{"id":256963,"date":"2025-07-11T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:30:10","slug":"wales-u20s-impress-in-comprehensive-summer-series-win-over-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256963\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales U20s impress in comprehensive Summer Series win over Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales Under-20s secured their first win of the Six Nations Summer Series with an impressive display against Scotland in Ystrad Mynach.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First half tries from Mollie Wilkinson, Seren Singleton, Savannah Picton-Powell and captain Branwen Metcalfe gave Wales a commanding 28-8 lead at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosie Carr and Picton-Powell&#8217;s second try extended Wales&#8217; lead early in the second half but Scotland rallied through Poppy Melanby and a Freya MacColl brace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That saw Scotland cut the deficit to nine points but Wales sealed victory in the final 10 minutes with tries from Dali Hopkins and Evie Hill to secure a 52-20<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier England had beaten Italy 36-20 before France&#8217;s 41-12 win over Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales face Italy in the final round of matches on Thursday, 17 July (15:30 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales Under-20s secured their first win of the Six Nations Summer Series with an impressive display against Scotland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-256963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836263750350493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}