{"id":565247,"date":"2026-03-26T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:34:16","slug":"rugby-league-is-almost-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565247\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League Is Almost Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260314league1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-370643 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260314league1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\"  \/><\/a>Patterson Braithwaite dives to score for the Eagles against Dalby at Fred Kassulke Oval<\/p>\n<p>March 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett Eagles U16s put in a strong performance against Dalby at the Nanango Stags\u2019 recent big day of pre-season rugby league.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles led 22-4 at half-time before pulling away to a 38-4 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Tries were scored by Dallas Cooper (3), Jed Ninness, Patterson Braithwaite, Robbie Ashcroft and James Meagher while Tyler Fuller-Sandys kicked five conversions.<\/p>\n<p>In the main game, the Nanango Stags A Graders suffered a narrow loss to the Kilcoy Yowies, 30\u201328.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The Nanango Stags will be hosting a fundraising golf day for the club on Saturday (March 28).<\/p>\n<p>The two-person 18-hole ambrose at the Nanango Golf Club will begin with a shotgun start at 9:00am. Cost is $30 for adults or $15 for juniors (including a free hamburger).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be prizes and raffles, and players, supporters and all community members are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (March 31), the Stags will be holding their annual community Easter Egg hunt at Fred Kassulke Oval.<\/p>\n<p>The fun and games will get under way at 4:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a sausage sizzle and drinks available to buy.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett Rugby League has confirmed will there will be an Under 15s Eagles team competing in the Toowoomba Junior Rugby League competition this year.<\/p>\n<p>They will join South Burnett Under 16 and Under 15\/16 Development Cup teams in the Toowoomba JRL\u00a0 competition, although no draw has yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett draw is also in the final stages of preparation; the senior season is due to kick off on April 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260314league2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-370644 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260314league2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\"  \/><\/a>Dallas Cooper scored three tries for the South Burnett Eagles Under 16s in their recent pre-season game against Dalby<\/p>\n<p class=\"posttags\">\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/tag\/rugby-league\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patterson Braithwaite dives to score for the Eagles against Dalby at Fred Kassulke Oval March 26, 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-565247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565247","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=565247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}