Women’s Club, NZ Ambassadors and Schoolboys rugby

WOMEN’S CLUB: The WRFU Women’s Club Rugby completed its first round robin games as Taihape defeated the Marton Queen Bee’s 24-5 at Marton Park on Sunday. The anticipated Kaierau vs Marist game at Cooks Gardens on Friday night had to be cancelled due to a bout of illness through the Kaierau side.

NZ AMBASSADORS XV: Wanganui Car Centre Kaierau’s Brook Tremayne has left to join the NZ Ambassadors XV who will play the Czech Republic national team in June, as well as enter the Prague Rugby Sevens tournament. Also in the squad are Whanganui expat cousins Cade Robinson and Sam Dawson, who previously played in the 2019 team.

SCHOOLS: The schoolboy competitions are getting underway as on Saturday, the teams of Whanganui High School 1^st XV, Cullinane College 1^st XV and Whanganui Collegiate 2^nd XV played a Game of Three Halves. WHS picked up two wins, beating Cullinane 27-5 and Collegiate 25-7, while Collegiate got a 15-5 win over Cullinane. The Collegiate 1^st XV faced Hato Pāora in their Traditional fixture and won 103-0. Collegiate also won the Under 15 game with Hato Pāora 20-5.