Boos ring around the Cardiff Arms Park as Courtney Keight is deemed to have knocked the ball forward - while replays suggest it was ripped backwards by an American hand instead.
Another penalty goes USA's way and the chorus of boos gets louder.
It's unrelenting pressure from the visitors in this second half, but they only have the five points to show for it.
More good defending from Wales, who this time manage to tackle Telesi Uhatafe into touch.
In fact the referee Amber McLachlan deems there was a knock-on in the process of the tackle, so it will be a Welsh scrum instead deep in their own half.
Molly Reardon is now on for Wales, replacing Kelsey Jones - whose try for Wales after half an hour feels a distant memory after all the action we've seen!
First try of the second half goes to the visitors, and Freda Tafuna has a hat-trick of tries.
What an afternoon it has been for the USA number eight.
When the USA get within a couple metres of the Welsh try-line she is who the visitors turn to, and she has been clinical at the Arms Park this afternoon.
Annabella Vogel misses a first conversion of the day, as the USA's lead stays at two points.