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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ALLBLACKS.COM<\/p>\n Buller hopped out to a six-point lead in the Pink Batts Heartland Championship when beating West Coast 29-24 in a close game in Westport on Saturday.<\/p>\n Poverty Bay, courtesy of a 17-9 win over Thames Valley moved into second place and is assured of a place in the Meads Cup play-offs with Buller.Horowhenua Kapiti helped their chance of also qualifying by beating South Canterbury 23-11 but faces a tough opponent in the last round when travelling to Gisborne to meet Poverty Bay.South Canterbury and Mid Canterbury are tied on 21 points after Mid Canterbury beat North Otago 28-7 in Ashburton.<\/p>\n The winner of next week’s clash between the neighbours should qualify for the Meads play-offs.Results were:<\/strong><\/p>\n Buller 29<\/strong> (Tai Ratu 2, Scott Neighbours, Peni Naibinivalu, James Lash 3 con, pen) Thames Valley 9<\/strong> (David Harrison 3 pen) Horowhenua Kapiti 23<\/strong> (Ahio Haamea, Lennon Carrington tries; Perry Hayman 2 con, 3 pen) Wanganui 38<\/strong> (Samu Kabunavanua 3, Simon Dibben, Ace Malo, Lasa Ulukuta tries; Dane Whale 4 con) Mid Canterbury 28<\/strong> (Nete Caucau, Richard Catherwood, Logan Bonnington tries; Murray Williams 2 con, 3 pen) East Coast 7<\/strong> (Charlie Harrison try; Kris Palmer con) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ALLBLACKS.COM Buller hopped out to a six-point lead in the Pink Batts Heartland Championship when beating West Coast 29-24 in a close game in Westport on Saturday.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buller-ru","category-heartland-championship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bullerrugby.co.nz\/wp4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWest Coast 24<\/strong> (Rowan O’Gorman 2, Regan Stanton, Andrew Connors; Nathan Smith 2 con)<\/p>\n
\nPoverty Bay 17<\/strong> (Henry Bridge, Seymour Lambet, Moss Doran tries; Clayton Kiwara con). HT: 5-3<\/p>\n
\nSouth Canterbury 11<\/strong> (Erenimo Tau try; Paula Fifita 2 pen). HT7-6<\/p>\n
\nWairarapa Bush 24<\/strong> (Robbie Anderson, Cameron Hayton, Sam Monaghan, Inia Katia tries; Ben Aoina 2 con). HT: 5-33<\/p>\n
\nNorth Otago 7<\/strong> (Siosiua Ngalo try; Ben Palmer con)<\/p>\n
\nKing Country 34<\/strong> (Chanse Ritete-Perham 3, Dean Church 2, Joe Perawiti tries; Whakataki Cunningham 2 con). HT: 17-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"