{"id":225093,"date":"2025-10-25T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:46:09","slug":"trailfinders-women-12-24-exeter-chiefs-exeter-begin-premiership-womens-rugby-campaign-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225093\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailfinders Women 12-24 Exeter Chiefs: Exeter begin Premiership Women’s Rugby campaign with win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exeter Chiefs produced a dominant first-half display as they began their Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a 24-12 victory at Trailfinders.<\/p>\n

Exeter started brightly with Liv McGoverne opening the scoring after 13 minutes before Hope Rogers seized a loose ball and went over six minutes later, with McGoverne successfully converting.<\/p>\n

An excellent quick attacking move saw Maisy Allen send a pass to Gabriella Nigrelli out wide who delivered her side’s third try, with McGoverne adding the extras to make it 19-0 at the break.<\/p>\n

McGoverne was involved once again as her side made it 24-0 in the 49th minute, setting up England’s Claudia Moloney-MacDonald out wide with a looping pass.<\/p>\n

While Trailfinders looked like they were firmly out of contention, Kate Zackary gave the hosts hope when she spotted a gap and dived over in the 54th minute, with Meg Jones converting.<\/p>\n

Their positive second-half display only saw them manage five more points, though, as Georgia Ponsonby grounded in a crowded area out wide to reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n

Sale Sharks host Leicester Tigers at 19:00 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, the PWR season began as Harlequins beat Loughborough Lightning 52-48<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs produced a dominant first-half display as they began their Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a 24-12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225093","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\/225093","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=225093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}