{"id":1867,"date":"2014-10-13T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T21:51:56","slug":"pink-batts-heartland-championship-semifinals-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/2014\/10\/13\/pink-batts-heartland-championship-semifinals-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Batts Heartland Championship semifinals confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedefinedRugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow @RedefinedRugby<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pink Batts Heartland Championship semifinals confirmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The contenders for this year\u2019s Meads Cup and Lochore Cup have been confirmed following the last round of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buller retained their perfect season beating Waiararapa Bust 49-36 to claim top of the competition leader board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mid Canterbury edged out neighbours South Canterbury to claim a berth in the Meads Cup semifinal next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mid Canterbury and Horowhenua finished third equal on the points table, and with the teams not meeting this season, the tie breaker came down to points differential giving the South Islanders the edge (+119) over the North Islanders (+48)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same tie break protocol was used to wedge apart Wanganui and Thames Valley who were deadlocked on 17 points for the fourth ranked Lochore Cup semifinal spot.\u00a0 The two teams have not played each other this season, so again the points differential made the difference \u2013 this time only by a slither as Wanganui (+9) edged out Thames Valley (+4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The semifinal fixtures (venues and kick-off times to be confirmed) with the hosting team listed first, have been confirmed as below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 18 October 2014 &#8211; Kick Off times all games 2:30pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEADS CUP<\/strong><br \/>\nBuller v Horowhenua Kapiti &#8211; Westport<br \/>\nPoverty Bay v Mid Canterbury &#8211; Gisborne<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOCHORE CUP<\/strong><br \/>\nKing Country v Wanganui &#8211; Te Kuiti<br \/>\nSouth Canterbury v North Otago &#8211; Timaru<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Final &#8220;Official&#8221; Table was :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/2014\/10\/13\/pink-batts-heartland-championship-semifinals-confirmed\/hladtable8za8e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?fit=473%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"473,503\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hladtable8za8e\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?fit=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?fit=473%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?resize=473%2C503&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"hladtable8za8e\" width=\"473\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?w=473&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hladtable8za8e.jpg?resize=141%2C150&amp;ssl=1 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RugbyRedefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rugbyredefined.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/fb_follow.jpg?w=196&#038;h=117&#038;fit=196%2C117&#038;resize=196%2C117\" alt=\"fb_follow\" width=\"196\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17721 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rugbyredefined.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rhladrr.jpg?w=385&#038;h=88&#038;fit=385%2C88&#038;resize=385%2C88\" alt=\"rhladrr\" width=\"385\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow @RedefinedRugby Pink Batts Heartland Championship semifinals confirmed The contenders for this year\u2019s Meads Cup and Lochore Cup have been confirmed following the last round of the regular season. Buller retained their perfect season beating Waiararapa Bust 49-36 to claim top of the competition leader board. Mid Canterbury edged out neighbours South Canterbury to claim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heartland-championship","category-rugbyheartland-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0aFinals.jpg?fit=1024%2C356&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wlzH-u7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3124,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/2015\/10\/11\/pink-batts-heartland-championship-2015-semifinals-confirmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1867,"position":0},"title":"Pink Batts Heartland Championship 2015 semifinals confirmed","author":"admin_hland","date":"October 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Follow @RedefinedRugby The teams to play in the Pink Batts Heartland Championship semifinals next weekend (17 October) have been confirmed following the last round of round robin on Saturday. The semifinal fixtures \u2013 all of which will take place next Saturday 17 October - are: Meads Cup semifinal 1: South\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Heartland Championship&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Heartland Championship","link":"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/category\/heartland-championship\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sfs171015f1.jpg?fit=850%2C316&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sfs171015f1.jpg?fit=850%2C316&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sfs171015f1.jpg?fit=850%2C316&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sfs171015f1.jpg?fit=850%2C316&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyheartland.co.nz\/wp\/2014\/04\/03\/2014-pink-batts-heartland-championship-has-been-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":1867,"position":1},"title":"2014 Pink Batts Heartland Championship has been Released","author":"admin_hland","date":"April 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The confirmed 2014 draw for the Pink Batts Heartland Championship has been released by New Zealand Rugby today. King Country and Wairarapa Bush get the season underway at Taupo\u2019s Owen Delaney Park in Week 1 on 23 August 2014. 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New Zealand Rugby has today released the finalised draw, which promises another rousing season of heartland provincial rugby. 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