Gloucester-Hartpury made it 10 wins out of 10 in Premiership Women’s Rugby as they ran in seven tries at home to third-placed Harlequins.<\/p>\n
Sisilia Tuipulotu starred for the defending champions, helping them on their way to a comprehensive 45-22 victory with two first-half tries. <\/p>\n
The league leaders opened a 10-point cushion over second-placed Saracens, who host Bristol Bears on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Sale Sharks won 36-31 at Trailfinders in Saturday’s other match. <\/p>\n
Kate Williams touched down an early opener for Gloucester-Hartpury but Harlequins scored two tries either side of Tuipulotu’s double, through Ella Cromack and Lauren Torley. <\/p>\n
The visitors went into half-time trailing just 19-10 and refused to let the league leaders pull away, twice responding to scores from Kelsey Jones and Tatyana Heard with tries of their own from Liana Mikaele-Tu’u and Aoife Wafer. <\/p>\n
The Ireland international’s effort earned a losing bonus point for Quins, before Gloucester-Hartpury made the result safe with late tries from Maud Muir and Lucy Simpson.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Sale Sharks produced a battling display at Trailfinders to come from 10 points down with 20 minutes remaining to clinch their second win of the season. <\/p>\n
Charlotte Fray ran in the decisive late try for the Sharks, but they remain seventh in the table, eight points behind fifth-placed Trailfinders.<\/p>\n
Premiership Women’s Rugby action continues with two games on Sunday (15 February):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester-Hartpury made it 10 wins out of 10 in Premiership Women’s Rugby as they ran in seven tries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-425972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425972","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=425972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}