Leaders Wigan Warriors extended their perfect start to the Women’s Super League season as they edged St Helens 32-28 in a thriller at Edge Hall Road.<\/p>\n
Warriors led 22-16 at the break thanks to Eva Hunter’s double and Anna Davies and Izzy Rowe scores, with Emily Rudge, Phoebe Hook and Mia Drescher replying in a back-and-forth first half.<\/p>\n
Rachael Woosey’s try and Faye Gaskin’s third goal pulled the Saints level, but Davies’ second and Mary Coleman sealed victory despite Hook’s late try.<\/p>\n
Rowe added four goals to take her personal tally to 12 points.<\/p>\n
Second-placed Leeds Rhinos remained within two points of Wigan as they kept pace by thrashing Leigh Leopards 72-0 at Headingley.<\/p>\n
The hosts ran in eight first-half tries through Mel Howard (2), Amelia Hirst (2), Liv Whitehead, Keara Bennett, Ebony Stead and Ruby Bruce.<\/p>\n
Leeds maintained their dominance after the break with Ruby Walker crossing twice and Whitehead grabbing a second, while Grace Short, Connie Boyd and Frankie Blakey added further gloss. <\/p>\n
Ellie Williamson’s hat-trick inspired defending champions York Valkyrie to a 44-0 win on the road at second-bottom Featherstone Rovers.<\/p>\n
Tries from Williamson, Megan Pakulis, Monique Donovan and Emma Kershaw sent them 18-0 clear at the break.<\/p>\n
Valkyrie completed the one-sided win with five more tries after the break, with Williamson and Eboni Partington crossing twice and Petra Woods going over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders Wigan Warriors extended their perfect start to the Women’s Super League season as they edged St Helens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663507","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\/663507","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=663507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}