Jubilee Cup Round 6 results (home team first):Marist St Pat's 26 v Wainuiomata 14; Oriental Rongotai 43 v Tawa 5; Petone 12 v Northern United 59; Upper Hutt 17 v Hutt Old Boys Marist 64Hardham Cup Round 6 results (home team first):Poneke 24 v Old Boys University 18; Rimutaka 36 v Northern United B 28; Wests Roosters 39 v Johnsonville 16; Marist St Pat's B 59 v Wainuiomata B 5Check full results, scores and scorers and updated points tables on the Draws & Results pages above on Sunday.Defending champions Oriental Rongotai, Marist St Pat's and Northern United booked their Wellington Jubilee Cup places with next week's seventh and final round to spare with each registering big penultimate round wins in bright sunshine today...More

Six into four won’t go. That’s the equation facing those teams still in contention of making the Jubilee Cup semi-finals in a fortnight’s time. Results on last weekend’s fifth round set of matches realistically mean five teams are still right in the hunt for semi-finals places, with a sixth, Hutt Old Boys Marist, still in the mix if the stars align for them.Defending champions Oriental-Rongotai remain top of the table with 20 points, despite losing to Northern United in the gloom at Porirua Park last week, but Marist St Pat’s (19), Norths (17), Tawa (15) and Wainuiomata (15) can all still hope to make the top four and can also still hope to host home semi-finals...More

Above: it was tough going in New Zealand's leading club rugby competition on Saturday with steady rain falling all afternoon. Here heavyweights Ories and Norths are about to pack down for an early scrum in their clash, won 8-3 by Norths.? Jubilee Cup Round 5 results (home team first):MSP 55 v Petone 5; Northern United 8 v Oriental-Rongotai 3; Hutt Old Boys Marist 3 v Wainuiomata 0; Tawa 16 v Upper Hutt 3Hardham Cup Round 5 results (home team first):MSP B 17 v Poneke 18; Northern United B 5 v Wests Roosters 20; Old Boys University 46 v Wainuiomata B 0; Johnsonville 15 v Rimutaka 16Scores, scorers and points tables in the Draws & Results section above will be updated by Sunday Marist St...More

Leaders Oriental-Rongotai can officially qualify for the Jubilee Cup semi-finals with a fortnight to spare, while it's the last throw of the dice as far as this year's playoffs go for winless trio Upper Hutt, Hutt Old Boys Marist and Petone in this week's fifth round set of Jubilee Cup matches in Wellington.With three rounds to play ahead of the Jubilee Cup semi-finals on 4 August, unbeaten Ories, five points clear at the top on 19, are just a win away from booking their place in the championship rounds, while below them a real dogfight is unfolding for the other three spots with four teams clustered together between 11-14 points...More

Above: OBU and American Eagle prop Eric Fry heads to a lineout in his side's Swindale Shield round two match earlier in the season against the Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles. After heading home for a month to play in the three Tests for the USA Eagles against Canada, Georgia and Italy, Eric Fry has recently returned to Wellington to continue his burgeoning rugby career and try to help his adopted Old Boys University side win the Hardham Cup.2011 USA Rugby World Cup prop Fry arrived at OBU at the start of the season, along with USA Eagles teammate Taylor Mokate, playing the opening nine rounds of the Swindale Shield before linking up with the USA national side for the June internationals in Kingston Canada, Denver Colorado and Houston Texas...More

Above: Ories No. 8 Joe Maiava powers away off the back of a scrum as part side's 55-15 win over Petone. Returning to the scene of their Jubilee Cup final win last year against Norths, Ories made the home team pay for turnovers and missed tackles, racing away to win eight tries to two and almost certainly booking their place into the semi-finals. Jubilee Cup Round 4 results (home team first):MSP 20 v Tawa 13; Northern United 31 v Hutt Old Boys Marist 18; Petone 15 v Oriental-Rongotai 55; Wainuiomata 13 v Upper Hutt 10Hardham Cup Round 4 results (home team first):MSP B 20 v Johnsonville 6; Northern United B 10 v Old Boys University 34; Wainuiomata B 26 v Rimutaka 22; Wests Roosters 0 v Poneke 45 Updated Sunday: Locks played leading hands in two of the fourth round Jubilee Cup matches that were played in welcome bright sunshine around Wellington on Saturday...More

The championship end of the 2012 Wellington club rugby season is fast approaching and with both the Hardham and Jubilee Cups set to get ever more exiting over the final month of round-robin play.Four of the eight Jubilee Cup contenders are grouped together on the points table behind frontrunners Oriental-Rongotai and are ready to strike, while in the Hardham Cup there's a four-way battle developing for two semi-finals positions behind runaway joint leaders Poneke and Old Boys University...More

Above: Halftime at Maidstone Park in round three between Upper Hutt and Wellington in the Senior 1 Ed Chaney Cup. Wellington went down 12-16 to Upper Hutt in their first loss of the season. In round four they host neighbours Poneke at Hataitai Park at 3.00pm. Poneke's three straight Senior 1 Second round wins have been tight: 9-7 over Upper Hutt, 11-10 over Tawa and 16-15 over OBU. Jubilee Cup Round 3 results (home team first):Petone 20 v Wainuiomata 50; Oriental-Rongotai 44 v Hutt Old Boys Marist 13; Tawa 20 v Northern United 13; Upper Hutt 0 v Marist St Pat's 38Hardham Cup Round 3 results (home team first): Rimutaka 10 v Wests Roosters 13; Old Boys University 31 v Marist St Pat's B 10; Poneke 52 v Northern United B 5; Johnsonville 23 v Wainuiomata B 6 Wainuiomata scored 38 unanswered points from late in the first half to power past Petone 50-20, while Swindale Shield Champions Hutt Old Boys Marist's season is on the skids after losing 13-44 to Oriental-Rongotai in third round Jubilee Cup matches on Saturday...More

An opening fortnight of rollercoaster results in both the Jubilee and Hardham Cups is predicted to continue into this Saturday's third round of Premier and Premier 2 rugby.Expect the unexpected was the catch-cry of Hurricanes teams for several years. The phrase could well be applied to this season's Wellington club competitions where unpredictability of results and even contests across the board have become the norm. Nothing can be taken for granted and on any day any team can beat another...More

Above: The Moananu brothers, from left to right: Misapalauni, Fa'atoto and Misiluni, who have all given tremendous service to the Poneke clubIt's said that once you join Poneke you become part of a family; you don't just play, you belong! The Moananu brothers epitomise all of this. One member of the Poneke family, Misiluni Moananu, is set to reach a significant Poneke club milestone on Saturday when he takes the field for his 200th Premier run-on match. Luni will join an exclusive recent club headed by former players and Premier coaches such as Grant Griffiths (287 games), Paul Hakaraia (255), Fred Baker (235), Dave Mahanaga (235), Harry Burgon (212), current Wellington Lions and Hurricanes assistant coach Richard Watt (209) and John Jackson (208)...More