Under 20 Finals
The Under 20 Finals will be the first
to contest the medals at the 2012 Panasonic Pan Pacific Youth Festival today.
The men’s final will see Waitakere take on the international combined side of
FRANZ - comprising of players from France , Australia and New Zealand- in a bid
to be the third Waitakere team to take a Gold medal at this level. The Under 14
boys in 2004 and the Under 16 Boys in 1998 preceded them to the podium. Marist
Auckland and North Harbour will battle it out for the bronze.
Marist and North Harbour (defending
champions) take to the pool in the U20 women’s final with the NZ Under 18
side battling it out for the women’s bronze with Australia Gold, after today’s
semi finals, Harbour City and Canberra were eliminated.
Chris Hayward
NZWP
