New Zealand Barbarians’ Schools team named for Fiji Schools match

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The New Zealand Barbarians’ Schools team to take on Fiji Schools in their match at Porirua Park in Porirua on Saturday has been named.

The New Zealand Barbarians Schools team is:

	NAME	SCHOOL
1	Mason Kean	Hastings Boys’ High School
2	Tom Hardy	King’s College
3	Sione Asi	Otago Boys’ High School
4	Isaia Walker-Leawere	Gisborne Boys’ High School
5	Paripari Parkinson	St Kentigern College
6	Fin Hoeata	Dilworth School
7	Jahrome Brown	Hamilton Boys’ High School
8	Marino Mikaele-Tu’u	Hastings Boys’ High School
9	Liam Howley	Southland Boys’ High School
10	D’Angelo Leuila	Papatoetoe High School
11	Jarrod Adams	St Patrick’s College Silverstream
12	Alex Nankivell	Christchuch Boys’ High School
13	Tui Samuelu	Christchurch Boys’ High School
14	Losi Filipo	St Patrick’s College Silverstream
15	Shelford Murray	King’s College

RESERVES

	NAME	SCHOOL
16	Samisoni Taukei’aho	St Paul’s Collegiate
17	Antonio Ripata	Auckland Grammar School
18	Sam Tufuga	Rathkeale College
19	Matt Heffernan	Otago Boys’ High School
20	Brendan Bond	Westlake Boys’ High School
21	Lisati Milo-Harris	St Peter’s College
22	Luther Hirini	Feilding High School
23	Daniel Lee	Rosmini College

Changes to the team since their game on Tuesday haveJarrod Adams returning from injury to start on the wing and Shelford Murray moving to fullback.

Feilding High School’s Luther Hirini will be on the reserves bench for New Zealand Schools Barbarians, after Caleb Makene joined the New Zealand Schools team.

New Zealand Barbarians Coach Darren Larsen said the team was particularly strong at both halfback and openside flanker and a couple of tough calls have been made around those positions.

The team was selected based on their performance against Australia when they won 39-21.

“We were thrilled with our win against Australia and the team came together really well. Since Tuesday we’ve been focussing on fine tuning rather than changing or adding too much. We’re confident we’re well prepared to face Fiji, and no doubt they will provide us with a tough challenge on game day.

New Zealand Schools will play Australia Schools following this match.

Match details:
New Zealand Schools Barbarians v Fiji
Saturday, 4 October at 1.10pm
Porirua Park, Porirua

New Zealand Schools v Australia
Saturday, 4 October at 2.50pm
Porirua Park, Porirua