Watch every second of the 2026 Nations Championship\u00a0 live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nWinger Dylan Pietsch opened the scoring in the fourth minute, diving over from close range as he scored a double.<\/p>\n
Feliuai then set up a surging Nick Frost for the second, with the lock one of several standouts in the win.<\/p>\n
The Aussies were then forced to rally after the Brumbies midfielder was initially yellow carded for a high shot in the 15th minute, eventually upgraded to a red.<\/p>\n
Feliuai was caught upright trying to make a tackle, collecting the Eagles attacker in the head, leaving no choice but the upgrade.<\/p>\n
However, even with 14 players, the Australians were still in complete control of the match as they consistently made ground over the advantage line<\/p>\n
Joe Brial delivered the spark, defying the numbers after backing up a bomb from Tane Edmed to trace clear.<\/p>\n
America eventually got on the board via Michael Baska but the Aussies responded through their rolling maul and skipper Matt Faessler.<\/p>\n
The USA crossed on half time via Mark O\u2019Keeffe to leave the score at 26-12, however, the Aussie A team blew out the scoreline in the second half.<\/p>\n
Scrumhalf Nathan Hastie and Kadin Pritchard scored within five minutes of each as the Aussies were in complete control.<\/p>\n
Wallabies debutant Harry McLaughlin-Phillips got in on the action, celebrating his dream month with a five pointer.<\/p>\n
Pietsch\u2019s second brought up the half century as Tim Ryan sealed the win after latching onto a loose pass and running 50 metres for the try.<\/p>\n
The two teams will head to New Jersey next weekend for the second match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia A have eased past the USA, cruising to a 61-12 win in their opening match in Nashville.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,124907,760,85],"class_list":["post-939953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-a","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939953","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=939953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}