The Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi are rugby champions in 2022. The Hosea Gear-coached, Sam Parkes-led Sky Blues beat the Mid-Canterbury Hammers 25-20 in the Lochore Cup final of the two-tier Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, on Sunday. It was a decade since they'd held aloft the

Sunday looms large for everyone involved in Ngati Porou East Coast rugby. 2022 Lochore Cup Final Ngati Porou East Coast v Mid Canterbury Whakarua Park, Ruatoria For everyone that the national game matters to, for whom it is a part of the fabric and tie to society on the Coast, 1.05pm

Discipline issues, notably when suffering a sin-binning three-quarters of the way through the game, proved costly for Whanganui as it had to bow to South Canterbury's superior control in their 47-36 win to retain the Meads Cup in the Heartland final at Pleasant Point on Saturday. The success was their 24th

It’s finals weekend in the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship. In the Meads Cup final, defending champions South Canterbury host Whanganui in a blockbuster clash at Pleasant Point Domain on Saturday. South Canterbury’s 76-9 win over King Country last weekend was the biggest victory in a playoff game in New Zealand provincial rugby