Newsletter -Edition 17

Inside this issue

* Finals time

* Tickets to Warriors

* Orcas home game schedule

* Juniors Grand Final

* Important dates

* Beau knows Wellington

* Storm in Napier

* Kiwi at Westpac

Kiwi makes an appearance at Westpac Stadium to celebrate their 15th Birthday

Junior Grand Final this Sunday Whakatiki Street 11am start Premier Grand Final Sat 8th August Westpac Stadium 12.30pm kick off- Gates open 12.15pm Reserves/Senior 1st Grand Finals Sat 15th Aug Hutt Recreation Ground Beau knows Wellington Westpac Stadium’s Birthday

Last Saturday Westpac Stadium NRL Footy Show funny man Beau turned 15 and to celebrate opened Ryan touched down in it’s doors for all to enjoy a very Wellington to promote the special birthday party. upcoming Warriors v Dragons The Stadium opened from 10am to match at Westpac Stadium. 3pm as part of the Capital’s 150th Open House event. There were He started at the Wellington loads of activities on offer including Railway station interviewing test out your sporting skills on the commuters and having photos with pitch or take a look around the fans. changing rooms to see where your favourite sporting stars prepare He then had a Weta workshop before the big matches. make over and was dressed in a full Hobbit costume. NZRL mascot Kiwi did a fantastic job With current Warriors centre at the event including coming second he filmed his in the mascot sprint. popular skit ‘Beau Knows’ One of our junior teams Randwick 7’s ran a training session at the stadium “It’s cold, but I’ve been all through inland New South Wales lately so to promote our great game. I’m used to it, I like New Zealand!” Ryan said. Storm in Napier

Hometown hero had a hand later when Nelson Asofa-Solomona days before almost being driven back They still had enough time to have tries in two tries as the ’s bullocked his way over from short range in-goal. The Red V kept up the intensity to Blake Green and a second to Fonua Napier experiment paid off in style, to chalk up his first NRL try. to force Cronk to kick from inside his ruled out for forward passes as the fire downing St George Illawarra 22-4 at own 20m. went out of the Dragons before they McLean Park. When Marshall tried to repeat his earlier claimed a late consolation to centre pass three minutes before the break, They were again to the fore soon after Peter Mata’utia. A crowd of 14,532 witnessed the first Hawke’s Bay-born Harris was alert to the interval with five tacklers combining NRL match in the Hawke’s Bay city and the danger. to thwart a hard-charging Kevin Proctor were treated to a masterclass by the from extending the Storm lead. Storm at their efficient best to condemn Playing in front of his family sitting in the Dragons to their seventh straight the aptly-named Harris Stand, he But they struggled to get anything loss. intercepted the pass to send a flying going on attack and seconds after a Marika Koroibete, who had been denied chant of “Melbourne, Melbourne” rang The only negative for Craig Bellamy’s earlier in the half, away on an 80m dash out Proctor latched onto a short ball men was the sight of to the line. from Cronk to extend the ‘home’ side’s leaving the field late on with what lead 15 minutes after the resumption. appeared to be a quadriceps injury. The 12-0 halftime deficit was perhaps a little harsh on the Dragons who had Harris, who designed the one-off After an error-strewn opening on a matched their pre-game talk of an jersey worn by the Storm, then had his greasy surface, the desperate Dragons improved defensive effort in the Storm’s second assist of the night to retrieve looked to have taken the lead in the 27th opening set. a knockdown from a Cronk bomb and minute when a wide cut-out pass from send Mahe Fonua over in the corner to sent defused a testing bomb for put them up 22-0 and the result beyond over in the corner only for it to be called his first touch in a Storm jersey in 847 doubt. back for a forward pass.

The Storm made them pay a minute

Wellington boy Nelson Asofa-Solomona in action for the Storm Wellington Premier competition

Photo kindly supplied by Daryl New http://photonews.webs.com

Last weekend University Hunters & Wainuiomata Lions battled it out with a very close game to avoid elimination. Congratualtions to Wainuiomata Lions who defeat University Hunters 36-22.

In the other Semi Final Te Aroha Eels defeat Randwick Kingfishers 34-22. Congratulations Te Aroha Eels who now secure a place in the Wellington Rugby League Grand Final at Westpac Stadium.

This Saturday Randwick Kingfishers will play Wainuiomata Lions at Naenae Park, kick off 2.30pm. The winner will play Te Aroha Eels in the Grand Final. Good luck to both of the Premier teams competing this weekend for their spot in the 2015 Grand Final.

Visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wellington-Rugby-League/149807975039915 Wellington Rugby League Reserves & Senior 1st competition

Premiers Reserves 1pm Porirua Vikings vs. University Hunters, Ascot #1 Titahi Bay Marlins vs. Randwick Kingfishers, Onepoto Park Upper Hutt Tigers vs. Te Aroha Eels, Whakatiki Street 1 Trentham Titans Won By Default Wainuiomata Lions BYE

Senior First ALL at 1pm or otherwise stated Porirua City Phoenix vs. University Hunters, Cannons Creek #1 Kapiti Bears vs. Randwick Kingfishers, 12pm, Matthews Park Wainuiomata Indigenous Lions vs. Wainuiomata Fitzroy Lions, Wise Park #2

Visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wellington-Rugby-League/149807975039915 6’s Sat 1st August Field Porirua v Kapiti 9.45am Cannons Creek 2A Te Aroha v Wainuiomata 12pm Matthews Park Titahi Bay BYE 7’s Sat 1st August Field Wainui Green v Te Aroha 9.45am McEwan Park 2C Wainui Lion Kings v Randwick 10.30am McEwan Park 2C St George v Titahi Bay 10.30am Cannons Crk 2A Petone v University 10.30am McEwan Park 2A Whiti Te Ra BYE

8’s Sat 1st August Field Porirua v Upper Hutt 9.45am Cannons Creek 2B Kapiti v Whiti Te Ra 10.30am Matthews Prk Petone v Wainuiomata 10.30am McEwan Park 2B St George v Titahi Bay 9.45am Cannons Crk Mini 2C 9’s Sat 1st August Field Whiti Te Ra v Upper Hutt 10.30am Cannons Crk 2B Wainuiomata v University 9.45am McEwan Park 2B Petone v Randwick 9am McEwan Park 2B St George BYE 10’s Sat 1st August Field Te Aroha v Wainuiomata 9.45am McEwan Park 1 Kapiti Blue v Kapiti White 9.45am Matthews Park 1

Porirua v Whiti Te Ra 9.45am Ascot Park 1 St George v Randwick 9am Cannons Creek 1 11’s Sat 1st August Field Wainui Green v University 10.30am McEwan Park 1 Porirua v Wainui Black 10.30am Ascot Park 1 St George Red v Randwick Gold 9.45am Cannons Creek 1 St George White v Randwick Blue 10.30am Cannons Crk 1

12’s Sun 2nd August Field Whiti Te Ra v Kapiti 1.30pm Otaki Domain 1 Te Aroha v University 11am Whakatiki St 2 Randwick v St George 10am Whakatiki St 2

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