{"id":735642,"date":"2026-06-14T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:34:11","slug":"waratahs-set-up-super-rugby-w-win-over-brumbies-with-rousing-first-half-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735642\/","title":{"rendered":"Waratahs set up Super Rugby W win over Brumbies with rousing first half showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The NSW Waratahs have maintained their hold on their Super W rivals, with Kaitlan Leaney scoring two tries in a dominant first half as they banked a 29-17 victory over the Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The reigning champions have never been beaten by a domestic rival and kept the impressive record alive at Canberra&#8217;s Viking Park in their Sunday clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">NSW got off to a flying start and led 26-7 at halftime, with Wallaroos lock Leaney chiming in with two tries in her 25th match for her side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Her second was scored in extra time in the half, with the visitors taking advantage of the Brumbies losing prop Martha Fua to a yellow card for collapsing a maul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;It was a tough one out there. The first half was really exciting for us and we played in the right areas and had some really exciting attacking rugby,&#8221; Leaney told Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;In that second half a couple of discipline errors got us on the back foot and the Brumbies really came out firing and it was a battle out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Skipper Emily Chancellor also touched down after running onto a Piper Duck pass, while the Waratahs used their set-piece strength to put hooker Brittany Merlo over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Former Queensland winger Ivania Wong got on the scoreboard for the Brumbies in the 24th minute after they worked the ball wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The second half was a more even affair with hard-running Brumbies blindside flanker Lily Bone closing the margin with a try four minutes in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">They added to that tally in the 75th minute through Spanish scrumhalf Anne Fernandez de Corres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">While the lead proved too much to peg back, the Brumbies can take pride from keeping NSW from adding to their try-scoring haul, with a late penalty from Desiree Miller their only second half points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW Waratahs have maintained their hold on their Super W rivals, with Kaitlan Leaney scoring two tries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,292896,33008,760,85,131635,33009],"class_list":["post-735642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brumbies-women","tag-nsw-waratahs-women","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-w","tag-waratahs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735642","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=735642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}