{"id":84112,"date":"2025-10-17T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:29:08","slug":"npc-semifinal-otago-v-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84112\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC semifinal: Otago v Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZDHGR_7c910de5861e399f1115d2a413d299d8_nzrbcrzWh807_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Sam Gilbert celebrates with Dylan Pledger.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSam Gilbert celebrates with Dylan Pledger.<br \/>\nPhoto: ActionPress\n<\/p>\n<p>Otago have booked their ticket to the NPC rugby final after dominating Bay of Plenty 41-17 in the first semifinal in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Otago&#8217;s first NPC final since 1998. They will meet the winner of tomorrow&#8217;s semifinal between Canterbury and Hawke&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Otago scored three tries to two in the first half to lead 21-12 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The home side added another two tries in the second half before Bay of Plenty managed to cross the line again late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Try scorer Finn Hurley had to leave the field with an injury in the last few minutes, which will be a concern for Otago ahead of the final.<\/p>\n<p>Read how the game unfolded here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Gilbert celebrates with Dylan Pledger. Photo: ActionPress Otago have booked their ticket to the NPC rugby final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-84112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112","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=84112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}