{"id":42227,"date":"2025-08-04T01:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:59:06","slug":"late-wales-try-sees-scotland-women-lose-on-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42227\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Wales try sees Scotland women lose on debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Bethan Dainton scored a late try as Wales inflicted defeat on Scotland in their first women&#8217;s rugby league international at Neath&#8217;s Gnoll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland made the perfect start inside the opening four minutes with Grace Field scoring her country&#8217;s first ever try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales responded through tries from Lucia Davies, Kathryn Salter and Dani McGifford which saw them take the lead before Sarah Smart scored Scotland&#8217;s second try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The score remained 12-10 until 15 minutes from time Smart&#8217;s kick brought the visitors level but Dainton scored the crucial winning try for Wales with two minutes remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Bethan Dainton scored a late try as Wales inflicted defeat on Scotland in their first women&#8217;s rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-42227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}