{"id":481930,"date":"2026-02-15T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481930\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:47:08","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-late-zoe-harrison-kick-seals-saracens-win-over-bristol-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481930\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby: Late Zoe Harrison kick seals Saracens win over Bristol Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England fly-half Zoe Harrison nailed a late long-range penalty as Saracens snatched a 36-33 win over Bristol Bears at StoneX Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victors raced into a  26-12 lead at half-time through tries by Millie Whizz, New Zealand&#8217;s Ruahei Demant and England prop Sarah Bern, who crossed twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite two scores by hooker May Campbell and one by Olivia Apps to retake the lead, Bristol then levelled the game after Keira Bevan converted her own try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Harrison confidently smashed over a 79th-minute penalty to show why she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czjvgj81y2mo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England&#8217;s World Cup-winning starting fly-half.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory meant Saracens kept up the pressure on Premiership Rugby Women&#8217;s league leaders Gloucester-Hartpury, while Bristol remain second from bottom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter Chiefs defeated Loughborough Lightning 26-5 at Sandy Park in Sunday&#8217;s other PWR fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Francesca Granzotto, Amy Rule and Hope Rogers all scored first-half tries for the Chiefs, with Ireland&#8217;s Dorothy Wall grabbing the vital bonus-point try in the final play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result moved Exeter into third place above Harlequins, who lost to Gloucester-Hartpury on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England fly-half Zoe Harrison nailed a late long-range penalty as Saracens snatched a 36-33 win over Bristol Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-481930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}