Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nIt came as Damian McKenzie set up for a drop goal attempt, charged down by Warner Dearns.<\/p>\n
This put everyone back onside as the ball landed in the hands of the number eight, powering his way over the line for a famous win.<\/p>\n
The victory puts the Chiefs top of the ladder and ends the Hurricanes\u2019 five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
This had built this streak on attacking raids and blowout wins, but this was a defensive war between two teams at the top of their game.<\/p>\n
The visitors took their chance early, with winger Josh Moorby finishing off in the corner for an eighth minute try after sustained pressure.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs looked to strike back but were thwarted by a stubborn Hurricanes defence early on. Josh Lord created their best chance of the half when he ran a perfect line to surge through a gap, with the Hurricanes instantly coming up with the turnover.<\/p>\n
They had close to 60% territory in the first half, but only had a Damian McKenzie penalty goal to show for it as the visitors struck right before half-time.<\/p>\n
Strong turnover work from Du\u2019Plessis Kirifi provided the chance for the Hurricanes to attack late, with Peter Lakai crashing over under the posts for a 12-3 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs kept calm and worked their way through to start the half, with Simon Parker\u2019s first of the year coming at a timely moment.<\/p>\n
But the Hurricanes were straight back on the attack as Asafo Aumua delivered a trademark bustling run to power over the line for a seven point lead.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes sought to close out the game before a trademark Chiefs counterattack set up a grandstand finish. The host moves quickly from an errand pass as Leory Carter sprinted over halfway and found replacement Sinkinson to level the scores.<\/p>\n
McKenzie had a chance to win it in regulation time with two minutes to go, with his long range effort well short and to the left.<\/p>\n
But the playmaker turned provider in Super Point, sprinting into the Hurricanes’ half off a Kyren Taumoefolau offload to park them inside the 22.<\/p>\n
While his drop goal attempt was unsuccessful, it set up the chance for Sititi to be the hero in his first game since Round Three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Returning star Wallace Sititi has proven to be the hero for the Chiefs, crossing four minutes into Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,5386,10569,760,85,48013],"class_list":{"0":"post-614856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-hurricanes","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-rugby-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614856","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=614856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}