Highlanders
Highlights
Highlanders v. Blues
25 February 2005
Carisbrook, Dunedin,
New Zealand
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Welcome to the first
Highlanders Highlights of the 2005 Super 12 season. I'm
afraid I don't have a very happy beginning to the season to report,
but nevertheless...
The Blues beat the Highlanders
30 to 14.
Here's a scoring summary from AllBlacks.com:
For The Blues:
Tries: Keven Mealamu, David Gibson, Xavier Rush.
Conversions: Luke McAlister (3).
Penalties:
McAlister (3).
For The Highlanders:
Tries: Danny Lee.
Penalties:
Ben Blair (3).
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Super 12 Standings
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | BP1 | BP2 | PTS |
| Waratahs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Brumbies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Blues | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Stormers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Hurricanes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Cats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Bulls | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Crusaders | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sharks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reds | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Highlanders | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chiefs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source:
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Planet Rugby covered
the game on its live scoring site and here's the link if you'd like to
look over their commentary:
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Highlanders Headlines:
Blues Beat Highlanders
(Stuff):
Blues Take High Road in
Dunedin (Planet Rugby):
Blues Crash Highlanders
Party (Scrum.com):
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Next Match
5 March 2005
5:30 p.m. (New Zealand
time)
Highlanders v. Stormers
Invercargill, New
Zealand
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Congratulations to
Highlanders captain, Anton Oliver, for being the first New Zealander to play
100 Super 12 games. Here's a link to the story of Oliver's career at
the AllBlacks.com site and the importance of his 100th Super 12 game:
As a result, he's the
photo of the week:
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Speaking of AllBlacks.com,
they've put up a nice Super 12 page there and a very nice Highlanders team
page where they say they will be adding wallpapers and e-cards, etc. soon.
Here's the link to that page:
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Last but not least, stop
by and check out the website associated with this group, where game
summaries and updates will also be posted:
Email me with feedback,
comments, suggestions, corrections, submissions for next newsletter, etc.
at:
Go Highlanders!!