{"id":445696,"date":"2026-05-26T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:20:08","slug":"first-xv-rugby-hastings-suffer-first-super-8-rugby-loss-to-new-plymouth-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445696\/","title":{"rendered":"First XV rugby: Hastings suffer first Super 8 rugby loss to New Plymouth in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"

But two more converted tries and another soon after the break gave the visitors a 28-14 lead and set the scene for the triumph, and a final score raised with another try at the end.<\/p>\n

Defending champions Palmerston North Boys\u2019 High School had a 71-28 home win over Gisborne Boys\u2019 High School in the only other Super 8 match at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Napier Boys\u2019 High School open their campaign against Gisborne Boys\u2019 on June 6, when Hastings Boys\u2019 travel to play Palmerston North Boys\u2019.<\/p>\n

The big annual game between the two Hawke\u2019s Bay schools is at Hastings Boys\u2019 High School on June 13, with Hastings having 12 months ago had their biggest win in the match in eight years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Central North Island (CNI) championship matches, Lindisfarne College had a resounding 52-3 away win over Matamata College.<\/p>\n

Lindisfarne led 35-3 at halftime, including two tries to lock Harry Reed, and eventually scored eight tries, of which six were converted by second five-eighths T.K. Taylor.<\/p>\n

It was Lindisfarne\u2019s first win in the 2026 CNI, after narrow losses to St Paul\u2019s Collegiate (Hamilton) and Wesley College (Pukekohe), and they play Whanganui Collegiate in Hastings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

St John\u2019s College continued without a win in the competition this season, beaten 64-19 by St Peter\u2019s Cambridge in Hastings on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Te Aute College were beaten 20-15 by Hato P\u0101ora in a traditional schools match at Te Aute on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, with 53 years in the news industry, from Masterton but based in Napier for 39 years consecutively since starting a second stint at the Daily Telegraph, Napier, in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But two more converted tries and another soon after the break gave the visitors a 28-14 lead and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,227359,1848,2245,1888,5194,2959,3012,78,2225,117,111,139,69,49267,6327,1534,4062,48656,4739,213,49962,31145,313,2563,61,102,27982,227358,1530],"class_list":["post-445696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-227359","tag-boys","tag-early","tag-first","tag-hastings","tag-high","tag-hopes","tag-in","tag-loss","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plymouth","tag-rugby","tag-saturday","tag-school","tag-setback","tag-six","tag-sports","tag-suffer","tag-suffered","tag-super","tag-title","tag-to","tag-with","tag-xv","tag-xvs","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445696","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=445696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}