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After a protest and an appeal, the outcome of a Hurricanes schools rugby game between Scots College and Feilding High School has been awarded to Scots.
A marathon dispute in a secondary schoolboys rugby competition has ended dramatically with Wellington’s Scots College defaulting the final.
That means Palmerston North Boys’ High are the Hurricanes 1st XV champions and will play in the Top 4 semifinal next Friday. They will take on Southland Boys’ High School in Palmerston North.
The NZ Barbarians National 1st XV Championships posted on Facebook on Friday night that Scots had advised they were unable to field the required number of trained front-rowers and so “have regrettably had to withdraw their challenge’’.
That ended a week of controversy, appeals and counter-appeals.
At the heart of it was the knockout semifinal between Scots and Feilding High School last Saturday.
Scots College won the game in Wellington, 43-35, but Feilding appealed the result to t
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