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Rugby on display at the A&P Show (Friday 14th October 11)

Rugby is on display at this years Gisborne A & P show - click here for photos from the show - or pop down for your opportunity to have your photo taken with the Lochore Cup. Check out the Turanga demo park we have a stand and rugby field set up!

Click here for video footage from the show

Big Win for Poverty Bay Under 16 Team

The Poverty Bay Under 16 team have stamped their mark on the Hurricanes tournament in New Plymouth today, beating Wairarapa Bush 47 -0 in their second game of the tournament. The team have a day off tomorrow, before taking on Wellington Development in the final on Thursday morning. For more information click here

Poverty Bay Under 16's win first game at Hurricanes Tournament

The Poverty Bay Under 16 team have kicked off their Hurricanes tournament in style with a bruising win over Horo Kapiti 19-17. Donald Maka was in good form with two tries and one to Jacob Cook.

The team play Wairarapa Bush tomorrow, before having a day off on Wednesday and the finals on Thursday. Click here for more details

Poverty Bay Lochore Cup Champions

The mighty Poverty Bay Heartland team had an outstanding win over South Canterbury today in Timaru - winning 49-22. The game was a had fought affair for the first 40mins before the bay put their foot down in the second 40 with a number of outstanding tries. Click here for photos from the game. Well done to Grainger, Scotty and the team!

Read the Gisborne Herald for the full match report - click here

Lochore Cup Final Time!!

This Saturday 8th October 2011 will see the mighty Poverty Bay Heartland team take on South Canterbury in the Lochore Cup final. Kick off is 3.05pm at Alpine Energy Stadium in Timaru.

You can listen live to this game courtesy of Newstalk ZB (Timaru) and Turanga FM (Gisborne) on 91.7 from 3.00pm.

For this weeks Heartland Preview click here. You can send your support direct to the team by either sending a fax to their hotel on 03 688 4048 or email them on mark@povertybayrugby.co.nz

Make sure you check back here on Sunday for photos and reaction from the Lochore Cup final!

Rugby World Cup - hits Muriwai and Te Wharau Schools

Muriwai and Te Wharau Schools celebrated the RWC in style yesterday holding their very own Rugby World Cup. Muriwais RWC saw Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the All Blacks play, while at Te Wharau School there were over 200 children representing 18 different countries. Poverty Bay Heartland Captain Scott Leighton along with his partner Holly who is a teacher at Te Wharau were in charge with help from a number of the Poverty Bay Heartland team and Poverty Bay RFU YDO team. The Tonga team top out the title! Click here for some action shots!

Poverty Bays Sione Ngatu named in New Zealand Heartland Team

Poverty Bay standout loose forward Sione Ngatu has today been named in the NZ Heartland tam to take on NZ Marist XV on Saturday 15th October 2011. Our very own Grainger Heikell is the head coach for the team. Read more here.

    Sione Ngatu

Poverty Bay Under 20's and Under 18's Hurricane Champions

The Poverty Bay Under 20's and Under 18's have today won their respective finals in the Hurricanes B Division finals - The Under 20 team had a good win over Wanganui and the Under 18's over Wairarapa Bush.



Watch the Lochore Cup Final - this Thursday night

Poverty Bay win thriller Semi Final

The Poverty Bay Heartland Team have won their Semi final against Buller today 32-30. With 2 minutes to go, it was 30-25, but after a John Steward try under the posts - Poverty Bays Scott Leighton made the conversion to make it 32-30. The Poverty Bay Team now head to Timaru for next weekend's Lochore Cup Final. In other Poverty Bay representative rugby this weekend, our Under 13 team went down 57-19 to Wellington.

Namibian memories

The Namibian Team have now left and headed home - great opportunity to thank all those people who where involved with the hosting of the team, your support and help was very much appreciated! Time to reflect - click here for some images of the teams stay here in Gisborne.

Under 16 Poverty Bay Team go down in the final

The Poverty Bay Under 16 team have gone down to the Wellington Development Team 25-12 in todays Under 16 Hurricanes B Division Final in New Plymouth. The game which was played on the main ground at Yarrow Stadium was held in awful conditions with very heavy rain. Once the team return we will load photos from this weeks tournament.

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