{"id":15248,"date":"2025-10-08T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15248"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:23:00","slug":"ba-edges-navua-2-1-in-their-first-idc-2025-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15248","title":{"rendered":"Ba edges Navua 2-1 in their first IDC 2025 match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"news_reader\" class=\"news_reader\">\n<p>Ba opened their 2025 FMF Inter-District Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Navua in the final match of day one at the 4R Stadium in Govind Park, Ba.<\/p>\n<p>The Group B encounter saw both teams locked in a goalless first half.<\/p>\n<p>Ba came out stronger in the second half, with Vilitati Kautoga and Etonia Dogalau scoring a goal each giving the Men in Black a 2-nil advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Navua&#8217;s Simione Domoni was shown a red card, reducing his side to ten men, however, they refused to go down quietly and Peniame Drova scored a goal for them.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their attempts, Navua couldn\u2019t find an equaliser, as Ba held on to claim a hard-fought 2-1 victory in front of their home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>In other results, Rewa thrashed Nadroga 6\u2013nil, defending champions Labasa got off to a solid start by defeating Nadi 2\u2013nil, while Suva and Lautoka settled for a 1\u2013all draw.<\/p>\n<p>In the senior division, the match between Lami and Bua ended in a 3-all draw while Rakiraki defeated Dreketi 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In tomorrow&#8217;s matches, Nadi will face Suva at 2pm, Rewa will face Navua at 4pm, Labasa will take on Lautoka at 6pm while Ba will take on Nadroga at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>fiji village<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ba opened their 2025 FMF Inter-District Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Navua in the final match of day one at the 4R Stadium in Govind Park, Ba. The Group B encounter saw both teams locked in a goalless first half. Ba came out stronger in the second half, with Vilitati Kautoga and Etonia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15250,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions\/15250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}