{"id":430325,"date":"2026-05-16T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:50:11","slug":"southern-snatches-victory-in-dramatic-premier-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430325\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern snatches victory in dramatic premier round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round eight of the Dunedin division 1 competition threw up some cliffhangers.<\/p>\n<p>Southern halfback Mackenzie Palmer kicked a drop goal in the last act of the game to clinch a 24-21 win against University at Bathgate Park.<\/p>\n<p>It was a topsy-turvy game, but the home side had the better of the set pieces and fought back from 21-14 down to retain the VG Cavanagh Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Green Island trailed Kaikorai 21-7 at halftime but rallied to win 29-27 at Bishopscourt.<\/p>\n<p>Zingari-Richmond bounced back from a 92-12 drubbing against Taieri last week to beat Alhambra-Union 36-34 in another tense match.<\/p>\n<p>The final game was a blowout win. Taieri dispatched Dunedin 57-21 at Kettle Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round eight of the Dunedin division 1 competition threw up some cliffhangers. Southern halfback Mackenzie Palmer kicked a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-430325","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\/430325","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=430325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}