It all came after Wales, whose captain Bethan Dainton was the tournament’s top tackler by a distance in the first two rounds with 77, rose to the occasion with a strong start.<\/p>\n
But Australia struck in the sixth minute through lock Olivia Kernick following prop Makenzie Weale’s terrific offload out the back, and the Jillaroos then clicked into gear.<\/p>\n
Long-striding, hard-fending Chapman scored a double down the left and fellow wing Abbi Church powered through weak tackles on the right.<\/p>\n
Wales were unable to string together good moments and a fifth try came through Jesse Southwell from failure to claim a regulation high ball just seconds after Jade Mullen had put in a huge tackle.<\/p>\n
Australia were ruthless and the scores kept coming through centre Jessica Sergis, second row Kezie Apps and Chapman for a first-half hat-trick.<\/p>\n
Sergis brought up the half-century with a weaving run and was followed over by second row Sariah Paki.<\/p>\n
The stats told the story – Australia had 84% of possession in the first half and completed 21 of 22 sets, with almost 13 minutes of possession to two minutes and 29 seconds.<\/p>\n
It took just over a minute for Keilee Joseph to get the scoreboard ticking after the restart and the scores kept coming from Sergis, Chapman, Joseph again and Church.<\/p>\n
The Jillaroos beat their 92-0 record, set against France in the 2022 World Cup, when Southwell converted Sergis’ fourth try, hitting three figures when the extras were added to star full-back Tamika Upton’s breakaway.<\/p>\n
Wales’ moment came when Travis, scorer of their historic try against England, won the race to Tayla Preston’s kick through.<\/p>\n
It was only a brief change of pattern with Keeley Nizza, Chapman twice and Upton going over to complete the destruction.<\/p>\n
Wales captain Bethan Dainton said:<\/p>\n
“We just wanted to create a legacy back home for young girls coming through, and I think we did that. The scorelines haven’t been in our favour but no one gave up and I am so proud of the girls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all came after Wales, whose captain Bethan Dainton was the tournament’s top tackler by a distance in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820624","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=820624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}