{"id":463783,"date":"2026-06-06T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463783\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:52:13","slug":"kaikorai-hold-off-harbour-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463783\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaikorai hold off Harbour comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaikorai were world-beaters for 60 minutes at Watson Park.<\/p>\n<p>They beat Harbour 45-33.<\/p>\n<p>But they were up 40-0, made a series of changes and forgot how to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>That final quarter will make for a hard watch.<\/p>\n<p>But the game was effectively already won.<\/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\/06\/online_rugby_060626.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Action from today's premier club rugby match between Southern and Zingari at Bathgate Park. Photo...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Action from today&#8217;s premier club rugby match between Southern and Zingari at Bathgate Park. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Their loose forward trio of Gregor Rutledge, Slade McDowall and Lucas Casey dominated the breakdown and prop Philip Taua-Ah Soon had a monster game, while Ben Miller was all class at first five and Mefi Tupou made some strong carries in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Taieri posted a 57-36 win against University at the University Oval to strengthen their hold on pole position.<\/p>\n<p>Southern dispatched Zingari-Richmond 45-24 at Bathgate Park, and Green Island edged Dunedin 24-22 at Kettle Park.<\/p>\n<p>Fulltime scores<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin 22-24\u00a0Green Island<\/p>\n<p>Southern 45-25\u00a0Zingari<\/p>\n<p>University 36-57\u00a0Taieri<\/p>\n<p>Harbour 33-45\u00a0Kaikorai<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaikorai were world-beaters for 60 minutes at Watson Park. They beat Harbour 45-33. But they were up 40-0,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-463783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463783","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=463783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}