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All Soffe Cup matches were scheduled for South Taranaki on Saturday and the rain stayed away to allow all but one game to be completed.

Hareb Deken Motors Oakura had to fight hard for its 9-7 win over Sandfords Manaia at Manaia . Manaia looks to be on the comeback trail after missing out on a semi-final spot last season.

Although Oakura were without Josh Walden and Leah Fletcher on Saturday, they have gained the valuable services of another rep player, Alesha Ford from Manaia. She was beaten 6/3,6/1 by Manaia's No 1 Nicole Koch. Oakura's women won the rest of the singles, At No 2, Sue Oldfield beat Irene Cruikshank 7/6, 6/1, Becky Bruckner beat Helen Johnston in the No 3 match while Miaana Walden beat Shinae Bailey by the same score. Manaia had Cameron Koch in the No 1 spot and beat John Hardie Boys 4/6,6/2,7/6. Koch did not play last season due to injury and he will be vital to the team's success. Manaia won two other singles matches, No 3 and 4 Michael Gates and Alaister Murdoch beat Len Adamson and Tei Walden respectively. Oakura's No 2 Graham Mitchell had an easy win over Taranaki B rep Jacob Gopperth.

With the scores at 4-4 after the singles, Oakura gained the advantage by winning three out of four doubles. They won both women's matches and the top men's match. The mixed doubles were shared 2-2.

The win puts Oakura in second place on 28 points, five behind leaders Rotokare on 33 while Manaia are in fourth spot on 20 points, 0.5 behind Hooker Pacific Pukekura.

At Matapu, AWE Huatoki and McDonalds Real Estate Matapu fought out a 8-8 draw. It was 4-4 after the singles with Matapu's No1, David White upsetting last season's Taranaki No 1, Jonno Ussher 6/4,6/3 to get his side off to a great start. No 3 Andy Roberts beat Jaden Hareb 6/4,6/1 while in the women's singles, No 1 Jenny White beat 15 year old Hine Wilson (who has transferred from Auckland), 6/3, 6/2. Sarah Kelly beat Elle Fleming in the No 4 match without dropping a game. Huatoki's matches were won by No 2 Amrit Rai over Jason Hurley 6/3,6/3, No 4 Aaron West who beat Reece Furness 6/3,6/1, No 2 Chris Wilson who beat Helen Kelly and Megan O'Donnell who defeated Clare Goldsworthy. Matapu were helped by winning two matches by default when Elle Fleming was injured. They also won the No 2 men's doubles match in three sets, Roberts and Furness defeated Hareb and West, and the no 1 mixed doubles 9/8, Brother and sister David and Jenny White beat Ussher and Wilson and the No 3 mixed doubles. Roberts made it three out of three by teaming up with Goldsworthy to defeat Hareb and O'Donnell. For Huatoki, their doubles wins were from the top combination of Ussher and Rai who defeated White and Hurley and Rai completed a successful day by teaming up with Chris Wilson and defeating Hurley and Helen Kelly.

Hooker Pacific Pukekura had all but a clean sweep over Lockwood Design and Build Okaiawa at Okaiawa, one match was rained off. No 1 Michael Fleming defeated Andrew Powell 6/4,6/2 while Dennis Reid beat Vincent Bayls in three tight sets in the No 2 match. Pukekura's no 1 didn't drop a game against Joanne Gyde but in the doubles Reid and Thorne had to battle to beat Gyde and Beth McLeod in three sets.

Soffe Cup holders, Central Finance Rotokare maintained their lead with a 15-1 over Hawera at Hawera. All but two of the 15 games were comfortable wins with No 2 Chris Popata only dropping two games against Sean Merhtens, Shane Devlin beat Jevan Hayward 6/4,6/0 and Blair Crowley beat Hayden Bennett 6/4,6/2.

Rotokare's top two women Catherine Stevenson and Kelly Toa won their games against Sheri De'ath and Erin Annabell 6/2,6/3 and 6/0,6/0 respectively. It was a different story in the doubles with the Rotokare pair winning in the third set tiebreak. No 4 combination in the mixed doubles, Crowley and Atkins won their match in a tiebreak 9/8. Hawera's only win was the top singles with Neil McCann defeating Ben Pollard in three sets.

Huatoki 8 Matapu 8, Waiwaka 10 Oakura 6, Manaia 14 Okaiawa 2

Waitara 13 Stratford 3, Huatoki 11 Coastal (45) 5, Hawera 9.5 Manaia 6.5

Central Finance Rotokare 33, Hareb Deken Motors Oakura 28, Hooker Pacific Pukekura 20.5, Sandfords Manaia 20

Manaia 16, Waiwaka 12, Huatoki 9, Matapu 9, Oakura 6, Okaiawa 2, Stratford 0