{"id":397965,"date":"2026-04-26T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:36:08","slug":"navua-goes-down-in-labasa-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397965\/","title":{"rendered":"Navua goes down in Labasa \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-13.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Labasa FC delivered a dominant performance this afternoon, defeating Navua FC 5\u20132 at Subrail Park in the Extra Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Babasiga Lions made an explosive start, opening the scoring within the first three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>They added another before halftime to take a 2\u20131 lead into the break, after Jared Rongosulia pulled one back for Navua in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Labasa stepped up the intensity in the second half, scoring three more goals to seal the convincing win.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Navua managed a late consolation through Usaia Tilivarua, but it was not enough to challenge Labasa\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Labasa coach Alvin Chand acknowledged the result and says the team will look to build on the performance in upcoming matches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ba takes on Lautoka tomorrow at Churchill Park in the Extra Premier League at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Other games tomorrow see Nasinu and Nadroga battle at the Uprising Sports ground at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be a double header at Nausori\u2019s Ratu Cakobau Park starting at 12pm with Tailevu Naitasiri playing Suva before Rewa meets Nadi.<\/p>\n<p>Peceli\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labasa FC delivered a dominant performance this afternoon, defeating Navua FC 5\u20132 at Subrail Park in the Extra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-397965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397965","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=397965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}