Y5/6 A Grade Opunake Basketball Finals

On Tuesday 5th July Auroa School had four seperate finals in the same day. Wins in the Y5/6 Crowley Cup Netball Competition against Rahotu School and a further win against Eltham School in Y5/6 Rugby Crowley Cup were a fantastic start - there were two additional finals that night in the Opunake Basketball Competition.   Auroa's Y7/8 Basketball team won their final match, against Rahotu.

The final game of the day was the Y5/6 A Grade Basketball Finals in the Opunake Basketball Competition.  Auroa's Y5/6 team were undefeated throughout the season at this point - coming up against their arch rivals, St Joseph from Opunake.   The game was another epic featuring some of the players who had played already that day in a final, and against each other in the epic Crowley Cup Semi-Final in Boys Rugby which Auroa win.
Auroa/StJosephs20162 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The Basketball ended 30-30 which saw sudden death extra time, in which St Jospehs were able to win the match by two points and claim the season championship.

Rugby Vs. St Josephs Part Two

This is the second half and sudden death highlights from Auroa Primary Schools Crowley Cup Semi-Final against St Josephs Opunake on Wednesday 29th June 2016.  St Josephs are in the Green and White, Auroa in the Blue and Orange.   This game was tied 5-5 at half time, full time and then went to sudden death golden point.   The first half of extra time saw no extra score and the deadlock was broken in the seventh minute of the second half of extra time by Jordan from Room Three.  Epic.

R3 Crowley Cup Highlights Part One

Today Auroa Primays Schools Y5/6 Rugby team travelled to St Josephs Opunake for the semi-final of the 2016 Crowley Cup Rugby Competition. This restricted weight Y5/6 competition has had games throughout the term which culminate in the semi-finals today. Auroa had been through the competition and finished as runners up in their pool thanks to a last minute loss to Eltham Primary School. St Josephs were undefeated and looking to progress forward. The two schools have a traditional rival in the area.

This game was an epic.

Despite the conditions both teams played attacking rugby which led to a 5-5 all scoreline after ten minutes.  This score was retained at half time.  The second half saw a furious twenty minutes of competition where neither side could be separated leading to a 5-5 full time score.   Then follow sudden death golden point extra time - ten minutes of this saw no further score.  A second and final ten minutes period occurred and in the seventh minute of this Auroa School score the winning try.  These are some of the first half highlights:

Y5/6 Rugby League H/L vs. St Jospehs

Yesterday Auroa Primary School competed in the Coastal Y5/6 Rugby League Competition held in Opunake. The first round competition for Auroa saw them taking on St Josephs Opunake in a game that would decide the eventual tournament winner. Auroa are in the purple with orange and St Josephs are in the green. The recording was completed by Rico from Room One, who also provided the commentary and some of the coaching tips. A big thank you for Mr Castle who coached the team and Mr Chittenden who assisted in the running on the day.

Y5/6 Rugby League Vs. St Josephs Opunake from myles webb on Vimeo.

Crowley Cup Highlights from Final 30/6/2015

Bethany from Room Three created these awesome highlights about the Crowley Cup Final played against St Josephs Opunake on Tuesday. In an amazing game St Josephs (Green) defeated Auroa (Purple with Orange). Bethany took several hundred Photographs during this game and as a result created this slideshow with these spectacular images. You can click on the link to her blog here.

Crowley Cup Vs. St Josephs Opunake Results

Today Auroa Primary School hosted St Josephs Opunake in the final of the Crowley Cup Y5/6 Rugby Competition.

It was an amazing game full of drama.  The score see-sawed, Auroa scoring first before St Jospehs Opunake dominated the game to have a seemingly unbeatable lead - however Auroa finished strongly storming back into contention... the final score was Auroa 40 St Jospehs Opunake 43... an amazing game full of excitement.

Room Three had various students filming and taking highlights, those of which will be posted tonight and tomorrow.  Congratulations to St Jospeh's worthy winners and fantastic champions.  To quote Rico from Room Three: "It was a good game Auroa done well St Joseph's put us to a challenge but unfortunately Auroa lost by 3 points."

Highlights and footage will be appearing here shortly.

Crowley Cup Final 30/6015 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Lynski Dravitski: September 19th Highlights - Rugby

These highlights, filmed by Riley M. from Room One are of the Lynski-Dravitski Shield Challenge game between Auroa Primary School and St Josephs Opunake, which took place on Friday 19th September, at St Josephs.  The shield is contested each year between Auroa and St Josephs.   Auroa were able to win the shield for the first time in 2013 and were looking to defend it for the first time.  Following clear wins in Soccer (12-0) and a convincing win in Netball, the Rugby team was looking for a clean sweep.  Having only lost this season to St Josephs (Hawera), who we play in the finals of the Taranaki Trophy at Yarrows Stadium this Thursday, Auroa was looking for a solid display.   The game in the early stages was dominated by St Josephs who at one time took a twenty point lead.

ST Joes Opunake VS Auroa from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

This video shows the last parts of the second half as Auroa begun to swing control of the game back to themselves. Its our first game of 2014 filmed with different equipment. We are thinking critically about such an exciting game (which ended in a 36-36 draw) and what we could do differently with the filming. Would a tripod have helped? Is it better than when we used an ipad but we couldn't zoom in on the action? What rules would we have for the camera person in future that would help the recording? Riley wasn't expecting to be given the job, circumstances meant it was thrust into his hands, and he filmed the action at St Josephs School, Opunake, on Friday 19th September 2014.

Opunake Basketball Schools 2014 Finals

The Finals Draw for Basketball for 2014 on Tuesday 1st of July is:

• 3:30pm Y5/6 B Final Auroa Heat Vs. Rahotu Rebels
• 4:30pm Y5/6 A Final Auroa Magic Vs. St Joseph Thunder
• 5:30pm Y7/8 B Final Auroa Stormers Vs. OPS Westside Tigers
• 6:30pm Y7/8 A Final Auroa Thunder Vs. St Joseph Falcons

Congratulations on the players from Auroa School who are in the A grade or B grade final.  All games are taking place at the Opunake Events Centre.  Following the Y5/6 and Y7/8 'A' finals there will be a presentation in the restaurant.

Crowley Cup Y5/6 Semi Final Result

Today Auroa Primary School hosted the Semi-Final of the Y5/6 Crowley Cup Rugby Competition.   The game was held in rough conditions and finished ourselves and Matapu Primary School.   Auroa (who are undefeated this season and have won most games by a considerable margin) were in dominate form again taking a 40-0 lead into half time.  In the second half Auroa were able to keep Matapu scoreless.  They now advance to the final, being held at Auroa Primary School next week against St Joseph Opunake.  Footage of that game will be posted online.

[Picture credit: Jacob, Room Two]

Rugby Vs. St Josephs Opunake Y5/6

This film is from the Y5/6 Rugby game between Auroa Primary School and St Josephs Opunake as part of the Y5/6 Crowley Cup competition. It took place at St Joes on Wednesday 28th May. It was a play off for the top two form teams in the competition. Auroa Primary School are in the purple with the orange, St Josephs are in their traditional green. Due to the wind on the day the students who were doing the editing decided to overdub the footage. Produced by Will from Room One. The final score (adjusted) was 51-14 to Auroa who remain undefeated in the competition.

Auroa Primary Vs. St Josephs (Opunake) Y5/6 28/5/14 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School League Highlights Y5/6

This is a the best bits of highlights from the Coastal Y5/6 Rugby League Competition against St Josephs Opunake, Manaia and Opunake Primary Schools held on Wednesday 3rd April 2014 at Opunake. Auroa are in the Dark Blue Uniforms with Orange trim. Filmed by Jack from Room One and edited by Lucas and Jack. Auroa now advance to the next round.
Highlights Y5/6 Rugby League 2014 from Heath Chittenden on Vimeo.