{"id":330247,"date":"2025-12-05T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:07:10","slug":"raf-win-first-inter-service-rugby-title-at-under-23s-level-for-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330247\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF win first Inter Service rugby title at under-23s level for 19 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RAF have won the Inter Service title at under-23s level for the first time in 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>A 26-17 win over the Army at Cardiff Arms Park was a brilliant win for the Air Force and rubber-stamped their place at the top of the Forces under-23s rugby mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Their smart decision-making and ruthless kicking were trademarks of the RAF style, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/royal-air-force-under-23s-lays-down-gauntlet-commanding-victory-over-royal-navy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who also beat the Navy at Stourbridge last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first half lacked action but both sides went in level at the break thanks to tries from the Army&#8217;s Will Sevodi and RAF speedster Jay Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The second half saw Kieran Jenkins dominate the action with ball and boot. He delivered two well-taken penalties and his brilliant try, alongside one for James Moseley, put the RAF into a comfortable position.<\/p>\n<p>The Army, with their physical, driving nature, pushed the RAF until the end with a couple of tries, but this was the RAF&#8217;s night in Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The RAF have won the Inter Service title at under-23s level for the first time in 19 years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}