TRIES GALORE ON RECORD-BREAKING WEEKEND IN ALLIANZ PREMIERSHIP WOMEN'S RUGBY

Saracens continued their perfect start to the Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby after overcoming Sale Sharks in Round 7, to stay three points clear at the top of the table.**

• For a full review of Round 7, click here
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Elsewhere, Gloucester-Hartpury continued their great start to the season with victory over Loughborough Lightning.

At Mattioli Woods Welford Road, Leicester Tigers came close to their first win of the season as Harlequins edged a pulsating encounter.

On Sunday, Exeter Chiefs ensured the gap to pace-setters Saracens remained just three points with a bonus-point victory over Trailfinders.

Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby has made an entertaining start to the season with an average of 8.46 tries and 53.54 points per game.

The highlights from last weekend include:

• Saracens’ 66-point margin of victory against Sale Sharks (69-3) was the largest by any team in an Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby game this season, overtaking the previous high of 43 set by Bristol on MD1 and equalled by Saracens themselves on MD5.
• Saracens have now won each of their last 18 regular season Premiership Women’s Rugby matches, the longest active streak of any side in the league and Saracens’ longest such run since winning 31 in a row between October 2018 and December 2020, a run which was broken by Exeter Chiefs, who they face next weekend.
• Harlequins beat 40 defenders against Leicester Tigers, the first time they have beaten 40+ defenders in a Premiership Women’s Rugby game this season, becoming just the fourth team to do so after Gloucester-Hartpury, Bristol Bears and Saracens (twice).
• Saracens and Exeter Chiefs (both 12/12) became just the second and third sides to win 100% of their lineouts in a Premiership Women’s Rugby match this season after Leicester Tigers did so against Saracens on MD5 (4/4).
• Exeter Chiefs hooker Cliodhna Moloney found a teammate with each of her 11 lineout throws against Trailfinders, the most by any player to maintain a 100% lineout success rate in a Premiership Women’s Rugby match this season.
• Trailfinders’ Carys Cox beat nine defenders against Exeter Chiefs despite not starting the match and playing just 40 minutes – it was the most defenders beaten by a replacement in a Premiership Women’s Rugby game this season and the most by any player in MD7 overall.
• Saracens’ Paige Farries scored three tries against Sale Sharks, just the second hat-trick in this season’s Premiership Women’s Rugby, after Exeter Chiefs’ Merryn Doidge, who crossed the line three times against Harlequins on MD4.
• Saracens’ Sophie de Goede scored 19 points against Sale Sharks, the most by any player in a single Premiership Women’s Rugby game this season – de Goede is also the top points scorer overall in the league this term (64).
• Gloucester-Hartpury’s Emma Sing was successful from all six of her conversion attempts against Loughborough Lightning, the most place kick attempts by any player to maintain a 100% record in a Premiership Women’s Rugby game this season.

Click here for the full Opta Review of Round 7 of Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby.