{"id":137363,"date":"2025-09-06T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137363\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:31:07","slug":"eagles-score-six-unanswered-tries-to-heap-pressure-on-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137363\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles score six unanswered tries to heap pressure on Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/united-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:United States;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">United States<\/a> scored 10 unanswered tries as they romped to a 60-0 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/samoa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Samoa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Samoa<\/a> at the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup on Saturday, keeping their hopes of advancing to the quarter-finals alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Freda Tafuna scored four tries, with two for Hope Rogers and one each for Cassidy Bargell, Erica Coulibaly, Erica Jarrell-Searcy and Olivia Ortiz at the York Community Stadium as the Americans picked up a key bonus point for a Pool A total of eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even a second-half booking for substitute Kristin Bitter could not open the door wide enough for Samoa to get on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/rugby\/womens-rugby-world-cup\/england-vs-australia-live-stream-latest-score-updates-result-womens-rugby-world-cup-b1246342.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The United States now face an anxious wait to see how Australia fare later on Saturday against favourites England;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The United States now face an anxious wait to see how Australia fare later on Saturday against favourites England<\/a>, needing a huge favour from the hosts if they are to compete in the knockout stage next weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:England;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">England<\/a> must beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Australia<\/a> by 76 points and deny the Wallaroos a bonus point when they meet in Brighton (kick-off 1600 GMT) to allow the Americans to take second place in the pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If Australia lose and do not get a bonus point, second place will be decided by points difference. The U.S. have a minus two-point difference after their three games while Australia are plus 73 after beating Samoa and then drawing with the Americans in York last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Samoa depart the tournament with only three points, a penalty kicked over by Harmony Vatau to rapturous applause against England at Northampton last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But they came close to their first try of the tournament on several occasions in a spirited second-half performance on Saturday with the York crowd willing them on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Samoa conceded a total of 225 points in their three games at the tournament in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States scored 10 unanswered tries as they romped to a 60-0 win over Samoa at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1246,85917,85916,85918,3,37304,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-137363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-bonus-point","tag-erica-coulibaly","tag-freda-tafuna","tag-news","tag-samoa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}