{"id":614765,"date":"2026-04-18T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:26:10","slug":"wallaroos-outmuscled-by-usa-eagles-after-wild-weather-delays-pacific-four-clash-australia-womens-rugby-union-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614765\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaroos outmuscled by USA Eagles after wild weather delays Pacific Four clash | Australia women’s rugby union team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild weather delayed play for nearly three hours before the Wallaroos were outmuscled 33-12 by the United States in a Pacific Four Series rugby clash that went beyond midnight in Kansas.<\/p>\n

Prop Hope Rogers scored a double as the hosts ran in the final three tries after Australian winger Desiree Miller\u2019s try early in the second half made it a two-point game.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s squad had bunkered in a hotel hallway earlier in the week during a tornado warning, after being beaten by Canada in the wet last weekend<\/a>, and will appreciate their return home to face New Zealand on the Sunshine Coast, on Anzac Day next Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Wallaroos conceded nine first-half penalties and had only 30% of the ball before the first break.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can definitely say that ill-discipline was the reason why we probably weren\u2019t able to play the rugby game that we wanted,\u201d captain Siokapesi Palu Sekona said post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying a host nation, they\u2019re always going to have an advantage in that space, but there\u2019s no excuse from our end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been an us-versus-us mentality, and what it means is that we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do once we go back. We\u2019ll travel home and start working towards that match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers opened the scoring and Maya Stewart was yellow-carded for Australia\u2019s repeat infringements.<\/p>\n

But the Australians scored next, the captain crashing over after Samantha Wood\u2019s smart 50-22 kick.<\/p>\n

Georgie Perris-Redding scored a deserved try for the US before halftime but, after Miller gave Australia hope, the hosts shut the door in an emphatic final 25 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild weather delayed play for nearly three hours before the Wallaroos were outmuscled 33-12 by the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-614765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614765","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=614765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}