St Pat’s Town and St Mary’s College win Wellington Condor qualifiers

UPDATED: St. Pats Town are the Christian Cullen Cup Wellington Secondary Schools’ Sevens Champions while Scots College – runners up at the Condor Sevens in 2013 and 2014 – will not compete at the Nationals in Auckland.

Today at Naenae College, Town and St. Pats Silverstream won through to the 29th national tournament.

As expected top seeds Silverstream and Scots reached the semi-finals with relative ease.

Silverstream scored 130 points and only conceded one try in their first three games.

Prior to the semi-finals, NZ Schools hooker Asafo Aumua scored six tries across three games while Josh Brown bagged a hat-trick against Porirua College.

Scots weren’t as dominant. St. Bernard’s College and Wellington College held them to 14-7 at halftime, but strong displays by NZ Schools prop Alex Fidow and second-five Thomas Umaga-Marshall resulted in victories. Both scored five tries in three games.

The most notable result in the boys pool play was Rongotai College knocking over Wellington College. Malachai Unasa-Knox scored two tries in a commanding 31-12 victory.

There was high drama in the semi-finals as St. Pats Town eliminated Scots College. Early tries to Keelan Whitman, Willie Schutz and Xavier Numia cancelled out a late rally by Scots.

In the other semi-final Silverstream was forced to fightback from 14-5 down to foil Rongotai College. Sione Uvea collected a double and Unasa-Knox scored an outstanding try and stood out again.

In the final Town burst to a 15-0 lead and never lost their advantage on the back of fierce defence, Stream ill-discipline, including two yellow cards, and pace on the flanks.

Siosaia Paese, Thomas Noble-Campbell and Billy Proctor scored the early tries. The Whitman brothers each crossed in the second-half. Aumua was rampant again and scored a consolation hat-trick.

St Pat's Town's 34-19 win in the final over Silverstream meant they they were the first team to do the double of winning both the Premier 15's and 7's titles in the same year.

The closest contested pool of the day was Girls Pool C, which ended up with Wainuiomata High School, Aotea College and Mana College all finishing the morning games on 7 points. Wainuiomata qualified top of the pool after beating Aotea 24-10 in the final round-robin of the morning, but one one conversion in this pool was the difference between which team went through to the semi-final.

Defending Girls champion Wellington East Girls' College were knocked out at the semi-final stage by rivals St Mary’s, while Wainuiomata High School went on to defeat Porirua 22-12 in the other semi-final.

In the Girls final St. Mary’s College flashed to a comfortable win over Wainuiomata, a length of the field try proving the catalyst for the 29-14 win.

For St Mary’s Monica Tagoai was dangerous all day, whilst NZ netballer Colleeen Faleafaga also showed nice touches. For Wainuiomata, new NZ rugby league representative Sieni Mose was dominant.

Ardie Savea was coach of the St Mary's team. 

The boys plate final went to golden point extra time, with Bishop Viard College and Wellington College locked up at 19-19 at fulltime. After a long period of extra time play Bishop Viard broke through to win 24-19.

Boys Cup finalists St Pat's Silverstream and St Pat's Town are invited to compete in this coming weekend's WRFU Open club Sevens tournament, the Colts grade. 

Results

Results and scores below are unoffical.

Pool results:

Boys

• Porirua 31 - St Pat’s Town B 12
• Naenae 10 Wellington College 39
• Scots College 32 St Bernard’s 7
• Taita 0 St Pat’s Town A 29
• Rongotai 24 - Naenae 7
• Silverstream 59 St Pat’s Town B 0
• Bishop Viard 35 Taita 12
• Wainuiomata 10 - St Bernard’s 17
• Silversteam 55 - Porirua 0 
• Wellington College 12 - Rongotai 31
• St Pat’s Town A 30 - Bishop Viard 5
• Scots 52 - Wainuiomata 14

Girls

• Newlands College 0 - Porirua 45
• St Mary’s 22 - Paraparaumu 7
• Wellington East 46 - Naenae 7 
• Upper Hutt 7 - Wainuiomata 31
• Aotea 22 – Mana 7
• Newlands 7 - St Mary’s 42
• Porirua 31 Paraparaumu 5
• Mana College 19 Wainuiomata 12
• Upper Hutt – 0 Aotea 31
• Newlands v Paraparaumu (field 1)
• St Mary’s 40 - Porirua 10
• Upper Hutt 15 - Mana 31

Pool winners:

Boys
Pool A: Silverstream
Pool B: Scots College
Pool C: St Pat’s Town A
Pool D: Rongotai College

Girls
Pool A: Wellington East
Pool B: St Mary’s
Pool C: Wainuiomata

Crossover results:

Boys quarterfinals

• Silverstream 26 -Bishop Viard College7
• Rongotai College 22 v St Bernard’s College 10
• Scots College 35 - Wellington College 14
• St Pat’s A 26 - Porirua College 0

Boys Bowl Semi-finals

• Naenae College 28 – St Pat’s B 12
• Wainuiomata 41 - Taita College 5

Girls Cup semi-finals

• St Mary’s 38 – Wellington East 12
• Wainuiomata 22 - Porirua 12

Boys Plate Semi-finals

• Bishop Viard 42 - St Bernard’s 19
• Wellington College 24 - Porirua College 17

Boys Cup Semi-finals

• Silverstream 24 - Rongotai College 14
• St Pat’s Town A 26 – Scots College 15

Boys Bowl Final

• Wainuiomata College 10 - Naenae College 5

Boys Plate Final

• Bishop Viard College 24 – Wellington College 19 (19-19 at fulltime)

Girls Cup Final

• St Mary’s 29 – Wainuiomata 14

Boys Cup Final

• St Pat’s Town 34 – Silverstream 19