| JAPAN 59 | V | HONG KONG 6 | |||||
| COMPETITION: Asia Five Nations | DATE: 2 May 2009 | Updated 02.08.2009 | |||||
| VENUE: Hong Kong Football Club, Hong Kong | SPECTATORS: 3,129 | ||||||
| REFEREE: Mohamed Azar (Singapore) | HALFTIME: 26-6 | Home Page | |||||
| SCORERS: | SCORERS: | ||||||
| TRIES: Hatakeyama (2), Tarrant, Kawamata, Nakamura, Kikutani, | TRIES: | ||||||
| Ono, Onozawa, Tanaka | |||||||
| CONVERSIONS: Nicholas (7) | CONVERSIONS: | ||||||
| PENALTY GOALS: | PENALTY GOALS: Pannell (2) | ||||||
| DROPPED GOALS: | DROPPED GOALS: | ||||||
| 15 | Jack Tarrant (22) | Mitsubishi Sagamihara | 15 | Michael McKee (22) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 14 | Hiroki Yoshida | Toshiba | 14 | Sebastian Perkins (21) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 13 | Koji Taira | Suntory | 13 | Rowan Varty | DEA Tigers RFC | ||
| 12 | Ryan Nicholas | Suntory | 12 | Simon Hempel | Hong Kong Cricket Club | ||
| 11 | Hirotoki Onozawa | Suntory | 11 | Simon Smith | Hong Kong Cricket Club | ||
| 10 | Tatsuhiko Otao | Yamaha | 10 | Kenzo Pannell | Univ. of Canterbury RFC, NZ | ||
| 9 | Fumaiki Tanaka | Sanyo | 9 | Jeff Wong Chun Kui (20) | Kowloon RFC | ||
| 8 | Takashi Kikutani (Capt.) | Toyota Motor | 8 | Simon Leung (19) | Hong Kong Cricket Club | ||
| 7 | Yoshitaka Nakayama | Toyota Motor | 7 | Kwok Ka Chun | Kowloon RFC | ||
| 6 | Michael Leitch | Tokai University | 6 | Nigel Clarke | DEA Tigers RFC | ||
| 5 | Yuji Kitagawa | Kanto Gakuin University | 5 | Nicholas Hurrell | DEA Tigers RFC | ||
| 4 | Hitoshi Ono | Toshiba | 4 | Ivan Zenovic (18) | DEA Tigers RFC | ||
| 3 | Kensuke Hatakeyama (17) | Suntory | 3 | Nigel Hobler (17) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 2 | Tateo Kanai (16) | Suntory | 2 | John Abel (16) | DEA Tigers RFC | ||
| 1 | Naoki Kawamata | Sanyo | 1 | Peter Spizziri | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 16 | Yoshimitsu Yasue (2) | IBM/Kobe | 16 | Alexander Ng Wai Shing (2) | Hong Kong Valley RFC | ||
| 17 | Hiroshi Yamashita (3) | Kobe Steel | 17 | Grapes Lai Tsz Leung (3) | Kowloon RFC | ||
| 18 | Luke Thompson | Kintetsu | 18 | Angus Washington (4) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 19 | Phillip O’Reilly | Sanyo | 19 | Kristopher Marin (8) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| 20 | Tomoki Yoshida | Toshiba | 20 | Timothy Alexander (9) | Hong Kong Valley RFC | ||
| 21 | Shaun Webb | World Coca Cola | 21 | Edmund Rolston (14) | Hong Kong Valley RFC | ||
| 22 | Ayumu Goromaru (15) | Yamaha | 22 | Adam Raby (15) | Hong Kong Football Club | ||
| HEAD COACH: John Kirwan | HEAD COACH: Dair Rees | ||||||
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| MATCH NOTES For Japan, Nakayama and Yasue were making their test debuts. Yuji Kitagawa played his only previous test for Japan against Korea in April 2007. Kawamata,Tanaka and Nakamura scored their first tries for Japan. Sources Ian McDonnell's 'Rugby in Japan' newsletter at www.rugbyinternational.net. http://www.hkrugby.com/hkrugby/news/news-room.cfm?news_uuid=F633B39C-FF4D-43F8-AA36-1F0027B320EA |
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