{"id":240567,"date":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-round-up-saracens-power-past-rivals-harlequins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240567\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby round-up: Saracens power past rivals Harlequins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Roses full-back Kildunne was making her 50th appearance for Quins, but it was Saracens who made all the early running at the StoneX Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corrigan opened the scoring in only the second minute and the visitors were already trailing 19-0 when Katie Shillaker scored out wide to put Quins on the board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poppy Cleall was sin-binned for the home side in the 28th minute but they extended their advantage before the break with a debut try from Laets Royer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sydney Gregson put Corrigan in for her second try of the game at the start of the second half but while Kildunne touched down for Quins to make it 33-10 with seven minutes remaining, Louise McMillan and Amelia MacDougall countered with two late tries for Sarries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears opened their campaign with a 12-try rout at Leicester Tigers in what was Scott Lawson&#8217;s first game in charge of last season&#8217;s fourth-placed finishers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millie David led the charge with an impressive four tries, followed closely by a hat-trick from speedy winger Reneeq Bonner at Mattioli Woods Welford Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ella Lovibond weighed in with a couple, while there was also a try apiece for Bristol&#8217;s Evie Gallagher, Amy Dale and Holly Phillips. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only sour note for the Bears was an injury to centre Phoebe Miller, who left the ground on crutches after being forced off midway through the first half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Cup winner Holly Aitchison could not inspire Sale Sharks to a second victory in as many games after returning to the squad for her first match of the season at Loughbrough Lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side, which included Red Roses duo Sadia Kabeya and Lilli Ives Campion, bounced back from their narrow opening-day defeat at Harlequins to record a 19-12 win at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tahlia Brody gave Lightning a first-half lead with a try on her debut, while Haineala Lutui touched down twice in the second half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries for Sharifa Kasolo and Rhona Loyd secured a losing bonus point for Sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Roses full-back Kildunne was making her 50th appearance for Quins, but it was Saracens who made all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240567","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\/240567","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=240567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}