{"id":590939,"date":"2026-09-05T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590939\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:26:11","slug":"fullback-taine-tuaupiki-saves-warriors-with-hattrick-of-tries-over-sea-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590939\/","title":{"rendered":"Fullback Taine Tuaupiki saves Warriors with hattrick of tries over Sea Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Fullback Taine Tuaupiki &#8211; who wasn&#8217;t originally named to play &#8211; has saved NZ Warriors&#8217; bacon with a hattrick of tries in a desperate 31-30 win over Manly Sea Eagles to keep their NRL minor premiership hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The home side needed a late field goal from Chanel Harris-Tavita to snatch victory from their dogged opponents and now await the result between Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers on Sunday, which will determine the winners of the regular-season crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Off to a slow start, the Warriors trailled 12-4 after 20 minutes, but rattled on the next four tries &#8211; two to Tuaupiki &#8211; to lead 24-12 just after halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Tuaupiki was initially named on the interchange bench as backline cover, but entered the starting line-up, when centre Leka Halasima withdrew with an ankle injury 24 hours out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">See how the action unfolded below: <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/1267928\/fullback-taine-tuaupiki-saves-warriors-with-hattrick-of-tries-over-sea-eagles\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/1267928\/fullback-taine-tuaupiki-saves-warriors-with-hattrick-of-tries-over-sea-eagles\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fullback Taine Tuaupiki &#8211; who wasn&#8217;t originally named to play &#8211; has saved NZ Warriors&#8217; bacon with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,3006],"class_list":["post-590939","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","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590939","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=590939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}