{"id":385130,"date":"2026-04-18T02:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:09:15","slug":"live-pacific-four-rugby-black-ferns-v-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385130\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Pacific Four rugby &#8211; Black Ferns v Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow all the rugby action, as the Black Ferns take on Canada in the Pacific Four series at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ferns will be keen to avenge their World Cup semifinal loss, when the teams last met in September.<\/p>\n<p>A hattrick of tries to winger Mererangi Paul helped propel the Black Ferns to a 48-15 victory in their opening Pacific Four match against USA in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Canada beat Australia 24-0 in the second match, which was delayed for 75 minutes and played in an empty stadium, due to the risk of lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The match was delayed due to weather but is now due to kick off at 1.10pm NZT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQ2S5U_gfxblackferns_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Black Ferns v Canada social media graphic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: Liam Swiggs \/ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the rugby action, as the Black Ferns take on Canada in the Pacific Four series at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-385130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385130","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=385130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}