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NZ Herald
04-07-2025
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- NZ Herald
Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby semifinals on Saturday
11.30am: Te Kura Mana Māori o Whangaparāoa, Tikirau Victory Club v Hikurangi (Joe Coleman, Jimmy Green, Katarina Haerewa). Uawa are the dark horses. And with the knockout semifinals of the Heke-o-Te-Rangi Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast (NPEC) men's club competition all go on Saturday, they could not be travelling to face a bigger challenge than the No 1 qualifiers – Tihirau Victory Club. Top seeds TVC are hosting No 4-ranked Ūawa at Te Kura Mana Māori o Whangaparāoa – the same venue they met at in round-robin play, with TVC winning 29-24. The other semi features No 2 Tokararangi, at their Kawakawa Mai Tawhiti base, against No 3 Waiapu. Ūawa's 'Big Blue Crew' go in with a record of four wins and three losses this season, the most recent of those a 64-0 overwhelming by Tokararangi. TVC began their campaign with a 33-13 win against reigning champions Waiapu, and it set the tone for a perfect run to the semis, although they were pushed all the way in games against Tokararangi (19-18 in week 4) and Ūawa. TVC are the only team this season to have beaten Tokararangi, who won five games and drew 34-all with semifinal opponents Waiapu, who won four games and lost two. A 36-24 win over Hikurangi a fortnight ago, in which player-coach Israel Brown scored a hat-trick of tries, and last weekend's drubbing of Ūawa have given Tokararangi momentum. And it is that ability to come into form at the right time, to peak and produce in the semis, that influential players crave. Waiapu led Ruatōria City 16-10 in last year's final before winning the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield 19-18. From top to bottom, they, like their player-coach Perrin Manuel and captain Richard Green, are physical and experts at set-piece play. Green is a top lineout forward, as is Dyllyn Evans of Tokararangi. The battle for lineout supremacy will be an interesting one, but of even more interest will be the teams' tactics. Will they favour ball in hand or look to pin the opposition in their own half by means of the boot? Heading into the semis, NPEC chief executive LeRoy Kururangi had a clear and timely message for the Sky Blue rugby community. 'We just need to remind everyone that our referees are human and remind the supporters not to become wayward,' he said. The Enterprise Cars NPEC women's club game between Ruatōria City and Tokararangi will be a milestone one for City players Harmony Mangu and Rena-Deane Goldsmith – their 20th caps for City. Meanwhile, it is a huge weekend of rugby at home and away for Ngāti Porou players. Props Jared Proffit and Kershawl Sykes-Martin, local Isaia Walker-Leawere and openside flanker Jahrome Brown are in the Māori All Blacks starting 15, while halfback Kemara Hauiti-Parapara is on the bench for their game against Scotland on Saturday. Gisborne-born-and-bred Fergus Burke has been named among the back reserves for Scotland for the 3.35pm clash in Whangārei. The 1.05pm curtain-raiser – a 58-player World Cup trials game between the Black Ferns and Black Ferns XV – will also feature Ngāti Porou and Gisborne-connected players. Tokararangi's Jordyn Tihore, now playing for Whakarewarewa in Rotorua, is on the bench for the Black Ferns XV, who will have Gisborne's Kelsey Teneti starting at centre. Gisborne's Renee Holmes is on the bench for the Black Ferns.
NZ Herald
23-06-2025
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- NZ Herald
Ngāti Porou East Coast club rugby results
Ngāti Porou East Coast's Tristan Rutene takes on Poverty Bay's Siosiua Moala in the King's Birthday derby match at Ruatōria. Rutene scored two tries for Ruatōria City in their 55-14 win over Waima in week 6 of the NPEC men's club competition at the weekend. Photo / Paul Rickard Heke-o-Te-Rangi Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men's competition Hikurangi 24 (Te Aotahi Tuhaki 3, Te Mana Barbarich tries; Kris Palmer 2 con) Tokararangi 36 (Israel Brown 3, Dyllyn Evans, Teina Potae, Piripi Reid tries; Rapata Haerewa 3 con). HT: Hikurangi 14 Tokararangi 19. Tokomaru Bay United 15 (Mahara Kururangi
NZ Herald
19-05-2025
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- NZ Herald
Poverty Bay, East Coast club rugby results
Senior one Patutahi, Harvest Transport Matawhero Ngatapa 36 (Charlie Burdon, Ratu Livai Ratudolo, Connor Pearson, Aston Fitzgerald, Waisale Kubunameca, Mikaere Bell tries; Fitzgerald 2 con, Irie Noanoa con) Earthwork Solutions HSOB 28 (Masi Pole 2, Hayden Walters-Stuart, Cody Ellis tries; Corey Reihana 4 con). HT: Ngatapa 27 HSOB 7. Kaiuku, Ōkūrārenga: Mahia RFC 48 (Wiremu Erkell 4, Primo Wairau, Zamian-Ray Blake, Parys Kingi-Wyllie, Dre Marsh tries; Wiremu Erkell 2 con, Pauro Erkell 2 con) Tamatea R & M YMP Bumbles 21 (Rapana Ngaau, Renata Wyllie, Whetu King-Taufa tries; Legion Taingahue 3 con). HT: Mahia 35 YMP Bumbles 7. Nuhaka Domain: Nuhaka V8s 23 (Aoterangi Cotter, Graham Wallis, Nikora Smith tries; Waka Edwards 2 pen, con) Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic 19 (George Twigley, Tom Drinkrow, Jonty Le Lievre tries; Twigley 2 con). HT: Nuhaka V8s 23 Wairoa Athletic 0. Most Valuable Player awards: Charlie Burdon (Ngatapa), Mango Halaifonua (HSOB), Te Aramoana Brady (Mahia), Elijah Munro (YMP Bumbles), Aoterangi Cotter (Nuhaka V8s), Jonty Le Lievre (Wairoa-Athletic). Poverty Bay Wāhine club rugby Barry Park: YMP 14 (Hana Bates 2 tries; Maia Rickard 2 con) Tapuae 42 (Horiana Nepia 2, Hinemoa Hubbard, Princess Tomoana, Kamoe Paki, Kaylah Clarke-Winiata tries; Hubbard 4 con, Paku Hiko 2 con). HT: YMP 0 Tapuae 21. Player of the Day awards: Samantha Luka (YMP), Lu Taitapanui (Tapuae). Heke-o-Te-Rangi Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men's club competition, week two Te Araroa Domain: Tokararangi 28 (Teina Potae, Riki Waitoa, Rapata Haerewa, Whakarae Henare tries; Haerewa 4 con) Ruatōria City 25 (Tuterangi Ngarimu, Matatua Ruru, Tanetoa Parata tries; Nathaniel Fox 2 pen, 2 con). HT: Tokararangi 14 Ruatōria City 6. Kahuitara, Whareponga: Hikurangi 21 (Pounamu Reeves, Te Aotahi Tuhaka tries; Kris Palmer 3 pen, con) Tihirau Victory Club 38 (Treymaine Butler 2, Justin Evans, Eraihia Waititi-Bartlett, Tiera Biddle, Benny Haerewa tries; Haerewa 3 con, Manahi Brooking con). HT: Hikurangi 9 TVC 12. Hatea-a-rangi Memorial Domain, Tokomaru Bay: Tokomaru Bay United 32 (Apirana Pewhairangi 2, Andrew Williams, Richard Tuhaka, James Te Kahika tries; Beritane Miller pen, con, Mahara Kururangi con) Waima 36 (Safin Tuwairua-Brown 2, Erutini Walker 2, Slade Tiopira, Callan Whaitiri-White tries; Tiopira 3 con). HT: Tokomaru Bay United 17 Waima 10. Ūawa Domain, Tolaga Bay: Ūawa 17 (Josh Dearden, Tipene Meihana, BJ Sidney tries; Dearden con) Waiapu 19 (Tihei Turei, Awanui Koia, Perrin Manuel tries; Leethan Rawiri 2 con). HT: Ūawa 0 Waiapu 14. Player of the Day awards: Pamona Samupo (Tokararangi), Tanetoa Parata (Ruatōria City), Te Aotahi Tuhaka (Hikurangi), Manahi Brooking (Tihirau Victory Club), Andrew Williams (Tokomaru Bay United), Safin Tuwairua-Brown (Waima), Jordan Waru (Ūawa), Richard Green (Waiapu). Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast women's competition Te Araroa Domain: Tokararangi 22 (Cheyenne Babbington-Ngerengere, Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate, Ria Mitaira, Tani Waitoa tries; Broughton con) Ruatōria City 19 (Kayless Boyce, Karla Rickard, Harmony Mangu tries; Rena-Deane Goldsmith 2 con). HT Tokararangi 10 Ruatōria City 12. Kahuitara, Whareponga: Hikurangi 51 (Te Awhina Chase 3, Ashanti Thompson-Collins 2, Kiana Ria, Autumn Collins, Ariki Beach, Charlie Haua-Kahaki tries; Thompson-Collins 3 con) Tihirau Victory Club 27 (Dane-a Kopa 3, Destiny Kenworthy-Keelan, Alizay Grant tries; Kopa con). HT: Hikurangi 29 TVC 5. Player of the Day awards: Maraea Green (Tokararangi), Karla Rickard (Ruatōria City), Katarina Ngarimu (Hikurangi), Dane-a Kopa (Tihirau Victory Club).
NZ Herald
09-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Former Black Fern coaching East Coast women's rugby team
She acknowledges the talent, flair, athleticism, heart that can't be taught and natural instinct for the game players in the region possess. She sees a big part of the coaching and management team's job as being to connect those attributes with learning and knowledge. 'Ngati Porou wāhine are strong-minded, proud, hold themselves in a certain way,' she said. Ngata-Aerengamate has Ngati Porou ancestry on her mother's side of the family and Cook Islands heritage on her father's side. She was born in Henderson. 'My philosophy is to be make sure everyone in our environment is authentic because all of the players have a special skill and are in a place where they can do their best. 'I want to value people on and off the field. Ted [2011 World Cup-winning head coach Sir Graham Henry] said that 'men play well to feel good, women have to feel good to play well', and how people make you feel is important. 'Our coaching and leadership group wants to build a rapport and trust with the players - learn the people first.' NPEC union immediate past president Campbell Dewes, principal of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kawakawa Mai Tawhiti, spoke of Ngata-Aerengamate's quality as a down-to-earth role model and mentor to young people on a day-to-day basis. 'A person of her calibre, experience and achievement - we're delighted that she's come home. Her family's been heavily involved with the performing arts, so she's bilingual, a natural fit with the culture of Ngati Porou. We're very fortunate to have someone with her character leading Hamoterangi.' Ngata-Aerengamate, who is living in Te Araroa and working fulltime for the union, is establishing networks while also coaching and fostering participation in schools through Rippa Rugby, Fast 5 and 7s tournaments. She is also playing for Tokararangi this season. 'My vision and hope for our team are even representation from each of our five clubs - Hikurangi, Tokararangi, Tihirau Victory Club, Waiapu and Ruatōria City. 'We want the knowledge going back into the clubs. This year is about planting seeds, getting buy-in, to help our people progress from being club players to provincial players, and as they come into our environment, year by year, we'll push that. 'I'm looking forward to working with our union, management, leadership group and players to come up with what works best for us to reach the pinnacle of success in rugby for our iwi.'
