{"id":493297,"date":"2026-02-20T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:10:08","slug":"hurricanes-hammer-moana-pasifika-52-10-in-super-rugby-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493297\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes hammer Moana Pasifika 52-10 in Super Rugby opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting out Round One with a bye, the Hurricanes ran rampant against Moana Pasifika in their Super Rugby Pacific opener to secure a 52-10 win and earn a bonus point.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes took a 24-5 lead into the break.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Josh Moorby scored three of the home side\u2019s five tries in the dominant win.<\/p>\n<p>To add to Moana Pasifika\u2019s woes, they lost Israel Leota and William Havili to injury, with Havili being stretchered off in the 63rd minute with a head or neck injury.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, the Highlanders will meet the Chiefs at 6.05pm tonight. The Force will face the Blues at 8.35pm tonight, while the Crusaders play the Brumbies at 2.35pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Stuff.co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sitting out Round One with a bye, the Hurricanes ran rampant against Moana Pasifika in their Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,29898],"class_list":["post-493297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493297","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=493297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}