{"id":463137,"date":"2026-03-07T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:05:07","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-may-campbell-inspires-saracens-to-win-over-harlequins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463137\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women’s Rugby: May Campbell inspires Saracens to win over Harlequins"},"content":{"rendered":"

May Campbell scored three tries as she helped Saracens back to the top of the Premiership Women’s Rugby table courtesy of a 43-26 win at Harlequins.<\/p>\n

Saracens are level on 55 points with Gloucester-Hartpury, who beat Exeter Chiefs on Friday, but lead thanks to their superior points difference.<\/p>\n

Campbell went over early on to put her side in front against Harlequins, who responded with a Jade Konkel try.<\/p>\n

The home side were without England’s Ellie Kildunne<\/a> as she – similarly to Loughborough Lightning’s Sadia Kabeya – has been unable to return to the UK becuase of the travel disruption caused by the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The two teams traded tries through Sophie Bridger for Saracens and Aoife Wafer for Harlequins before the visitors pulled away.<\/p>\n

Olivia Apps scored with a clever finish for Saracens and team-mate Jess Breach produced a surging run to touch down and give her side a bonus-point try just before half-time. <\/p>\n

Two Campbell tries after the break helped Saracens into a 40-12 lead and, despite Lagi Tuima and Ella Cromack crossing for Harlequins, a Zoe Harrison penalty rounded off the win for the visitors.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Bristol Bears scored 10 tries as they thrashed bottom-of-the-table Leicester Tigers 68-0.<\/p>\n

Demelza Short went over twice, while Ella Lovibond, Charlie Woodman, Elliann Clarke, Jenny Herring, Delaney Burns, Jenny Hesketh, Evie Gallagher and Keira Bevan also contributed tries.<\/p>\n

Sale Sharks came back from 14-0 down to narrowly beat Lougborough Lightning 31-29.<\/p>\n

A Katie Childs try helped Sale level at 24-24 before team-mate Gwenllian Pyrs touched down as the home side took a 31-24 lead. <\/p>\n

A late Bulou Mataitoga try reduced Loughborough’s deficit to two points but Sale held on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May Campbell scored three tries as she helped Saracens back to the top of the Premiership Women’s Rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463137","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\/463137","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=463137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}