Canterbury have come out on top against Waikato, winning 36-14 in their NPC clash in Hamilton on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
It was a tight first half with Canterbury holding a 12-7 edge at the break. They should have had more, given a 73 percent territory stat in their favour, but the Waikato defence was staunch.<\/p>\n
The two sides swapped tries early in the second half, and Canterbury led 19-14 for a long spell, before Andrew Knewstubb kicked a penalty for Canterbury in the<\/p>\n
Three minutes later, No. 8 Finn McLeod, who scored his first NPC try in the first half, got another – and any slim chance that Waikato might get back was killed off when Knewstubb sprinted away from the home side and converted his own try.<\/p>\n
In other matches on Saturday, Manawat\u016b beat Bay of Plenty 29-12, and Tasman beat Wellington 42-28. On Friday night, Hawke’s Bay beat Otago 34-24.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s matches are Counties Manukau versus Southland, and North Harbour taking on Northland.<\/p>\n
See how tonight’s match unfolded below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury have come out on top against Waikato, winning 36-14 in their NPC clash in Hamilton on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-591253","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\/591253","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=591253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}