Above: St Pat’s Silverstream celebrating after winning the Condor 7s.?UPDATED: St Pats Silverstream has won the Wellington Condor Sevens secondary schools title, rallying from 14-0 down and scoring a last-minute try to defeat Scots College, 17-14.Silverstream attacked initially and breaks by Sione Uvea and Joe Apikotoa had them pressing inside the 22.However two mistakes resulted in two runaway tries for Scots. Malo Manao scored the first try sprinting 65-metres from a fumble and then Manao and Thomas Umaga-Jensen linked to put TJ Va’a under the posts...More

Above: Wellington in their halftime huddle in the Central Coast Sevens final against Daveta. Thanks to bartv.com.au for their live internet coverage of the tournamentThe Wellington men’s team has missed out 19-31 in the final of the Central Coast Sevens tournament to Fijian favourites Daveta.?After winning all their five games up to the final, Wellington ran out of gas at the last hurdle against the recent World Club Sevens champions, who broke a 14-14 halftime deadlock to score to quick-fire tries immediately after halftime to seal the match...More

UPDATED: The Wellington Men’s Sevens team has topped Pool A of the Central Coast 7s tournament in Australia after today’s opening day.?Played in hot, blustery conditions north of Sydney, Wellington has had wins over Fijian side Redrock, Australian based team Te Whanau and the Stars from USA.Wellington will play the runner-up of Pool D in their Cup quarterfinal, local club side Warringah, in the opening match on Sunday at 11.50 am NZT.?Wellington 15 (Ambrose Curtis 2, Murphy Taramai tries)Redrock 7Ambrose Curtis started and finished the scoring in the three tries to one first-up win over last year’s Central Coast 7s runners-up Redrock of Fiji...More

After hosting the WRFU club 7s event last week, Naenae College will again be the venue for 7s action on Labour Day Monday with the final act of the 2014 College Rugby season; the regional qualifying tournament for the national Condor Sevens tournament in Auckland at the end of next month.Twenty teams will be in action this year. Eight teams will again contest the Girls competition, with 12 in the Boys. The latter number is a drop on last year with Hutt International Boys (who made the semi-finals) the notable absentee this time around...More

Above: Members of the Wellington Sevens team during last weekend’s WRFU Open tournament at Naenae College.The Wellington men’s Sevens team are expecting to come up against some high quality, fast-paced competition when they arrive at the Central Coast 7s tournament this weekend.Four pools of four will compete in the 16-team men’s division on day one, with $20,000AUD in prize money up for grabs on day two for the Cup winners.?Wellington are in a Pool with Redrock, Te Whanau Sportz and Stars Rugby, all specialist Sevens rugby teams from Fiji, Australia and the USA...More

The second annual New Zealand Women’s Rugby Invitational tournament (NZWRIT) was played last weekend in Hamilton, involving six teams from around the North Island including a Wellington Barbarians side (pictured above).?The NZWRIT is an NZRU initiative to help grow the game at the next level, created for provincial union women's representative rugby teams who currently do not compete in the Women's Provincial Competition.?Teams in this year’s competition included Auckland Samoa, BOP Development, Taranaki, Waikato Development, North Harbour and Wellington Barbarians...More

(Above) TJ Perenara and Victor Vito discussing where to go for lunch in Chicago, whilst playing for the Wellington Lions recently.Eight current Wellington players are back in black for the All Blacks' and Maori All Blacks’ end of tours, kicking off at the start of November.Hooker Dane Coles (Poneke), lock Jeremy Thrush (Hutt Old Boys Marist), loose forward Victor Vito (Marist St Pat’s), halfback TJ Perenara (Northern United), centre three-quarter Conrad Smith (Old Boys University) and wing three-quarters Julian Savea (Oriental Rongotai) and Cory Jane (Upper Hutt Rams) are in the All Blacks squad...More

Above: Ryan Setefano, playing for the WRFU representative team, evades his Marist St Pat’s club teammates in Pool Play in today’s WRFU Open Sevens tournament?The Wellington representative Men’s team, the St Pat’s Silverstream school team and the Avalon club were the three Cup winners from today’s WRFU Open Sevens tournament held at Naenae College.The Wellington representative side won the Men’s Cup final, St Pat’s Silverstream won the Colts final and Avalon took out the Women’s final...More

Above: Wellington Pride prop Muteremoana Aiatu celebrating scoring her try in the Women's NPC over Hawke's Bay.??It wasn't sparkling rugby but it was the result that mattered for the Wellington Pride, finishing their 2014 Women’s NPC season with a bonus point 36-10 win over the Hawke’s Bay Tuis today at Porirua Park.?A try each to props Mueremoana Aiatu and Janet Taumoli, one to left wing Timena Tuma’ai and a brace to second five-eighth Georgia Daals saw the Pride pull clear in the second half to win their second match of the season and see them finish the Women’s NPC in seventh of the nine teams, ahead of the Tuis and the Bay of Plenty Volcanix...More

Above: All Blacks Sevens player George Tilsley helping Tawa beat Poneke in the Men’s Cup final and winning this tournament last year.Update: The Sevens rugby season gets underway in Wellington tomorrow with the first of two official Wellington Rugby Football Union club Sevens tournaments taking place at Naenae College.?Thirty three teams representing 13 clubs, four school teams, one representative squad and two Wellington Fiji sides are set down to be at the starting gates for tomorrow’s WRFU Open 7s Tournament...More