horizons North Harbour Rugby League Competition

Orewa College 18: Tries Anderson, Morgan, Eades, Slater; Conversion Whittaker
Northcote College 6: Tries Delavau; Conversion Sili

Pirtek National Premiership
Counties Manukau Stingrays 28: Tries Nafetalai (2), Waetford (2), Faingaa, Tuha, Oliveti; Conversions - nil
South Island Scorpions 22: Tries Ka, Pukepuke, Ward, Faalilo; Conversions Sepeloni (3)

For all the details of the National Competition results please visit our website here.

ENDS

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