{"id":407816,"date":"2026-05-02T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:08:07","slug":"live-super-rugby-pacific-fijian-drua-v-highlanders-in-ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407816\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Super Rugby Pacific &#8211; Fijian Drua v Highlanders in Ba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fijian Drua host the Highlanders in a bottom-half Super Rugby Pacific clash at Four N Stadium in Ba.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides boast the same record &#8212; four wins and six losses &#8212; but the Highlanders&#8217; superior bonus points have them three places ahead on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Drua: 1. Haereiti Hetet 2. Zuriel Togiatama 3. Mesake Doge 4. Isoa Nasilasila 5. Temo Mayanavanua (co-c) 6. Joseva Tamani 7. Kitione Salawa 8. Elia Canakaivata 9. Issak Fines-Leleiwasa 10. Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula 11. Joji Nasova 12. Virimi Vakatawa 13. Tuidraki Samusamuvodre 14. Frank Lomani (co-c) 15. Isikeli Rabitu.<\/p>\n<p>Bench: Kavaia Tagivetaua, Emosi Tuqiri, Peni Ravai, Mesake Vocevoce, Isoa Tuwai, Philip Baselala, Kemu Valetini, Maika Tuitubou.<\/p>\n<p>Highlanders: 1. Ethan de Groot (co-c) 2. Jack Taylor 3. Angus Ta&#8217;avao 4. Oliver Haig 5. Mitch Dunshea 6. Te Kamaka Howden 7. Veveni Lasaqa 8. Nikora Broughton 9. Folau Fakatava 10. Cameron Millar 11. Jona Nareki 12. Timoci Tavatavanawai (co-c) 13. Tanielu Tele&#8217;a 14. Jonah Lowe 15. Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens.<\/p>\n<p>Bench: Soane Vikena, Daniel Lienert-Brown, Saula Ma&#8217;u, Sean Withy, Lucas Casey, Adam Lennox, Taine Robinson, Xavier Tito-Harris.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fijian Drua host the Highlanders in a bottom-half Super Rugby Pacific clash at Four N Stadium in Ba.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":["post-407816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407816","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=407816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}