{"id":293288,"date":"2026-02-20T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:34:09","slug":"hurricanes-v-moana-pasifika-super-rugby-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293288\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika &#8211; Super Rugby Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSWASB_260220HurricanesMoanaP_068_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Hurricanes Brayden Iose and Josh Moorby celebrate a try, Super Rugby Pacific, Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika, Sky Stadium, Wellington. Friday 20 February, 2026&#10;\u00a9 Mandatory credit: Kerry Marshall \/ www.photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nHurricanes Brayden Iose and Josh Moorby celebrate a try during their match against Moana Pasifika.<br \/>\nPhoto: Kerry Marshall \/ www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n<p>After sitting out round one with the bye, the Hurricanes ran rampant against Moana Pasifika in their Super Rugby Pacific opener to secure a 52-10 win, earning a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Josh Moorby scored three out of the home sides five tries in the drubbing.<\/p>\n<p>To add to Moana Pasifika&#8217;s woes, they lost Israel Leota and William Havili to injury, with Havili being stretcher off in the 63rd minute with a head or neck injury.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the match unfolded<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Brayden Iose and Josh Moorby celebrate a try during their match against Moana Pasifika. Photo: Kerry Marshall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-293288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}