{"id":520486,"date":"2026-07-11T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:20:08","slug":"referee-left-bleeding-after-clash-during-super-rugby-aupiki-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520486\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee left bleeding after clash during Super Rugby Aupiki match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matat\u016b&#8217;s Super Rugby Aupiki clash with the Hurricanes Poua in Timaru was briefly interrupted today after the referee suffered a facial injury in an accidental collision with a player.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during a Matat\u016b lineout, when a player chasing an intentionally overthrown ball accidentally caught referee Erin Doherty in the face with an elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Play was stopped for eight minutes at Fraser Park while Doherty received treatment for a cut above her eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant referee Warwick Lahmert took over after officials swapped communication equipment, while Chloe Sampson remained on the touchline.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes Poua would go on to pip Matat\u016b 33-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matat\u016b&#8217;s Super Rugby Aupiki clash with the Hurricanes Poua in Timaru was briefly interrupted today after the referee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,6327,213],"class_list":["post-520486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520486","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=520486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}