{"id":314669,"date":"2023-07-08T22:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314669"},"modified":"2023-07-08T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:58:36","slug":"true-australian-grit-in-crushing-win-over-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314669","title":{"rendered":"&#039;True Australian grit&#039; in crushing win over USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wallaroos bounced back from an ugly defeat to ignite their Pacific Four Series campaign with a 58-17 demolition of the United States in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/australia-wallaroos-new-zealand-black-ferns-pacific-four-series-oreilly-cup-womens-test\/976a53cb-f8c4-46e1-bf8f-000f59718252\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australia had been trounced 50-0 by world champions New Zealand in their previous match\">Australia had been trounced 50-0 by world champions New Zealand in their previous match<\/a> but showed good character to put that result behind them and improve.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Maya Stewart scored a hat trick and prop Eva Karpani nabbed a brace for the Wallaroos, who will now turn their attention to a date with tournament host Canada.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch every match of the Pacific Four Series on the home of rugby, Stan Sport.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/KRnrlm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>All matches streaming ad free, live and on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a358ce5b-4d25-4ec0-9233-9fafa4f3213b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a358ce5b-4d25-4ec0-9233-9fafa4f3213b\" alt=\"Eva Karpani of Australia celebrates her first half try.\" data-width=\"3600\" data-height=\"2901\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We knew that we didn&#x27;t put the performance out there and we didn&#x27;t perform the skills and execution that we know we can last week,&quot; captain Michaela Leonard said on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The girls have worked really hard this week in actually driving the standards ourselves and expecting better of each other and challenging each other to do better.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I think that showed today. Turning around from a 50-0 loss isn&#x27;t easy, but I think that was true Australian grit. It was great out there for the whole 80. Girls didn&#x27;t give up and that&#x27;s exactly what we&#x27;re about as a country and as a team.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/championship-2023-wallabies-destroyed-by-springboks-in-eddie-jones-return-as-coach\/f7f457ae-2e0e-4aa7-9df2-b8b1045a0ac0\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"&#x27;Disaster&#x27;: Wallabies bullied by second string Springboks\"><strong>&#x27;Disaster&#x27;: Wallabies bullied by second string Springboks<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/the-ashes-2023-alastair-cook-pushes-alex-carey-barber-shop-rumour\/8c4dafe0-092d-4bcb-87a3-a01a364e0401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cricket Australia slams bizarre barber shop rumour\ufeff\"><strong>Cricket Australia slams bizarre barber shop rumour\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ufeffREAD MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-new-zealand-warriors-parramatta-eels-highlights-result-shaun-lane-on-report-for-tripping-mitch-barnett\/a1535504-9838-45ca-927c-95a8362d5bef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Eels gun in hot water after tripping incident in loss\"><strong>Eels gun in hot water after tripping incident in loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallaroosRugby\/status\/1677782031655387136?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallaroosRugby\/status\/1677782031655387136?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia now sit third on the standings with New Zealand and Canada set to square off later on Sunday (AEST).\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Great intensity and effort from the girls but execution still wasn&#x27;t perfect,&quot; Leonard said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ll be going back to the training paddock this week trying to just clean up some of our shapes to make sure our role clarity is on point. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We know Canada&#x27;s going to come out with a physical game. We also know they&#x27;re really strong in set piece so that will be a focus for us in this area and I guess a new challenge to take on next weekend.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallaroosRugby\/status\/1677792737217888256?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallaroosRugby\/status\/1677792737217888256?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Wallaroos bounced back from an ugly defeat to ignite their Pacific Four Series campaign with a 58-17 demolition of the United States in Ottawa. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314669\" title=\"&#039;True Australian grit&#039; in crushing win over USA\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314672,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314669\/revisions\/314672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/314671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}