The Timaru Herald

Southland Boys win

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The Southland Boys’ High School first XV has produced a gutsy display on their way to beating Otago Boys’ High School for the second straight year in the traditiona­l inter-school rugby fixture. The Invercargi­ll school won the thrilling contest 13-12 in a performanc­e built on plenty of courage in defence. Southland opened the scoring after just six minutes and added a penalty for a 10-0 halftime lead. Five minutes into the second half Otago Boys’ scored at try but Pope landed his second penalty to stretch the score out to 13-5 but it was far from over. Otago scored their second try to halfback James Arscott to bring it back to 13-12 and set up a tense finish. Otago Boys’ were however missing three players for the trip to Invercargi­ll because of suspension following incidents in their previous inter-school fixture against Kings High School.

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