On Saturday, the North Harbour Rugby Union hosted a 6 team New Zealand Women’s Rugby Invitational Tournament at QBE Stadium. Teams from Northland, Auckland Samoa, BOP, Wellington, Auckland Thunder and North Harbour competed throughout the day in good spirits and provided the crowd with a day of entertaining, skilful Women’s rugby.
The Harbour Hibiscus Women’s team beat Auckland Thunder 26 -5 and BOP Development 15 - 7 in pool play and come up against Wellington Barbarians in the final. It was a tough, physical game and was 5 – 5 right up until a penalty was kicked on the final whistle by Briar McNamara to win the game for Harbour 8 -5 and earn herself MVP of the tournament.
The day was a huge success and has given the Harbour Hibiscus Women’s team confidence and momentum leading into their upcoming fixtures –
August 29th – vs Northland @ Whangarei RFC 1pm
Spetember 6th – vs Auckland Thunder @ Kapaitiki Park 2.30pm
September 12th – vs BOP Development @ Rotorua 1pm