{"id":791078,"date":"2026-10-03T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791078\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:42:09","slug":"bristol-bears-41-26-northampton-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791078\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears 41-26 Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL BEARS SEE OFF REIGNING CHAMPIONS TO MAKE IT TWO WINS FROM TWO<\/p>\n<p>Tries from Gabriel Oghre, Louis Rees-Zammit, Tom Jordan and Harry Randall, plus a late penalty try, helped Bristol Bears beat reigning champions Northampton Saints 41-26 at Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears led 15-14 at half-time before pulling away after the break, with Rees-Zammit scoring twice as Bristol made it two wins from two.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol made the brighter start but Northampton soon found their way into the contest, with both sides trading scores in an entertaining opening half.<\/p>\n<p>Rees-Zammit produced a moment of magic to create a 50\/22 before later finishing a slick attacking move in the corner to put Bristol ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-transparent size-full object-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-15d55d8b-1f08-4ee7-945a-3e31598b8401-85-2560-1440.jpeg\" alt=\"picture\" data-testid=\"image-high-res\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Rees-Zammit &#8216;makes it look so easy&#8217; as Bristol flyer dives in for double<\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n<p>The Bears came out strongly after the restart and extended their lead when Rees-Zammit tore through the Saints defence before Jimmy Williams released Jordan, who stretched for the line.<\/p>\n<p>Randall then added another try after Fitz Harding made valuable ground close to the Northampton line, with the scrum-half spotting a gap and darting over to make it 29-14.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton refused to go away, though, and Alex Mitchell crossed before Josh Kemeny powered over to reduce the deficit to 34-26.<\/p>\n<p>Saints were then reduced to 14 men when Ion Neculai was shown a yellow card for failing to roll away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-transparent size-full object-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/imgresizer.tntsports.io\/unsafe\/1200x0\/filters:format(jpeg)\/origin-imgresizer.tntsports.io\/2026\/10\/03\/image-b36dccf2-ae0b-4458-ac13-c80c20b5de57.jpeg\" alt=\"picture\" data-testid=\"image-high-res\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Bristol thought Max Pepper had added another try, only for the TMO to spot an earlier knock-on from Kieran Marmion.<\/p>\n<p>The officials then reviewed an incident involving Callum Chick and Williams before Bristol were awarded another penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears kicked to the corner and, after further review, a penalty try was awarded when Rees-Zammit was deemed to have been obstructed as he chased the ball.<\/p>\n<p>That put Bristol 41-26 ahead and ended Northampton&#8217;s hopes of completing another comeback as the Bears held on for an impressive victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL BEARS SEE OFF REIGNING CHAMPIONS TO MAKE IT TWO WINS FROM TWO Tries from Gabriel Oghre, Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791078","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\/791078","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=791078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}