{"id":199772,"date":"2025-10-09T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199772\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:05:11","slug":"nrl-2025-pacific-championships-fiji-bati-tui-kamikamica-sunia-turuva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199772\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025, Pacific Championships, Fiji Bati, Tui Kamikamica, Sunia Turuva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm star Tui Kamikamica is set to lead the Fiji Bati at this year&#8217;s Pacific Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The forward is desperate to bury the pain of last week&#8217;s NRL Grand Final defeat as the Bati chase victories over Papua New Guinea and Cook Islands in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wests Tigers winger Sunia Turuva is the vice-captain of a talented side stocked with NRL experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turuva is joined in the squad by Tigers teammate Jahream Bula and North Queensland flyer Semi Valemei.<\/p>\n<p>Bulldogs young gun Jethro Rinakama is in line for his international debut, having been a member of the Fijian squad last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins star Kurt Donoghoe is set to provide physicality up front alongside Kamikamica and Manly youngster Caleb Navale.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji will play Cook Islands on October 18 in Port Moresby the opening game of the tournament before taking on Papua New Guinea in week three of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm star Tui Kamikamica is set to lead the Fiji Bati at this year&#8217;s Pacific Championships.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-199772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}