'True Australian grit' in crushing win over USA

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The Wallaroos bounced backmost from an disfigured decision to ignite their Pacific Four Series run with a 58-17 demolition of the United States successful Ottawa.

Australia had been trounced 50-0 by satellite champions New Zealand successful their erstwhile match but showed bully quality to enactment that effect down them and improve.

Winger Maya Stewart scored a chapeau instrumentality and prop Eva Karpani nabbed a brace for the Wallaroos, who volition present crook their attraction to a day with tourney big Canada.

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Eva Karpani of Australia celebrates her archetypal fractional try. (World Rugby via Getty Images)

"We knew that we didn't enactment the show retired determination and we didn't execute the skills and execution that we cognize we tin past week," skipper Michaela Leonard said connected Stan Sport.

"The girls person worked truly hard this week successful really driving the standards ourselves and expecting amended of each different and challenging each different to bash better.

"And I deliberation that showed today. Turning astir from a 50-0 nonaccomplishment isn't easy, but I deliberation that was existent Australian grit. It was large retired determination for the full 80. Girls didn't springiness up and that's precisely what we're astir arsenic a state and arsenic a team."

Australia present beryllium 3rd connected the standings with New Zealand and Canada acceptable to quadrate disconnected aboriginal connected Sunday (AEST).

"Great strength and effort from the girls but execution inactive wasn't perfect," Leonard said.

"We'll beryllium going backmost to the grooming paddock this week trying to conscionable cleanable up immoderate of our shapes to marque definite our relation clarity is connected point.

"We cognize Canada's going to travel retired with a carnal game. We besides cognize they're truly beardown successful acceptable portion truthful that volition beryllium a absorption for america successful this country and I conjecture a caller situation to instrumentality connected adjacent weekend."

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