{"id":275339,"date":"2025-07-19T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275339\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:05:20","slug":"womens-super-league-st-helens-80-0-leigh-leopards-saints-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275339\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Super League: St Helens 80-0 Leigh Leopards &#8211; Saints go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Luci McColm scored 28 points as St Helens inflicted Leigh Leopards&#8217; heaviest defeat with an 80-0 thumping to go top of the Women&#8217;s Super League table.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Extending their undefeated start to eight games, Saints scored 15 tries to leapfrog Wigan, although the Warriors could reclaim top spot when they face winless bottom club Warrington Wolves on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McColm added 10 conversions to two tries of her own as newly promoted Leigh were swept aside in the first meeting between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dani McGifford caused the early damage for Saints with two of her three tries in the opening 12 minutes, punctuated by the first of Rachael Woosey&#8217;s double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries from Darcy Stott, Beri Salihi and Hollie Bawden made it 30-0 at half-time and there was no relief for the Leopards after the break as McColm&#8217;s double, and one from Georgia Sutherland kept the scoreboard ticking over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGifford completed her hat-trick to make it 10 for the season and move with one try of leaders Amelia Brown, of Huddersfield, and Wigan pair Eva Hunter and Grace Banks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Mottershead and captain Jodie Cunningham got in on the scoring, before Phoebe Hook added two more in the space of two minutes, while Woosey claimed her second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luci McColm scored 28 points as St Helens inflicted Leigh Leopards&#8217; heaviest defeat with an 80-0 thumping to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881227843658142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}