St Paul's started slowly; they seemed troubled by the very wet conditions and lacked urgency in their play. The enthusiastic Tauranga Boys College adapted to the conditions quickly. They scored two goals in the last four minutes of the half, and were leading two-nil at half time, after many attacks into our circle.
Coach Hardman asked for better structure and organisation, and improvements to skill level. The team lifted their efforts to finally score from a well taken a stroke from Alec Wilson after sustained pressure from our forwards. However, Tauranga came back to score two goals from a miscommunication and poor passes. St Paul's had the better half having 70% of the territory but failed to take up their opportunities.
We lacked the killer instinct and suffered for their poor position play and skills within the opposition circle by losing 4 – 1 to Tauranga Boys College and Ballantyne Cup.
Player of the day: Sam Holmes
