Melville Intermediate - Cambridge Rippa Rugby

On Friday 15th May 2012 Melville Intermediate School competed in the Waikato Rippa Rugby Finals.  One of the schools competing against Melville was Cambridge Middle School who had triumphed against us at the Inter Intermediate Finals.  Melville (in Red/Green) and Cambridge (Blue).  The highlights were filmed by Veronica from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Game Highlights

On May 18th around ten people from Melville Intermediate School went to Flagstff to play in the Waikato regional Rippa Rugby tournament. When we arrived we were very nervous but we decided that we were still not going to back down. Our first game occurred, the whistle went and we were on our way playing against Putaruru College. After a hard game we lost, but we still held our heads up high. All the games were hard on the day, there were no easy teams. In the final we had to play against Matamata Intermediate School, and although they defeated us, our 'B' team finished as runners up in the competition which means that we make it through to the next stage of the competition, the Tri-Nations finals which is three days after we get back from our Winter Olympics sports camp. This is highlights from the quarter finals. Report by Joey, filming by Veronica from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Vs. Matamata

Highlights of the quarter final between Melville Intermediate School (in Red and Green) and Matamata Intermediate School (in Yellow and Blue) from the Waikato Finals for Rippa Rugby held at Jansen Park, Hamilton on Friday 18th May 2012. Filmed by Veronica from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Waikato Finals 2012

On Friday the 19th May Melville Intermediate had two teams competing in the Waikato Rippa Rugby Finals. Melville Intermediate 'A' team started the day with a narrow loss 4-6 to Tainui Full Primary School, then defeated St Patricks 6-2, lost to Matamata Intermediate 'A' 4-6, beat Matamata 'B' 5-2, lost to Putaruru 6-7 before finishing with a loss to Cambridge 'A' 2-5. Melville Intermediate 'B' started with a 7-5 win against Putaruru, had a 3-3 draw with Tainui Full Primary, beat St Patricks 6-4, defeated Matamata 'A' 5-2 and defeated Matamata Intermediate 'B' 8-4. They then had a semi-final against Ngataihaua and beat them 6-3 before playing in the final against Matamata Intermediate 'A' where they lost 4-6. Rippa Rugby Waikato Finals 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Hamilton Final 2012

On Wednesday 2nd May 2012 Waikato Rugby held their annual 'Rippa Rugby' Tournament for Schools in the Hamilton area.  Each School was allowed to field two teams in competition and after a full day of games only two teams remained - Melville Intermediate 'A' team - who played Melville Intermediate 'B' team in the final! It was a situation created by Melville Intermediate's two teams suffering only a solitary defeat the entire day.  As the top two teams advance towards the Waikato wide finals coming up in a couple of weeks, so the game was something of a friendly encounter but you wouldn't know it by how close the action was! Melville 'A' were only slight too good for Melville 'B' winning 3-2.  Filmed by Veronica from Room Five, at Swarbrick Park, Hamilton.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Vs. Crawshaw School

This video, filmed by Veronica from Room Five is highlights of Melville Intermediate Schools game against fellow Hamilton School Crawshaw School.  For those of you who haven't seen or heard of 'Rippa Rugby' instead of teams having to tackle other players both sets of players have a Velcro belt with two tags on it, one on each hip.  Players from the other team 'rip' one of the tags off to affect a tackle.  This tournament was very special because Melville Intermediate had two teams in the tournament, both of whom made the finals.  Our School teams only lost one pool play game, when Melville Intermediate 'B' were defeated by Crawshaw School, this game!
 

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Vs. Fairfield

On Tuesday 2nd May Melville Intermediate 'B' Rippa Rugby team faced Fairfield Intermediate 'A' in the final game for both teams in pool play of the competition.  Melville Intermediate 'B' had bounced back from losing to Crawshaw earlier in the day but were also hoping to win this game to avoid playing Melville Intermediate 'A' in the Semi-Finals! A nail biting game, with high lights here filmed by Veronica from Room Five.  Filmed at Swarbrick Park, Hamilton as part of the Hamilton Schools Rippa Rugby Field Day run by Waikato Rugby.

Melville Interemediate - Rippa Rugby Hamilton Finals 2012

Rippa 2012 - Hamilton Finals on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Hamilton Rippa Rugby 2012

On Wednesday 2nd May 2012 Melville Intermediate competed in the Hamilton 'Rippa Rugby' Tournament held at Swarbrick Park, Dindsdale.   Melville fielded two teams in competition.  Our 'A' Team had an incredibly successful day, defeating Whatawhata School 9-2, St Pius 6-2, Fairfield Intermediate 'B' 10-2 before finally defeating Raglan Area School 10-5.  This put the team into the semi finals where they came up against Fairfield Intermediate 'A'.  The game was tied at 5-5 all and went to sudden death, which was won after a drop off by Melville 6-5.   Which left only the final game...

Melville Intermediate's other team, the 'B' team had a quite successful day too.  They defeated Raglan Area School 10-4, lost to Crawshaw School 6-7, defeated Toku Mapihi Maurea 8-0 and Rhode Street School 6-3.  Their final pool game saw them defeat Fairfield Intermediate 'A' 5-3.  That put them into the Semi-Finals as well against St Pius, who they defeated 6-3.

Which meant that Melville Intermediate School played each other in the final.  And both teams have now qualified for the Waikato wide final which will take place in a fortnights time.  Well done to Mr Keegan and all the team!