NZ MARIST RUGBY FEDERATION -
Spillane Tournaments 2001 and 2000
(results and photos)

Easter 2001, Hastings

The origins of this tournament go back to 1925 with the original match for the Spillane Cup played between Wellington and Wanganui. And 76 years on this the largest affiliated club rugby tournament in the world will once again bring New Zealand Marist affiliated clubs together for a weekend of competitive rugby and fellowship.

Easter 2001 in Hastings will be a real weekend of "Grassroots Rugby" New Zealand Marist style.

Make sure your Club is represented

2001 SPILLANE TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Saturday 14 April

SPILLANE CUP
	Napier - 62	v	Palmerston North - 0
	Hamilton - 31	v	Ardmore - 29
HAM CUMMING
	North Harbour - 52	v	Wanganui 19
	Hastings 60	v	Wairoa 0
BRENNAN
	Hutt Valley 26	v	Auckland Colts 17
	Gisborne 31	v	Greerton 7
MORAN CUP (COLTS)
	Ardmore 33	v	Wellington 30
	North Harbour 31	v	Hutt Valley 0
LISTON CUP (COLTS)
	Hastings 17	v	Napier 5
	Palmerston North 67	v	Gisborne 3
PRESIDENTS
	Hastings vs Te Awamutu	v	Te Awamutu (no score kept)

Monday 16th April

SPILLANE CUP FINAL

Hamilton 13 (Sam Griffen try, Mark van Gisbergen conversion, 2 penalties).
Napier 7 (Mark O'Shaughnessy try, Tim Manawatu conversion)

Relegation match
Ardmore 71 Palmerston North 15

HAM CUMMING CUP FINAL

North Harbour 62 Hastings 7

Relegation match
Wanganui 6 Wairoa 3

BRENNAN CUP FINAL

Hutt Valley 34 Gisborne 10

Auckland Colts beat Greerton by default

MORAN CUP FINAL

Ardmore 32 North Harbour 26

Napier beat Gisborne by default.

2001 SPILLANE TOURNAMENT TEAM

Wayne Barr (Hamilton), Brent Ngawini (Ardmore), Nick Tua (Wanganui), Tim Manawatu (Napier), Howard King (Hamilton), Mark van Gisbergen (Hamilton), Reece Spee (Hastings), Mark O'Shaughnessy (Napier), Ria Ruaputu (Hamilton), Nick Dawson (Hamilton), Reece Robinson (Napier, captain), Kristian Ormsby (Ardmore), Api Apelu (Hamilton), Joe Ward (North Harbour), Tony Woodcock (North Harbour). Reserves: Kris Browne (Hamilton), Tim Story (Hastings), Andrew Urquhart (Napier), Anton Edwards (Hamilton), Troy Balderstone (North Harbour), Michael Johnson (Napier), Chris Gibbes (Hamilton), Craig Glendenning (Ardmore).

2001 Gallery

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Winning Hamilton Marist captain Chris Gibbes is presented with the 2001Spillane Cup from Hastings tournament chairman Ken Russell

Beaten finalists Napier Old Boys Marist's captain Glen Varcoe congratulates the winners and commends his troops for their sterling efforts against the back to back winners

Napier's hard running
No.8 and former Hamilton Marist player Mark O'Shaugnessy heads for the try line. His elation was short lived as he suffered a broken arm late in the closely fought Spillane final won by Hamilton 13-7

O'Shaughnessy
breeches Hamilton's tryline.

SPILLANE CUP 2000
	Hamilton - 24	v	Palm Nth - 11
	Ardmore - 49	v	Hastings - 0
HAM CUMMING
	Napier - 60	v	Gisborne - 0
	North Harbour - 8	v	Wanganui - 13
BRENNAN
	UTIKI XV - 8	v	Wairoa - 11
	Invitation - 45	v	MSP - 8
COLTS
	Auckland - 70	v	Palm North - 7
	Wellington - 11	v	North Harbour - 25
	Masterton - 11	v	Hutt Valley - 37
	Wanganui	v	Invitation - 34
PRESIDENTS
	Wanganui Celtic - 7	v	Te Awamutu - 0

RESULTS - Monday

SPILLANE CUP : Final:

Hamilton - 29 (Brett Beagley, Sam Griffin tries, Mark van Eisberg 3 pen, 2 cons)

Ardmore 22 (Roroy Jackson, Lance Kidd, Craig Glendinning tries, Dwayne Grace pen, AJ Derwin 2 cons)

(HT - 16-8)

Relegation Match :
Palmerston North - 61 vs Hastings - 3 (HT 22 - 3)

HAM CUMMING CUP : Final:

Napier 30 (Clint Chamerlain 2, Glen Varcoe tries, Waka Petera 3 pens, 3 cons)

Wanganui 10 (Jason Hamlin, Shane Kenny tries)

Relegation Match :
North Harbour 22 vs Gisborne 12

BRENNAN CUP : Final:

Wairoa - 35 (Ian Batty 2, Sam Runga 2, Adrian Mitchell 2 tries, Shane Walker pen, con)

MSP (Wellington) 33 (Paulo Taliauli, Gareth Williams tries, pen try, Mike Mike Pervan 3 pen, 3con.

MORAN CUP (Colts) Final:

North Harbour 30 bt Auckland 28

Relegation Match:
Marist St Pats -15 bt Palmerston North - 5

LISTON CUP (Colts)

Wanganui - 24 bt Masterton - 3

NORTH ISLAND MARIST SENIOR TOURNAMENT TEAM

D Grace (Ardmore) , C Chamberlain (Napier), W September (Ardmore), J Vulakoro (PN), A Myers (Ardmore), M vans Gibergen (Hamilton), M Lunavich (NH), H Lewis (Hastings), M Holah (Hamilton) CAPTAIN , R Robinson (Napier), S Slater (Hamilton), C Glendinning (Ardmore), T Rutherford (Hamilton), A Edwards (Hamilton), W Hapi (Hastings)

RESERVES - A Parsons, D Waller (PN), Y Urkidi, R Jackson (Ardmore), S Brider, C Masoe (Wanganui), K Tametea (Hastings)

2000

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