{"id":385287,"date":"2026-04-18T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385287\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:33:08","slug":"black-ferns-come-from-behind-to-beat-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385287\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ferns come from behind to beat Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Ferns have avenged their World Cup semifinal loss to Canada last year with a stunning victory today in their Pacific Four Series clash in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>In a match which was delayed for three hours because of lightning, the New Zealanders beat the Canadians 36-14.<\/p>\n<p>In a remarkable turnaround, the Black Ferns overcame a 14-5 deficit at halftime, running in five tries in the second half with some scintillating running and handling.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ferns took the lead for the first time in the 61st minute, when Kaipo Olsen-Baker got the ball down amid a crowd of bodies. The referee initially ruled &#8216;held up over the line&#8217; but a TMO interjection saw the decision overturned.<\/p>\n<p>They scored again two minutes later with a brilliant try to Maama Mo&#8217;onia Vaipulu and the pressure from there on was too much for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The United States play Australia in the later game today.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Ferns beat the US 48-15 last weekend, while Canada beat Australia 24-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/592736\/black-ferns-come-from-behind-to-beat-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Ferns have avenged their World Cup semifinal loss to Canada last year with a stunning victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10898,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-385287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-black-ferns","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385287","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=385287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}