{"id":404437,"date":"2026-04-30T05:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:21:10","slug":"first-xv-rugby-feilding-and-rotorua-remain-unbeaten-at-sanix-world-rugby-youth-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404437\/","title":{"rendered":"First XV rugby: Feilding and Rotorua remain unbeaten at Sanix World Rugby Youth Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feilding High School winger Vetaia Kuruyabaki (left) after scoring the first of his tries.<\/p>\n

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Rotorua Boys\u2019 High School and Feilding High School have retained their unbeaten records at the 2026 Sanix World Rugby Youth Tournament in Japan after second-round matches overnight.<\/p>\n

\n Feilding High made it two wins from two with a meritorious 17-14 win over recently crowned Japanese champions Higashi Fukuoka High School, while
\n Rotorua grafted to a 12-12 draw against a resilient Saga Technical High School team.\n <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in girls sevens, Manawat\u016b\u2019s Manukura School ran riot with a 29-0 win over Canada\u2019s Queen Margaret\u2019s School, a result which keeps them in the running for fifth place.<\/p>\n

Feilding\u2019s contest against Higashi Fukuoka was the feature match of the day at the Global Arena in Fukuoka and a big test for \u201cThe Aggies\u201d.<\/p>\n

But they were inspired by hearing a waiata from the supporting Manukura girls sevens reverberating around the venue, almost drowning out the home Higashi Fukuoka High cheer squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 30 Apr, 2026 12:27 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,74,95,1975,1848,194775,1888,305,2959,1759,13085,111,139,69,6507,9090,13120,122686,1327,6327,194776,4062,186780,213,165,16559,8144,377,27982,1079],"class_list":["post-404437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-after","tag-and","tag-at","tag-boys","tag-feilding","tag-first","tag-have","tag-high","tag-japan","tag-matches","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-records","tag-remain","tag-retained","tag-rotorua","tag-rugby","tag-sanix","tag-school","tag-secondround","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-tournament","tag-unbeaten","tag-world","tag-xv","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404437","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=404437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}