Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nWales remained bottom of the standings, although they picked up a bonus point and there is a chance they might avoid the wooden spoon if England lose heavily to France in the last game of the tournament in Paris later on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Aaron Wainwright scored Wales’ opening two \u200ctries in the \u200cfirst half, and \u2060skipper Dewi Lake added another for a 21-0 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
Dan Edwards, who kicked over \u200bfour conversions, scored a fourth try soon after the break and added a drop goal to put Wales 31-0 up in the 48th minute.<\/p>\n
Italy, coming into the match on the back of a first-ever victory over England, got their first points with a mauling try from substitute hooker Tommaso di Bartolomeo in the 53rd minute and scored a second through Tommaso Allan as they attempted a \u2060late recovery.<\/p>\n
The third try was the final action of the match with \u200cPaolo Garbisi \u200bscoring but came far too late to spoil the home party.<\/p>\n
Wales opened the scoring after 14 minutes when they won a \u200bline out and \u200cWainwright burst through several tackles to carry the ball over.<\/p>\n
He finished off a line-out drive \u200bfor the second 11 minutes later and Lake also scored from a line-out maul.<\/p>\n
The Wales forwards drove to within 10 metres of the Italian line to set up their fourth try three minutes into the second half and \u200bEdwards \u200braced over.<\/p>\n
Italy’s first try came when they kicked a \u200bpenalty to the corner and rumbled over with Di Bartolomeo \u200cemerging as the scorer. Allan’s try was followed by two efforts that fell narrowly short before Garbisi went over from Lorenzo Cannone’s offload.<\/p>\n
The win will be a major boost for the beleaguered Welsh, who have made dramatic strides after conceding 102 points in opening losses to England and France.<\/p>\n
Scotland were five minutes from losing in Cardiff before winning 26-23, and Wales lost 27-17 to Ireland \u200bin Dublin last weekend but were within one score until four minutes from time.<\/p>\n
Wales had previously suffered 25 losses \u200bin 27 internationals since the 2023 \u2060World Cup, with the only two victories in that time coming against Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales overwhelmed Italy 31-17 to end a run of 15 successive Six Nations defeats in their last game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,2328,760,103300,85,12812],"class_list":["post-540750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-italy","tag-rugby","tag-six-nations","tag-sports","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540750","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=540750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}