{"id":571741,"date":"2026-08-17T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:58:11","slug":"first-xv-rugby-three-hawkes-bay-schools-in-rugby-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571741\/","title":{"rendered":"First XV rugby: Three Hawke\u2019s Bay schools in rugby semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Semi-finals will also be played on Saturday in the Blues and Chiefs regions in the North Island, as will the Southern Region final, deciding the first team for the Top 4 playoffs on September 4-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Lindisfarne\u2019s Second XV won the Hawke\u2019s Bay schools\u2019 Division 1 title on Saturday with a 50-10 win over defending champions Te Aute College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier since 1987, when he started a second term with the Daily Telegraph. He has had more than four decades covering news and sports events and issues in the region since starting as a cadet reporter at the Central Hawke\u2019s Bay Press in Waipukurau in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semi-finals will also be played on Saturday in the Blues and Chiefs regions in the North Island, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1561,7793,1888,1976,49155,78,4486,3556,111,139,1536,69,110707,7798,381,6327,4062,6649,21231,213,1529,27982],"class_list":["post-571741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bay","tag-bays","tag-first","tag-hawkes","tag-hurricanes","tag-in","tag-month","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-playoffs","tag-race","tag-region","tag-rugby","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-semifinals","tag-sports","tag-three","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571741","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=571741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}