{"id":408424,"date":"2026-05-02T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:45:16","slug":"front-runners-emerge-in-premier-club-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408424\/","title":{"rendered":"Front-runners emerge in premier club competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taieri have quietly emerged as one of the front-runners in division 1 of the Dunedin club rugby competition.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rugby_webb_3_020426.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Taieri halfback Jak Morton fires off a pass during a division 1 club rugby match against Harbour...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Taieri halfback Jak Morton fires off a pass during a division 1 club rugby match against Harbour at Forsyth Barr Stadium last month. FILE PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH<\/p>\n<p>They recorded a comfortable 40-19 win against Southern at Peter Johnstone Park this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Josh Whaanga had a standout game. He scored a couple of tries and helped set up his older brother, Matt Whaanga.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rugby_1_020526.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Green Island took on University in the Dunedin premier club rugby competition at Logan Park on...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Green Island took on University in the Dunedin premier club rugby competition at Logan Park on Saturday. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH<\/p>\n<p>But University is the only unbeaten team in the competition. They beat Green Island 40-29 in a top-of-the-table match at Logan Park<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Kaikorai ran in 10 tries to dispatch Harbour 64-22 at Bishopscourt, and Dunedin eased to a 43-17 win against Zingari-Richmond at Montecillo Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taieri have quietly emerged as one of the front-runners in division 1 of the Dunedin club rugby competition.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-408424","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\/408424","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=408424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}