{"id":331467,"date":"2026-03-15T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:53:10","slug":"black-ferns-sevens-come-back-to-pip-australia-in-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331467\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ferns Sevens come back to pip Australia in thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d202fa6a-6c7f-46ce-b64c-d64c8661696e.png\" alt=\"Cameron McMillan\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/cameron-mcmillan\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron McMillan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Head of Sport\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>15 Mar, 2026 10:02 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The Black Ferns celebrate after the final whistle to defeat Australia in the New York final. Photo \/  SmartFrame<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Black Ferns Sevens cemented their dominance over rivals Australia with a thrilling come-from-behind victory to claim the New York Sevens title today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trailing 21-5 with just over four minutes to play, New Zealand scored three late tries to edge Australia 22-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         After having already secured the world series title<br \/>\n         earlier in the tournament, New Zealand clinched their fifth title of the season in the sixth final match-up between the transtasman rivals.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Alena Saili, Kelsey Teneti and Katelyn Vahaakolo all scored in the closing stages before captain Risi Pouri-Lane kicked the winning conversion from close range having missed her three previous attempts from wide out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Australia looked odds-on to get one over New Zealand for the second time this season after Teagan Levi crossed for her second try shortly after halftime, after her sister Maddison scored Australia\u2019s opener in the first half. With a 16 point lead however, Australia barely touched the ball again as the Black Ferns Sevens took over in the final quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron McMillan Deputy Head of Sport\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 15 Mar, 2026 10:02 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,1863,7022,26266,2741,8615,57534,58216,10541,78,111,139,69,1523,69740,9424,86296,213,165,8731,55469,2563,61,1865,8982,102,2173],"class_list":["post-331467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-back","tag-black","tag-cemented","tag-claim","tag-come","tag-comefrombehind","tag-dominance","tag-ferns","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-pip","tag-rivals","tag-sevens","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-thriller","tag-thrilling","tag-title","tag-to","tag-today","tag-victory","tag-with","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}