The first of the Last...

Saturday marked the first of the last games of rugby for the season. As the draw has it we were split 4 games 4 different venues, so we split up. Arama went one way with Nauvoo, Renata and Rangikawea and I ventured off the other direction with Rakaipaka, Arama and Hikawera. It was rather chilly when we went to watch Hikawera play. You can see by the photo with the frost on the grass. The kids were trying to warm up for the game, catching the ball with their jacket arms, hands tucked inside..

We brought along a bike or two to keep the younger ones happy, but as you can see it may not have just been for the 'little' ones. While Hikawera played, so did the boys.

What can I say!!!

Hikawera played an awesome game. He ripped and scored 3 Tries. One of which I am sure everyone became so tired of chasing him around in a figure 8 that he finally slipped passed them to score. He received the player of the day award.

After Hikawera's success we ventured through to Massey for Arama's last game of the season with his J1 team. The sun had started to shine by then so we were feeling pretty good.  I had to giggle, Rakaipaka has always loved the waterbottles and usually I spend half the time trying to stop him from systematically drinking from each bottle (Yuck!). I think we have finally figured out how to stop that, and it had to be at the end of the season too... I looked down and found this...

Definately one of the team now...

Arama and his team played really well today. Teancum was on his game with all aspects of his game. He became the tackling machine I know so well. He is a solid strong boy, so when he was making  a break with the ball one of the apponent tried to stop him and ended up like this:

The sound of the two smacking into each other had the spectators in unison "Ohhhh!"

My boy trotted over to his team unscathed, while his apponent was escorted off nursing his shoulder. (That is what happens when you don't wrap up properly!) 

It was a great game. A great way to end off the season. Here is the team.