Harlequins claim Pirates Super 10s

RUGBY UNION BY VELERIE BULUMARIS HORNIBROOK sponsored Harlequins are the champions of the 2025 Irok Pirates rugby union club Super 10s tournament. Harlies road to the grand final saw them defeating Pirates Red in the semifinal before facing off with Defence who had also defeated Royals to reach the final. Both teams (Harlies and Defence) came out firing in the opening minutes of play but towards the end, Harlies were too good to hold off Defence for a 10-5 fulltime score.

The earlier saw Harlequins women’s team winning the women’s grand final by defeating Unitech Reds, 7-0. In the Under 20 division, it was a arm wrestle between Unitech Reds and East Taraka Vikings. Reds won, 2-0.



Morobe Rugby Union General Manager Greg Colman said the development team was created as part of the clubs ‘pilot project as well in the Lae Ward 2 area, “We purposely picked Bumbu because that area has high crime reports and our aim is to help decrease such activities in our communities through rugby union,” Colman said. He said despite the outcome, the competition was purposely to test out Pirates Club plans for further growth and this tournament has proven that, thus it’ll be an annual event for the club.’.