{"id":138193,"date":"2025-09-15T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138193\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:24:03","slug":"womens-super-league-st-helens-thrash-leigh-york-almost-stun-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138193\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Super League: St Helens thrash Leigh, York almost stun Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second-placed St Helens remain just a point behind Leaders&#8217; Shield winners Wigan Warriors with a 44-0 win over Leigh Leopards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dani McGifford&#8217;s double, plus tries from Rachael Woosey, Beri Salihi, Shona Hoyle and Caitlin Maylor helped the Saints to a 30-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salihi added a second after the break, before Luci McColm and Vicky Whitfield rounded off the scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Warrington Wolves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c784d645jedo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were unable to fulfil the rest of the season<\/a>, Wigan were automatically awarded a 48-0 win and lead Saints by the one point in the Women&#8217;s Super League table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Huddersfield Giants thrashed Barrow Raiders 48-6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amelia Brown scored two early tries for Huddersfield before Barrow&#8217;s only score, a converted Beth Lindsay try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Abigail Liu, Lois Naidole and Kelsey Gentles added three more tries to make it 28-6 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown completed her hat-trick 10 minutes after the interval before Mollie Iceton and Sam Hulme, who also converted six times, got in on the act. Charlotte Shaw scored the final try seven minutes from time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds Rhinos had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/womens-super-league\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured fourth place<\/a> before they beat York Valkyrie 30-14, but they had to survive a second-half scare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruby Walker gave them the lead after just three minutes before Shannon Brown and Lucy Murray added two more tries before half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray scored twice more to complete her hat-trick either side of Valkyrie&#8217;s first score through Georgie Dagger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peace Lekuru and Savannah Andrade both crossed in the final 10 minutes, but it was too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-placed St Helens remain just a point behind Leaders&#8217; Shield winners Wigan Warriors with a 44-0 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-138193","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\/138193","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=138193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}