{"id":236824,"date":"2025-10-31T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236824\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:47:09","slug":"prem-rugby-cup-wins-for-bath-and-leicester-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236824\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby Cup: Wins for Bath and Leicester Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Pool B, Leicester claimed their third win in three after Bailey snatched the game from Newcastle with his boot with seven minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle, who had won their opening game at home to Harlequins, scored the only points of the first half as captain Ollie Fletcher barged over from close range to make it 5-0 at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester&#8217;s first points came from winger George Pearson, who intercepted a pass in his own 22 and ran the length of the pitch to score, with the conversion putting the Tigers 7-5 in front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle went back ahead in the final quarter as they won a scrum penalty and Brett Connon was on target from 35 metres out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they could not close the game out, and Gabriel Hamer-Webb made a break for Leicester that resulted in a penalty in front of the posts, and Bailey made no mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Pool B, Leicester claimed their third win in three after Bailey snatched the game from Newcastle with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236824","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\/236824","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=236824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}