Above: Lock Okeamoa-Luamanu on the charge against Scots College in their round-robin meeting earlier in the season. Six Wellington players have been selected for the New Zealand and Barbarians Secondary Schools' teams. All six are from Scots College and St. Patrick's College Silverstream, the top performing First XV's in the capital this year. New Zealand Schools TJ Va'a - Scots College: The son of former Manu Samoa representative Earl Va'a, TJ has been a regular in the Scots College First XV for three seasons...More

Above: Willie Tufui dives over to score a try in the rain last weekend for the Wellington U19s against the Hawke's Bay U19s. Apart from a side trip over to Napier on Wednesday for the Ranfurly Shield challenge, all roads lead to Taupo next week for the Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 Tournament. Wellington, Waikato, Auckland and Canterbury will arrive at the inaugural tournament starting this Sunday as top seeds, to be joined by Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, North Harbour and Otago who make up the other four spots in the Premiership division for the Graham Mourie Cup...More

Above: Left wing Hosea Gear scored a hat-trick of tries against Counties Manukau in 2008. Recent matches between the two unions have generally gone the Lions' way, but some of their early battles were some of the toughest of all? in the NPC. Wellington and Counties (Counties-Manukau since 1996) met for the first time in a representative match at Athletic Park in the inaugural National Provincial Championship competition in 1976. Wellington won 15-4 that day, but it was not a result that was going to be replicated too often over the next decade of matches between the two sides...More

Jarrod Adams, along with his St Pat's Silverstram First XV teammate Losi Filipo, was today named in the New Zealand Barbarians squad to play matches against Australia Schools next Tuesday and Fiji Schools the following Saturday. Adams has only being playing rugby for four years. In that short time Adams has amassed 53 games for Silverstream and scored 19 tries.? A half-century of games for Silverstream is a rare feat. The bustling midfielder and wing says his older brother was the main reason he got into rugby...More

Above: Porirua Park will come alive next Tuesday and Saturday for the International Schools Rugby series, involving the School Blacks, New Zealand Secondary Schools Barbarians and Australia and Fiji Schools teams. The 2014 New Zealand Schools and Barbarian Schools teams to play Australia and Fiji have been named this morning. The New Zealand Schools team and the New Zealand Barbarian Schools teams will both face the touring teams during the series to be played on Tuesday 30 September and Saturday 4 October at Porirua Park, the home of the Jubilee Cup in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010...More

Malo Tuitama (pictured above in last month's Wellington Premier1 final) was a prolific try scorer for the Scots College First XV. In 37 games he scored 60 tries. Malo only failed to score a try in eight games. Malo scored tries in the Wellington semi-final, final and National Top Four semi-final and final. Malo's try scoring feats rank alongside the greats of First XV rugby. John Timu scored 92 tries in 55 games for Lindisfarne College between 1985 and 1987. Grant Batty scored 112 tires for Kuranui College between 1967 and 1969...More

Above: Hawke's Bay's 58-8 Ranfurly Sheld win over Wellington illustrated in a cartoon in the Dominion on 16 August 1926. As the countdown begins for next Wednesday's Ranfurly Shield challenge match in Napier between the Wellington Lions and the Hawke's Bay Magpies, here's a look at some of their battles of yesteryear for the famous Log o' Wood. The 1920s and the 1960s. They were the two great eras for Hawke's Bay rugby, and throughout both decades they staved off numerous Ranfurly Shield challenges, including several from Wellington...More

Above: The Wellington U19s after being presented with the Central Region Shield today following their big win over Hawke's Bay in their third and final match of the Hurricanes Region National U19 Seeding tournament. The Wellington Pride and the Wellington U19s both won well in their competition matches today. The Wellington Pride defeated Bay of Plenty 24-5 in the fifth round of the Women's NPC, while the Wellington U19s over-ran the Hawke's Bay U19s 67-0 in their third and final Hurricanes Seeding Tournament match...More

Newlands College in Wellington's northern suburbs is a co-education school with only three rugby teams. All three teams made finals this year and two won championships. The First XV made a disastrous start to 2014. In grading games Newlands was comprehensively outclassed by Premier One aspirants Rongotai College and Hutt Valley High School. This wasn't entirely surprising for the Premier Two regular. Newlands' final grading game against Kapiti College was a horror show! Lock Anthony Pettett explains what happened...More

Above: Henry Stowers soars high for the Wellington U19s against Taranaki last weekend. The U19s return to Porirua Park to host Hawke's Bay tomorrow Representative rugby around the Wellington region gathers steam tomorrow with visiting teams from Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay set to make a splash in Wellington, while four other local teams are on the road in Levin, Palmerston North and Napier. Dire weather predicted won't put a dampener on the Bay of Plenty Volcanix's arrival to the Petone Recreation Ground for their 12...More