{"id":989,"date":"2023-11-03T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/989\/australia-v-new-zealand-jillaroos-ferns\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T09:09:31","slug":"australia-v-new-zealand-jillaroos-ferns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Australia v New Zealand, Jillaroos, Ferns, stats, scores, match report, rugby league news, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australia won their rematch against New Zealand in the World Cup final with a hard-fought victory in Townsville on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-10 victory proved a much closer affair than the World Cup final the Jillaroos won this time last year 54-4.<\/p>\n<p>Australian fullback and Dally M medalist Tamika Upton scored the opener in the fifth minute, but the Kiwi Ferns fought back.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Annessa Biddle headed a goal wide, but Raecene McGregor failed to convert to lock up the scores.<\/p>\n<p>The Jillaroos then went through when Caitlan Johnston burst through before Upton got her brace in the 32nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand center Mele Hufanga scored the first try of the second half to reduce the gap to six points, setting up a finish in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/stands\/\"   title=\"stands\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">stands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-11i7hbm-0 eUyOEq\"><amp-img alt=\"Kennedy Cherrington of the Jillaroos is tackled on Saturday. Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/b1fb9ecf5a17d7d2610ef5746034c37e\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  layout=\"responsive\" attribution=\"test\" class=\"i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"responsive\"><i-amphtml-sizer style=\"display:block;padding-top:56.25%\"\/><\/amp-img><figcaption class=\"sc-11i7hbm-1 gSnntl\"><span>Jillaroos&#8217; Kennedy Cherrington is tackled on Saturday.  Getty<\/span><span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the visitors failed to equalize and when Biddle was taken off just before full time, it was all over.<\/p>\n<p>Upton almost completed his hat trick in the second half, but had to settle for Australia&#8217;s 15th consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s 15 in a row for the Jillaroos, the 2022 World Cup champions begin their international season a year later with a victory against their World Cup victims,\u201d Matt Russell said on Fox League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia won their rematch against New Zealand in the World Cup final with a hard-fought victory in Townsville on Saturday night. The 16-10 victory proved a much closer affair than the World Cup final the Jillaroos won this time last year 54-4. Australian fullback and Dally M medalist Tamika Upton scored the opener in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144,1009,1174,703,1203,714,20,846,38,1072,1073,1007],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-australia","tag-ferns","tag-jillaroos","tag-league","tag-match","tag-news","tag-reaction","tag-report","tag-rugby","tag-scores","tag-stats","tag-zealand"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}