Rugby: North Harbour make great start to NPC season

4:30 PM

North Harbour have trounced Counties Manukau 58-15 in this afternoon's NPC match at North Harbour Stadium.

Harbour scored a mammoth ten tries overall - seven coming in the second half.

Harbour wing Karl Te Nana scored two as did his teammate Aisea Tuilevu.

The other Harbour try-scorers were: Slade McFarland, Matua Parkinson, Marc Ellis, Rua Tipoki, and substitutes Willie Walker and John Beckett.

In at first-five for Harbour, Ellis converted four out of the ten tries.

Despite being first on the scoreboard with a successful penalty kick by Brian Feeney in the game's first five minutes, Counties could muster only two tries in reply to the Harbour onslaught.

The two tries came in the second half from Koula Tukino and debut-player Peter Petelo.

Feeney was only successful in converting Tukino's try.

In other first division action, Northland have beaten Southland 41-25 in Invercargill.