{"id":599117,"date":"2026-09-13T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:38:10","slug":"ba-crowned-bog-champions-after-8-years-edging-rewa-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599117\/","title":{"rendered":"Ba crowned BOG champions after 8 years, edging Rewa 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Dayal\u2019s Steel Ba have been crowned the Extra Battle of the Giants champions after 8 years, edging Stratum\/PPCL Rewa 2-1 in the final at 4R Stadium, Govind Park, Ba.<\/p>\n<p> Former Ba captain Praneel Naidu was among the scorers for the Men in Black, while Penisoni Tirau, a former Coca-Cola Games long jump gold medallist, also found the back of the net for Ba.<\/p>\n<p>Naidu was also named the Player of the Match.<\/p>\n<p> Rewa fought back in the second half when substitute Merrill Nand scored to give the Delta side hope, despite being down to 10 players.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffBa has been awarded $17,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ba\u2019s third major title of the year, following their Extra Premier League and BiC Fiji FACT victories.<\/p>\n<p> The final whistle sparked wild celebrations among the Ba players and supporters, with the packed crowd erupting as the hosts were crowned champions.<\/p>\n<p> A total of 9,769 people came out to witness the final.<\/p>\n<p> All teams will now turn their focus to the Inter-District Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosts Dayal\u2019s Steel Ba have been crowned the Extra Battle of the Giants champions after 8 years, edging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[295354,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-599117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-battle-of-the-giants-2026-photo-video","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599117","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=599117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}