{"id":633568,"date":"2026-10-17T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633568\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:00:10","slug":"late-teba-try-secures-19-19-draw-with-australia-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633568\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Teba try secures 19-19 draw with Australia 7s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National side have secured a 19-all draw with Australia after Iowane Teba scored in the dying seconds of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Australia drew first blood, however they failed to convert it to lead 5-0 in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji quickly equalised with an unconverted try of their own before Tira Patterson scored in the corner to extend their lead.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji led 12-5 at half time.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Longbottom marshalled his troops in the second half enabling them to score two consecutive tries.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji were able to contest Australia&#8217;s scrum and were rewarded with a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>A quick tap and a dummy from Teba left the Australian defence in sixes and sevens, for him to easily stroll through and dot down under the sticks locking the scores at 19-all after an easy conversion.<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s games Fiji won the first 10-0 before going down to Australia 26-14 in their second match.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s game is also a curtain raiser for the Bledisloe Cup between the Wallabies and All Blacks at 4.45pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National side have secured a 19-all draw with Australia after Iowane Teba scored in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,310481,213],"class_list":["post-633568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rugby-rugby-7s","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633568","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=633568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}