{"id":858023,"date":"2026-08-17T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:48:09","slug":"first-xv-rugby-three-hawkes-bay-schools-in-rugby-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858023\/","title":{"rendered":"First XV rugby: Three Hawke\u2019s Bay schools in rugby semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Semi-finals will also be played on Saturday in the Blues and Chiefs regions in the North Island, as will the Southern Region final, deciding the first team for the Top 4 playoffs on September 4-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Lindisfarne\u2019s Second XV won the Hawke\u2019s Bay schools\u2019 Division 1 title on Saturday with a 50-10 win over defending champions Te Aute College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier since 1987, when he started a second term with the Daily Telegraph. He has had more than four decades covering news and sports events and issues in the region since starting as a cadet reporter at the Central Hawke\u2019s Bay Press in Waipukurau in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semi-finals will also be played on Saturday in the Blues and Chiefs regions in the North Island, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[32465,64,63,9826,65748,13057,9492,10569,4717,621,1919,16309,3173,13970,760,20637,4211,9738,85,13807,25893],"class_list":["post-858023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-month","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bay","tag-bays","tag-first","tag-hawkes","tag-hurricanes","tag-in","tag-national","tag-next","tag-playoffs","tag-race","tag-region","tag-rugby","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-semifinals","tag-sports","tag-three","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858023","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=858023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}