{"id":358,"date":"2022-10-10T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fijiancup.com\/touch\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2022-11-23T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T09:19:01","slug":"outkast-sports-put-on-a-show-in-fiji-tourney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/outkast-sports-put-on-a-show-in-fiji-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Outkast Sports put on a show in Fiji tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By: Shane Hurndell
Shane Hurndell is a sports reporter for Hawke\u2019s Bay Today
shane.hurndell@hbtoday.co.nz
Perfect timing Hawke\u2019s Bay touch star Ashton Robinson-Bartlett!<\/p>

The 22-year-old New Zealand open men\u2019s team middle player is eager to stay in the Touch Blacks side for 2019 World Cup in Malaysia and he enhanced his chances with tournament MVP honours and top tryscorer honours as his Outkast Sports open men\u2019s team won\u00a0The Fijian Cup<\/a>\u00a0Men\u2019s Championship with an unbeaten run in Fiji at the weekend.<\/p>

His Touch Blacks coach Peter McIntyre of Auckland was among the spectators as Robinson-Bartlett scored 23 tries in six games.<\/p>

\u201cAsh might have been a bit greedy but he certainly played well. The fans were continually flocking to him for photos after each game,\u201d his proud uncle and Outkast Sports player-coach Anaru Bartlett said.
\u201cWhile Ash is looking good for re-selection in the New Zealand team Mataeus [Hawks basketballer Marsh] and Jordan [Hastings Boys\u2019 High School 1st XV rugby player Thompson-Dunn] could follow him if they continue playing like they did,\u201d Bartlett said.<\/p>

Robinson-Bartlett played for the Touch Blacks open men\u2019s team in a three-test Transtasman Series on the Sunshine Coast in May and last year played for the Touch Blacks open mixed team in the series. Since the May series Robinson-Bartlett has been to a couple of training camps for the national side.<\/p>

Outkast Sports won the first prize of $7,500, an impressive kava bowl trophy and a $1500 bar tab at the Sheraton Resort where they stayed. Robinson-Bartlett won $1000 for player-of-the-tournament.<\/p>

\u201cWe were blown away with the hospitality. We spent four days at the resort and when we weren\u2019t playing there were plenty of activities like fishing and snorkelling for the team to do,\u201d Bartlett explained.<\/p>

One of two Kiwi teams in the six-team men\u2019s section, Outkast Sports, beat Fijian teams Inside Out 10-4, Taki Mai 12-2, 2 Fresh Nadi 10-2 and Elite Touch of Canterbury by default and drew 7-all with 2 Fresh Suva in round robin play before beating Taki Mai 10-1 in their semifinal and 2 Fresh Suva 12-5 in the final.<\/p>

\u201cElite didn\u2019t have a full contingent of players when they arrived in Fiji and then they were hit with injuries so they defaulted to us. We\u2019re going back again next year and we know it will be tougher because some Aussie teams as well as Peter McIntyre\u2019s Playing Up club from Auckland will be there. We will take our women\u2019s team as well next year,\u201d Bartlett, 37, explained.<\/p>

He was the oldest player in his team and 14-year-old Jaden Murphy was the youngest. This is the second international title the Hawke\u2019s Bay open men\u2019s champions for the past four years have won as three years ago they won the Waitangi Weekend title on the Gold Coast.<\/p>

Two summers ago a mixed team from the club won the open mixed title at the prestigious Whakatane Open tournament which is regarded as the country\u2019s toughest open club tournament.<\/p>

A Marlborough team played in the women\u2019s section of the Fijian tournament and were beaten by a Fiji side in the final.<\/p>

\u201cTouch is still in the development phase in Fiji but it was a well-run tournament with Touch New Zealand referees. Peter [McIntyre] ran several coaching clinics for the Fijian teams and we donated uniforms and balls to the Fijian players,\u201d Bartlett added.<\/p>

The full Outkast Sports team was:
Anaru Bartlett, Ashton Robinson-Bartlett, Mataeus Marsh, Jordan Thompson-Dunn, Gideon Kautai, Kanak Heremia-Bartlett, Elijah Tuavera, Salem Watson, Sam Walton-Sexton, Kaelym Harmer, Jaden Murphy, Jordarn Harmer, Jarome Mareikura, Pohaitere Ross.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outkast Sports put on a show in Fiji tourney By: Shane Hurndell Shane Hurndell is a sports reporter for Hawke\u2019s Bay Today shane.hurndell@hbtoday.co.nz Perfect timing Hawke\u2019s Bay touch star Ashton Robinson-Bartlett! The 22-year-old New Zealand open men\u2019s team middle player is eager to stay in the Touch Blacks side for 2019 World Cup in Malaysia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fijiancup.com\/touch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}