{"id":627324,"date":"2026-06-08T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:08:08","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-bristol-bears-shock-gloucester-hartpury-in-pwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627324\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby: Bristol Bears shock Gloucester-Hartpury in PWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears stunned defending Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby champions Gloucester-Hartpury with a 26-21 win at Kingsholm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two tries from Bears wing Reneeqa Bonner, along with scores from Red Roses prop Sarah Bern and replacement hooker Holly Phillips, secured a memorable victory for Scott Lawson&#8217;s side, who finish a disappointing campaign in eighth place in the PWR table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having already secured top spot, Gloucester-Hartpury rested a large number of their England stars with one eye on next weekend&#8217;s play-off semi-final as they look to win the competition for a fourth consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second-place Saracens ended their regular-season campaign by hammering Trailfinders Women 80-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Exeter Chiefs, who were already guaranteed third spot, defeated Sale Sharks 50-24 at Sandy Park, extending their winning streak to four matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trailfinders Women, with seven wins, finish fourth in the table and will travel to face Gloucester-Hartpury at 14:00 BST in the semi-finals on Sunday, while Saracens will host Exeter Chiefs on the same day at 16:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winners will then meet in the final on Sunday, 28 June at Twickenham Stoop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Loughborough Lightning won 50-36 away to Leicester Tigers in Sunday&#8217;s other fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory moved Lightning above Sale Sharks into sixth place in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears stunned defending Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby champions Gloucester-Hartpury with a 26-21 win at Kingsholm on Sunday. Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627324","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\/627324","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=627324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}