Swindale Shield round 10 scores (home team first): Tawa 17 - MSP 20; Oriental-Rongotai 21 - Petone 6; Rimutaka 0 - Hutt Old Boys Marist 67; Wainuiomata 36 - Wests Roosters 6; Old Boys University 13 - Northern United 25; Poneke 5 - Upper Hutt 27 If Marist St. Pat's go on to scoop the first round Swindale Shield next week at the expense of current frontrunners Hutt Old Boys Marist they will thank Tawa fullback Randall Bishop for missing a late penalty against them at Lyndhurst Park on Saturday...More

First round champions could be found in each of Wellington club rugby's top three grades with a week to spare if the respective Swindale Shield, Harper Lock Shield and National Mutual Cup frontrunners win their penultimate round games this weekend and other results work in their favour. In the Premier Swindale Shield, leaders Hutt Old Boys Marist will win the first round title on Saturday if they beat Rimutaka and second placed Marist St Pat's lose to Tawa. Current form suggests that HOBM will meet Rimutaka's challenge and win their game in this top versus bottom encounter at Old Timers' Day at Maoribank Park...More

Above: Peter Sciascia on the charge against Upper Hutt in 2008, the year he helped MSP win the Swindale Shield-Jubilee Cup double in his first season with the club. Back from a year off, he's aleady made his mark on the 2012 competition and more silverware beckons. It's no coincidence that when Peter Sciascia is on the field the rugby's invariably exciting. The livewire halfback, who has recently returned from back-to-back seasons playing club rugby in Northern Ireland, has made an immediate impact in the three full Swindale Shield games he's played so far in 2012...More

Above: OBU first five-eighth Seminar Manu is caught in the tackle of Poneke's Ben Huntly with nowhere to go. Manu, however, had the last say, kicking the match winning penalty from the sideline to give his team a 22-20 win and most likely sending Poneke to the Hardham Cup for the second round. Just when it seemed that the 2012 Swindale Shield couldn't get any tighter it just has. Some significant ?results in Saturday's ninth round set of matches have ensured that the all-important race for Jubilee Cup spots will go down to the wire over the final fortnight of the first round competition...More

This season's Swindale Shield is proving as wide open as its been for several years, but the race to the title could become clearer after this Saturday's ninth round set of matches.With four of the five current frontrunners set to clash on Saturday and the fifth set down to play a desperate Norths at Porirua there could be some significant movement on the points table later in the day. There's 15 competition points up for grabs for each side over the final three rounds and as it stands there's just six competition points separating the leading five contenders, so rugby fans won't want to miss any of it before they head to Westpac Stadium to watch the Hurricanes take on the Rebels from 5...More

Update: Wellington College won 56-17.For a match report click here Wellington College will be the team to beat when they line up against cross-tunnel rivals St Pat's Town in the Wellington Premier 1 First XV competition opener at Wellington College today at 1.00pm. Today's first round Premier 1 match, which also doubles as a Traditional fixture between the two schools, sees defending champions and recent pre-season Williment Trophy winners Wellington College meet a St Pat's Town side that finished fourth overall last season and won one from three in the Williment Trophy...More

Above: Action from Saturday's Senior 1 Harper Lock Shield match between Tawa and Paremata-Plimmerton. For a photo gallery of this match, courtesy of Tawa rugby, click here Wellington's Marist clubs, Hutt Old Boys Marist and Marist St Pat's both made further gains while big guns Northern United and Poneke could still miss out on the Jubilee Cup after another absorbing round of Swindale Shield Premier club rugby today. Hutt Old Boys Marist maintained their grip at the top of the Swindale Shield standings with a gritty 18-15 win over Poneke on Poneke's Old Timers' Day on Kilbirnie Park...More

Above: Hurricanes lock James Broadhurst on the charge for Rimutaka against Wainuiomata last weekend. Photo courtesy of Nigel Lloyd Heading into the final month of this year's Swindale Shield, the race for the title and the tussle further down the table to finish inside the top eight and play in the Jubilee Cup are both wide open. As it stands, there's still five teams still in with a realistic chance of winning this year's Swindale Shield pending their own results and that of others...More

The Northern United Premier Women's team was presented with the first Wellington club trophy of the year on Saturday, the first round Fleurs Trophy (above). Norths, who wrapped up the title the previous week in taking an unassailable lead into their last match of the five-week round-robin competition, line up alongside the other five women's clubs this weekend for the start for the second round Victoria Tavern Trophy. The 12-week Victoria Tavern Trophy is a double round-robin competition leading to semi-finals and a final and is the next leg of a busy season for the region's leading and aspiring representative women's players...More

Wellington Lions head coach, Chris Boyd, will be holding a trial next week to help pick his squad for the upcoming ITM Cup season. The two teams have been selected from Wellington's club rugby competition.? It will be a city versus suburbs encounter, with a few players swapping sides to see them match up against each other. The City will be coached by Phil Proctor, current Oriental-Rongotai Premier and last year's Jubilee Cup winning coach. He will be joined in the coaching team by Ray MacDonald from Rimutaka...More