{"id":626369,"date":"2026-04-23T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:47:16","slug":"rugby-season-gets-underway-port-macquarie-news-of-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626369\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby season gets underway &#8211; Port Macquarie News Of The Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"765\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SPORT_rugby_AB_PY.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rugby season gets underway\" itemprop=\"image\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>            The Port Macquarie Pirates started their season with wins for both first and second grade men\u2019s sides. Photo: Port Macquarie Pirates. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/portmacquarie.newsofthearea.com.au\/rugby-season-gets-underway\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>THE Mid North Coast Rugby Union Northern Division season kicked off last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Port Macquarie Pirates started their premiership defence with a 19-17 win against the Hastings Valley Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>In second grade, the Pirates were 45-27 winners over the Vikings.<br \/>Coffs Harbour Snappers got their season off to a dominant start, having a 45-7 win against the Kempsey Cannonballs in Kempsey.<\/p>\n<p>The Snappers reserves started their premiership defence with a 24-12 win against the Kempsey Cannonballs in Kempsey.<\/p>\n<p>Coffs Harbour Snappers women started their premiership defence in dominant style with a 50-0 demolition of the Kempsey Cannonballs.<\/p>\n<p>The Mid North Coast Rugby Union Northern Division season has a bye this Anzac Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>By Aiden BURGESS<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; The Port Macquarie Pirates started their season with wins for both first and second grade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-626369","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-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626369","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=626369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}