The final Saturday of Round 2 in the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby competition, which was called off due to the state of emergency announced on Friday, will not be played.
That means the competition standings remain as they are and semifinals of the Civil Project Solutions competition will go ahead this Saturday as planned — first-placed East Coast Farm Vets YMP up against fourth-placed Larsawn Ngatapa at Barry Park; second-placed Enterprise Cars OBM taking on third-placed GT Shearing Waikohu at the Oval.
These venues may change if the grounds haven’t improved following the severe weather which crippled weekend sport throughout the region.
The cancellation of Premier games on Saturday spelled the end of the 2023 season for fifth-placed Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates and sixth-placed Earthwork Solution High School Old Boys.
YMP, with the maximum points from nine consecutive bonus-point wins, go in as hot favourites against Ngatapa. They have comfortably won their two clashes this year — 49-10 and 57-12.
