{"id":872158,"date":"2026-08-29T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872158\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:30:13","slug":"epic-comeback-sends-church-college-u15-boys-into-basketball-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872158\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic comeback sends Church College U15 boys into basketball final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church College Fiji Under-15 boys made an epic comeback to clinch their finals spot in the 2026 Vodafone Fiji Secondary Schools Basketball Championship when they defeated Marist Brothers High School 27-17.<\/p>\n<p>Marist led 11-9 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>A strong comeback led by Mausio Taliu rallied the Tamavua side as they went full-court press and converted Marist mistakes into points to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>In the other Under 15 semifinal,\u00a0Swami Veikananda College edged International School Suva 22-20.<\/p>\n<p>In other games played this morning, the Yat Sen Secondary Under 17 boys side are through to the finals this afternoon after edging Suva Grammar School 25-23.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls Under 17 quarterfinals this morning, Grammar are through to the semifinals after beating Gospel High School 25-21, while Swami Veikananda College edged Nadi neighbour Fiji Agape Mission School 24-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Church College Fiji Under-15 boys made an epic comeback to clinch their finals spot in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,440687,85],"class_list":["post-872158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-photo","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872158","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=872158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}