Pacific Four – USA vs New Zealand – ARN Guide – Americas Rugby News

The Pacific 4 wraps up on Friday with a double-header at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa. Opening the afternoon is the USA Eagles towards the world champion New Zealand Black Ferns.

Wealthy Ashfield opted to discipline an inexperienced aspect towards Australia on Saturday and the consequence was a dominant victory for the Wallaroos. The Eagles are actually resigned to enjoying within the second tier of the WXV and present three adjustments to the run-on aspect.

Charli Jacoby anchors the entrance row with Mae Sagapolu dropping out of the match day squad. Rachel Ehrecke swaps jerseys with Evi Ashenbrucker to start out at lock. Erica Jarrell might make her take a look at debut as a alternative. There’s a change on the left wing the place Summer season Harris-Jones takes over for Lotte Clapp.

New Zealand had been challenged up entrance by the Canadians however used their excellent backline to drag away within the last quarter. They’re now poised to brush the collection and take the highest seed place heading into the brand new WXV competitors later this yr.

Allan Bunting has made wholesale adjustments to his aspect with two new caps within the entrance row. Esther Faiaoga-Tilo and Grace Gago are on debut, whereas 21-year-old second row Maia Roos will turn out to be the youngest captain in Black Ferns historical past with Kennedy Simon and Ruahei Demant each left on the bench.

Perfect situations are anticipated at kickoff. That’s excellent news for New Zealand, who will look to stretch the USA protection and placed on one other show of attacking rugby. The Eagles would possibly maintain on till midway however anticipate one other lopsided scoreline in favor of the world champs come the ultimate whistle.

Kickoff is ready for 4pm native time, 1pm Pacific. FloRugby will broadcast within the USA, with TSN Digital obtainable in Canada, Sky Sport in New Zealand, and a World Rugby stream obtainable for these positioned elsewhere.

USA
1 Catie Benson, 2 Kathryn Treder, 3 Charli Jacoby, 4 Rachel Ehrecke, 5 Hallie Taufo’ou, 6 Freda Tafuna, 7 Georgie Perris-Redding, 8 Rachel Johnson, 9 Taina Tukuafu, 10 McKenzie Hawkins, 11 Summer season Harris-Jones, 12 Eti Haungatau, 13 Kate Zackary (capt.), 14 Jennine Detiveaux, 15 Tess Feury

Replacements: 16 Jett Hayward, 17 Mona Tupou, 18 Tiara A’au, 19 Evi Ashenbrucker, 20 Erica Jarrell, 21 Olivia Ortiz, 22 Joanne Fa’avesi, 23 Mayor Bizer

NEW ZEALAND
1 Esther Faiaoga-Tilo, 2 Grace Gago, 3 Amy Rule, 4 Joanah Ngan-Woo, 5 Maia Roos (capt.), 6 Lucy Jenkins, 7 Kendra Reynolds, 8 Liana Mikaele-Tu’u, 9 Iritana Hohaia, 10 Rosie Kelly, 11 Grace Steinmetz, 12 Grace Brooker, 13 Amy du Plessis, 14 Kelsey Teneti, 15 Tenika Willison

Replacements: 16 Georgia Ponsonby, 17 Phillipa Love, 18 Tanya Kalounivale, 19 Chelsea Bremner, 20 Kennedy Simon, 21 Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu, 22 Ruahei Demant, 23 Renee Holmes

Date: Friday, July 14
Venue: TD Place Stadium, Ottawa
Kickoff: 16:00 native (13:00 Pacific)
Broadcasts: FloRugby, Sky Sport NZ, TSN Digital, World Rugby

Referee: Julianne Zussman (Canada)
Assistants: Shanda Assmus (Canada) & Kristine Lovatt (Canada)
TMO: Chris Assmus (Canada)

HISTORICAL RESULTS
2022-06-18 – New Zealand 50, USA 6 (Auckland)
2019-07-14 – USA 0, New Zealand 33 (ChulaVista)
2018-11-03 – USA 6, New Zealand 67 (Chicago)
2017-08-22 – New Zealand 45, USA 12 (Belfast)
2015-07-05 – USA 14, New Zealand 47 (Edmonton)
2014-08-17 – USA 5, New Zealand 55 (Paris)
2014-08-09 – New Zealand 34, USA 3 (Paris)
2004-06-13 – USA 0, New Zealand 35 (Calgary)
2000-09-27 – USA 0, New Zealand 45 (Winnipeg)
1999-10-19 – New Zealand 65, USA 5 (Palmerston North)
1998-05-16 – New Zealand 44, USA 12 (Amsterdam)
1996-09-11 – USA 8, New Zealand 88 (Edmonton)
1991-04-12 – New Zealand 0, USA 7 (Cardiff)
1990-08-30 – New Zealand 9, USA 3 (Christchurch)