Kicking off maybe the most important 12 months in girls’s rugby historical past, the Girls’s Six Nations bought underway this weekend with two fascinating video games on Saturday adopted by a well-known England rout on Sunday.
Here is every thing that occurred on the much-anticipated opening spherical.
TOP STORY: Thus far, so good for Crimson Roses
It is a pivotal 12 months for England, who will host the Girls’s Rugby World Cup later this summer time, and each recreation till then shall be a possible banana pores and skin for John Mitchell’s facet.
Underneath that guise, Sunday’s 38-5 victory in opposition to Italy will go down as a transparent success and set a tone for his or her newest title defence.
There shall be enhancements that Mitchell and his employees can level to. For instance, most of these 38 factors had been scored in an extremely one-sided first half earlier than their momentum floor to a near-halt within the second interval.
Mitchell warned his facet on the finish that they have to not take their locations on the World Cup with no consideration, that everybody should show themselves this 12 months if they’re to win a beginning spot for the match. — Connor O’Halloran
Spherical 1 scores
Eire 15-27 France
France have been the perennial second-best facet on this competitors lately, with 5 straight runners-up finishes. The duty for head coaches Gaëlle Mignot and David Ortiz is to knock England off their perch.
France made powerful work of Eire, who seized benefit of Gabrielle Vernier’s second-half 20-minute crimson card for a excessive sort out and scored two tries, closing the hole to inside two factors with lower than quarter-hour to go.
However France appeared imperious within the ultimate quarter and did sufficient to earn a 27-15 win.
Scotland 24-21 Wales
Scotland bought their match off to a optimistic begin, however they did so in nail-biting trend in opposition to Wales.
Wales took the lead inside 5 minutes, and Scotland needed to work twice as arduous to reel them again in after seeing two tries dominated out by the TMO. The officiating staff had been in motion once more afterward, exhibiting two crimson playing cards — one for Wales’ Georgia Evans, a second yellow, after a excessive sort out and one other to Scotland’s Evie Gallagher for a harmful clearout.
Scotland managed to get the higher of Wales, although. Sarah Bonar, Emma Orr and Leah Bartlett scored tries that helped the hosts to a tough-fought victory.
England 38-5 Italy
England climbed to the highest of the Girls’s Six Nations desk with a convincing win over Italy on the LNER Group Stadium in York.
Coach John Mitchell gave useful taking part in time to a few of his much less skilled gamers together with a brand new look again three of Claudia MacDonald Mia Venner and Emma Sing.
It labored properly from the onset: Venner opened the scoring after three minutes as England rolled ahead with relative ease and Emily Scarratt added a second three minutes later. England went on to attain three extra tries, together with a penalty strive after Italy illegally disrupted a rolling maul.
Finest moments:
Sarah Bern rocks the home
England prop Sarah Bern gave an incredible efficiency on the pitch. She did properly off it, too.
That reference to the followers.🙌
Sarah Bern shared an incredible second with the England followers after their win! pic.twitter.com/7jk4ChUzLT
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) March 23, 2025
Morgane Bourgeois’ pleasant run
France’s glorious efficiency within the ultimate phases was embodied by a marauding run from Morgane Bourgeois, completed off by alternative Emilie Boulard.
🗣 “A strive that may break the hearts of the Irish!”
The 14 gamers of France look to have put a cease to hopes of an Eire comeback.#BBCRugby #SixNationsRugby #IRLFRA pic.twitter.com/eH45veRpNP
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) March 22, 2025
The strive that got here from nowhere
Scotland held a slim lead over Wales heading into the second half when Lisa Thompson kicked a floor ball down the sector. What got here subsequent was sudden, and helped Scotland to a slim win.
Emma Orr quickest to react and Scotland have one other strive! 💪#BBCRugby #SixNations pic.twitter.com/A3n6ZROfix
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) March 22, 2025
Up subsequent in Spherical 2:
France vs. Scotland
When: Saturday, 1 p.m. GMT
The place: Stade Marcel Deflandre, La Rochelle
Wales vs. England
Time: Saturday, 4.45 p.m. GMT
The place: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Italy vs. Eire
Time: Sunday, 3 p.m. BST
The place: Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Parma
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