Gloucester-Hartpury...... 24pts
Tries: K Jones 4, 39, 43; Sing 64
Conversions: Sing 44, 65
Saracens .............................15pts
Tries: Campbell 17, Field 58, Grant 79
KELSEY Jones saw the best and worst of things as she scored a hat-trick but also saw red as Gloucester-Hartpury sealed victory to go top of the table.
Player of the match, second row Sam Monaghan, believed her side had put in a performance to be proud of.
“We knew we needed to bring the fight and the physicality this week and we did that from minute 1-80,” she said. “The support has been unbelievable and to hear The Shed cheering us on was brilliant. We wanted to concentrate on ourselves and find a perfor mance that we haven’t found in the last few games.”
In a heavyweight clash between the league’s two unbeaten sides, Gloucester-Hartpury started at a rate of knots, as they pounced on handling errors from Saracens to cross early through Jones.
Saracens are too good a side not to come back into it though and they came close on several occasions, as they were held up over the line twice, with Sydney Gregson also going close.
Gloucester’s penalty count was continuing to rise, with Sisilia Tuipu lotu seeing yellow after the referee ran out of patience.
After yet another held up score, Sarries finally managed to get themselves level, as May Campbell crashed over from the back of a maul.
Gloucester continued to dominate and put the pressure on, with Poppy Cleall proving her side’s saviour, with two crucial interventions to deny the hosts a second score.
The pressure continued to mount though, with Cleall then seeing yellow for collapsing a maul right at the end of the half, before Jones bagged her second right on the half-time whistle, to see her side take a lead into the break.
Jones was at it again s
