{"id":498084,"date":"2026-06-27T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498084\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:52:12","slug":"a-day-of-one-sided-encounters-in-final-round-robin-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498084\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of one-sided encounters in final round-robin matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/club_rugby_2_2706262.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"University celebrate during their Division 1 premier club rugby match against Dunedin at the...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>University celebrate during their Division 1 premier club rugby match against Dunedin at the University Oval on Saturday. Photos: Peter Mcintosh.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs are all set.<\/p>\n<p>Competition front-runner Taieri will host Green Island at Peter Johnstone Park.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions, Kaikorai, will play Harbour at Bishopscourt, and Southern will host University at Bathgate Park.<\/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\/06\/club_rugby_3_270626.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Dunedin halfback Tim Hogan passes the ball during the Division 1 premier club rugby match between...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dunedin halfback Tim Hogan passes the ball during the Division 1 premier club rugby match between Universty and Dunedin at the University Oval on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The final round-robin games in the Dunedin division 1 competition produced some very one-sided encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Taieri cruised to a comfortable 45-7 win against Zingari-Richmond at Montecillo Park to secure the Gallaway trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Kaikorai blitzed Green Island 62-10 at Bishopscourt. Lucas Casey ran in three tries and was all over the park.<\/p>\n<p>University crushed Dunedin 55-19 at the University Oval, and Harbour demolished Alhambra-Union 70-12 at Watson Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University celebrate during their Division 1 premier club rugby match against Dunedin at the University Oval on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-498084","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\/498084","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=498084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}