Semi-finals will also be played on Saturday in the Blues and Chiefs regions in the North Island, as will the Southern Region final, deciding the first team for the Top 4 playoffs on September 4-6.
Meanwhile, Lindisfarne’s Second XV won the Hawke’s Bay schools’ Division 1 title on Saturday with a 50-10 win over defending champions Te Aute College.
Doug Laing is a Hawke’s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier since 1987, when he started a second term with the Daily Telegraph. He has had more than four decades covering news and sports events and issues in the region since starting as a cadet reporter at the Central Hawke’s Bay Press in Waipukurau in 1973.