Three players who triumphed in the Hawke’s Bay Super 8 netball final on Wednesday will be in action on the rugby field on Saturday as the Hawke’s Bay Tui try to set-up a home semifinal in the Farah Palmer Cup national women’s rugby premiership.
Tietie Aiolupotea gets a start while All In: Elusive netball teammates Leykin Rowlands and Lua Semisi have been named on the substitutes’ bench for the match against Counties Manukau at Pukekohe, starting at 12.05pm on Saturday.
The Tui, promoted from the second-tier championship division at the end of last season, have already guaranteed their spot in the top four for the semifinals and are placed fourth going into the last weekend of the round-robin phase of the competition.
They can get into the top two and thus claim a home semifinal if they win, and the current second- and third-placed sides, Auckland and Waikato, are both beaten.
