What an ending to a fantastic match. Tudreu intercepts the ball as Hawk's Bay look to score, he runs 50m before kicking up field, he gets to the ball first and toes in forward another 10m before diving on the ball to score a try at the death.
5m out, Manawatu throwing themselves at the tackles.
Less than 2min remaining, Hawk's Bay are on the attack inisde the Manawatu 22m area.
Quick accurate hands results in the ball beating the man. Emery scores near the corner after exploiting an overlap. Manawatu take the lead with a few minutes to go. Te Rure with an important conversion.
Manawatu are awarded a scrum 5m out with 5min remaining in the match. They need to score from this to win the match.
Abbott puts in a beautifully weighted pass to Chase who dots the ball down in the corner for a fantastic team try that started from inside their own half.
End to end stuff, both teams finding gaps but are unable to covert it into points. Berquist putting in a few quality touches in the last few minutes.
Hawk's Bay picking up their game, they have won a number of penalties in the last few minutes, this time for a Manawatu player not rolling away.
Manawatu put in some powerful running in the midfield and gain some valuable ground. Te Rure puts through a grubber which nobody seems to be able to gather, it is toed forward once more before it is finally gathered and scored, however a TMO review results in a scrum awarded to Hawk's Bay after Milner-Skudder lost it forward inches from the tryline.
West performs a cross-kick which is overcooked, they go back 30m for a lineout to Hawk's Bay.