{"id":58128,"date":"2025-08-10T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58128\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:34:07","slug":"watch-a-38-year-drought-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58128\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH &#8211; A 38 Year Drought Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drought is over. The wait is done. The roar is deafening. TRINITY COLLEGE ARE THE DIALOG SCHOOLS RUGBY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2025!<\/p>\n<p>After 38 long years, the Lions have reclaimed their throne! Led by the fearless captain, Usmaan Shafraz, the team played with heart, soul, and a fire that could not be extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to the season\u2019s Most Valuable Player, the sensational Nisith Kumarasinghe, who was a force of nature all season long. And to the clutch kicker, Shan Althaf, whose boot worked pure magic when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a trophy. This is history. A victory for every Lion, past and present, who kept the faith. The League title returns to Kandy!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drought is over. The wait is done. The roar is deafening. TRINITY COLLEGE ARE THE DIALOG SCHOOLS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,34906,47645,760,85,47646,47647,47648],"class_list":["post-58128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-champions","tag-dialog-schools-rugby-league-2025","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-srilanka-sports","tag-thepapare","tag-trinity-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58128","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=58128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}