Hawke's Bay march on
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:26
Hawke's Bay continued their Air New Zealand Cup pre-season march with an emphatic 42-19 win over Waikato at McLean Park in Napier on Friday.
It was the fifth successive win by a Hawke's Bay side and follows last week's convincing 26-10 by the Magpies over North Harbour. Other pre-season wins include a Hawke's Bay XV beating Wairarapa Bush 77- 0, Bay of Plenty 61- 45 and Poverty Bay 96 - 0.
Against Waikato on Friday the Magpies opened a 21-0 half-time lead to kill off the game as a contest, before scoring three more tries in the final quarter to race to a convincing win.
Scorers:
For Waikato:
Tries: Lynn, Scheres, Smiler
Cons: Devcich 2
For Hawke's Bay:
TBC
Teams:
Waikato: 15 Armyn Sanders, 14 Sosene Anesi, 13 Jackson Willison, 12 Roimata Hansell-Pune, 11 Tim Mikkelson, 10 Sam Christie, 9
Malcolm Barnes, 8 Faifili Levave, 7 Tom Harding, 6 Jordan Smiler, 5 Josh Olsen, 4 Toby Lynn (captain), 3 Josh Hohneck, 2 Simon Chisholm, 1 Hikairo Forbes.
Replacements - form: Ted Tauroa, Thomas Scheres, Mike Moore, Kent Fife, Romana Graham, Adam Cathcart, David Bason, Dean Devcich, Mark Murray, Save Tokula, James Kamana.
Hawke's Bay: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Jason Kupa, 13 Jason Shoemark, 12 Sam Giddens, 11 Mark Jackman, 10 Matt Berquist, 9 Chris Eaton, 8 Pama Petia, 7 Karl Lowe, 6 Michael Johnson (captain), 5 Bryn Evans, 4 Matt Egan, 3 Tom Simpson, 2 Ash Dixon, 1 Sona Taumalolo.
Replacements: 16 Jamie Muir, 17 Josh Keys, 18 Rob Evans, 19 Adam Bradey, 20 Kilifi Fangupo, 21 Daniel Waenga, 22 Richard Buckman.
