In Pool A, Sale Sharks produced a dominant second-half performance to beat Bristol Bears 24-15 at a sparsely attended Salford Community Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Bears started the stronger, Joe Jenkins touching down under the posts following a break from Harry Thacker, before Tom O’Flaherty responded for the home team against the run of play.<\/p>\n
In deteriorating weather, a determined period of pressure before half-time finally paid dividends for Pat Lam’s men as debutant Josh Carrington forced his way over, assisted by AJ MacGinty.<\/p>\n
But Bristol were unable to replicate that form in the second half and with Fitz Harding in the sin-bin, Sale levelled the scores – debutant Nathan Jibulu barrelling over from short range.<\/p>\n
With Bristol – for whom Louis Rees-Zammit came on for his debut after 50 minutes – unable to escape their own half, replacement scrum-half Dom Hanson turned the game on its head, diving over for Sale’s third try following a break from Ollie Davies.<\/p>\n
Davies then claimed a deserved try of his own with five minutes left, fighting his way over in the corner after a quick passing move involving Rekeiti Ma’asi-White to give Sharks a bonus point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Pool A, Sale Sharks produced a dominant second-half performance to beat Bristol Bears 24-15 at a sparsely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-135015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}