Harbour Seals produced a gritty second-half fightback to beat University 44-36 despite four first-half tries to University hooker Thomas Ellery.
Trailing 30-10 at halftime, the Seals came out a different team in the second half and ran down a tiring University side.
Seals coach Hala Mafi was a pleased man at fulltime.
"I was impressed with the way we came back in the second half," Mafi said.
The Seals scored seven second-half tries to University's one and, through their halves pairing of halfback Johnny Liaina and standoff Mase Makavaha, they played some entertaining league.
It was a real team effort from the Seals who clicked into gear through some nice passing and running from Makavaha.
He orchestrated a try in the 67th minute when he chipped over the top 20m out from the University goal-line and centre Mark Semu scored between the posts after a nice break out and good off-loading by the Seals in their own half.
Makavaha capped off a fine performance when he scored a try himself three minutes later after a strong run down the sideline by second-rower Emmanual Matapo, who fed the ball inside for Makavaha to score in the corner and bring the Seals within two points of University.
Ten minutes, later the Seals had scored two more tries to cap off a fine victory.
Matapo was a handful for the University team all day.
He ran strongly, tackled hard and scored two tries himself.
The first half was dominated by a lightning quick University side.
It played the game at pace and, on the back of a strong forward performance from prop Tom Bywater and lock Arden Roberts, Ellery was tough for the Seals to contain.
His four tries were all from fast darting runs and he showed great ability to step off both feet.
The South Pacific Raiders were too strong for the Kia Toa Tigers, beating them 30-12.
The Raiders scored six tries to three and were able to convert their pressure into points better than the Tigers.
Neither team was able to exert dominance in the first half and the only try came right on the break when Raiders centre Callum Smith broke down the sideline and fed inside to stand-off James Stevenson-Wright.
On the back of some good forward play, especially from second-rower Ben Dickson and prop Rocky Pohutu, Stevenson-Wright was able to run a well-executed game plan and it paid off with a strong second-half performance.
Raiders coach Dave Ready was impressed with his whole team's effort.
"The first half was scratchy but in the second half we stuck to our game plan and it paid off," he said.
For the Tigers, lock Shane Unahi, second-rower Pita Davis and centre Apii Taia had strong games.
