{"id":84098,"date":"2025-10-17T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84098\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:21:08","slug":"otago-v-bay-of-plenty-result-otago-reach-npc-final-with-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84098\/","title":{"rendered":"Otago v Bay of Plenty result: Otago reach NPC final with big win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Otago Dylan Pledger scores during the NPC semifinal win over Bay of Plenty. Photo \/ SmartFrame<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Otago have the chance to end a 27-year title drought after cruising into next weekend\u2019s NPC final with a 41-17 win over Bay of Plenty in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Otago last played in the final in 1998, and will face the winner of tomorrow\u2019s semifinal between Canterbury and Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The hosts<br \/>\n         led 14-12 shortly before halftime but tries on either side of the break put them out to a commanding 28-12 lead over last year\u2019s runners-up.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otago Dylan Pledger scores during the NPC semifinal win over Bay of Plenty. Photo \/ SmartFrame Otago have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9331,64246,64247,74,1561,8834,55275,23436,6788,5904,305,296,111,139,1536,22308,69,1118,9629,1523,1562,19328,12229,213,2563,23366,6027,102],"class_list":["post-84098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chance","tag-27year","tag-64247","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-big","tag-cruising","tag-drought","tag-dunedin","tag-final","tag-have","tag-into","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-npc","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-otago","tag-over","tag-plenty","tag-reach","tag-result","tag-sports","tag-title","tag-weekends","tag-win","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84098","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=84098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}