{"id":689350,"date":"2026-05-23T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689350\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:22:14","slug":"rugby-sungoliath-hold-off-black-rams-to-reach-league-one-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689350\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Sungoliath hold off Black Rams to reach League One semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; Tokyo Sungoliath withstood a second-half comeback from Black Rams Tokyo to advance to the Japan Rugby League One semifinals with a 40-35 victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Having trailed 27-10 at halftime, the Black Rams came back to lead 35-33 before Yukio Morikawa&#8217;s try after the siren sealed the quarterfinal victory for head coach Kosei Ono&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa star Cheslin Kolbe scored the opening try and booted a further 15 points for Sungoliath at Tokyo&#8217;s Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground.<\/p>\n<p>Former All Blacks scrumhalf TJ Perenara and winger Taira Main each scored a brace of tries for head coach Tabai Matson&#8217;s Black Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Sungoliath will face Kobe Steelers, the first-place team from the regular season, in the semifinals in a week&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8211; Tokyo Sungoliath withstood a second-half comeback from Black Rams Tokyo to advance to the Japan Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-689350","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\/689350","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=689350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}