Otago’s Hayden Parker and Tasman’s Marty Banks finished the regular season in outstanding style with their points scoring in Sunday’s ITM Cup games.
Parker booted Otago to a win over Auckland and moved to second place behind Tony Brown on the points scored for Otago in a season while Banks went one better and broke Andrew Goodman’s season record of 116 points for Tasman and with two possible games left this year he is on 130 points.
Individual points scoring after 10 rounds:
161
Hayden Parker (Otago) 2 tries, 20 con 37 pen
140
Ihaia West (Hawke’s Bay) 5 tries, 20 con, 25 pen
130
Marty Banks (Tasman) 3 tries, 23 con, 23 pen
125
Lima Sopoaga (Wellington) 1 try, 39 con, 20 pen
120
Trent Renata (Waikato) 2 tries, 19 con, 24 pen
119
Willie Ripia (Bay of Plenty) 1 try, 12 con, 30 pen
106
Simon Hickey (Auckland) 2 tries, 18 con, 20 pen
94
Baden Kerr (Counties Manukau) 16 con, 21 pen
86
Tyler Bleyendaal (Canterbury) 1 try, 15 con, 17 pen
Leading try scorers in the ITM Cup:
8
Milford Keresoma (Canterbury)
7
Telusa Veainu (Hawke’s Bay)
6
James Lowe (Tasman), Lolagi Visinia (Auckland)
5
Hadleigh Parkes, George Moala (Auckland), Patrick Osborne, Adam Whitelock (Canterbury), Frank Halai (Counties Manukau), Ihaia West, Zac Guildford (Hawke’s Bay), Jayden Spence, Buxton Popoali’i (Otago), Liam Squire (Tasman), Joe Hill, Ross Filipo (Wellington)