{"id":347371,"date":"2025-12-14T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:31:09","slug":"netherlands-women-win-final-international-of-year-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347371\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands\u2019 women win final international of year \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/netherlands-women-win-final-international-of-year\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Netherlands\u2019 women win final international of year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Netherlands-v-Greece-2025-675x360.jpeg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN the final international match of 2025, NETHERLANDS\u2019 women ran out 34-0 winners over GREECE in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Nicole Kennedy scored an 18-minute hat-trick during a dominant second half, after leading by only eight at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Their other tries were scored by Hiske Blom (two), Monischa Hiermons and Sydney Kalf, with Kaylee Geerlings kicking three conversions.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch coach Matt Rigby said: \u201cI\u2019m really happy with the girls\u2019 work ethic and commitment towards what we\u2019re building here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough first half, but they really shone through in the second, taking control of the game and fully deserving the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted with the clean sheet as well \u2013 the defensive performance was exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greece coach Nikolas Stephanou said: \u201cI\u2019m happy that even within the match we could see the girls grow and adjust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next plans are to carry on our progress and increase the number of 13-a-side games we have back home in our domestic programme.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN the final international match of 2025, NETHERLANDS\u2019 women ran out 34-0 winners over GREECE in Rotterdam. Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-347371","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\/347371","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=347371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}