{"id":25346,"date":"2026-02-02T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pwr-gloucester-hartpury-beat-loughborough-to-maintain-perfect-start\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:08:47","slug":"pwr-gloucester-hartpury-beat-loughborough-to-maintain-perfect-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pwr-gloucester-hartpury-beat-loughborough-to-maintain-perfect-start\/","title":{"rendered":"PWR: Gloucester-Hartpury beat Loughborough to maintain perfect start"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Champions Gloucester-Hartpury continued their perfect start to the Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a 45-26 victory over Loughborough Lightning.<\/b><\/p>\n

With the season returning after a six-week winter break, Gloucester-Hartpury made it eight straight wins and have now beaten all of their rivals this season at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n

A Nel Metcalfe hat-trick helped put them 19-7 ahead at the break on Sunday and they extended their advantage in the second half with Kelsey Jones, Georgia Brock, England captain Zoe Stratford and Pip Hendy all crossing.<\/p>\n

The victory leaves them five points clear of nearest rivals Saracens.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Bristol Bears<\/b> ended a five-game losing run with a dramatic 30-29 home win over Sale Sharks.<\/p>\n

Sale led 22-10 at half-time but Bristol gradually cut the gap and a last-gasp penalty from Wales scrum-half Keira Bevan gave them the victory.<\/p>\n

Fourth-placed Exeter Chiefs <\/b>ran in six tries in a 36-0 win over bottom side Leicester Tigers, while Harlequins are third after beating Trailfinders<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Champions Gloucester-Hartpury continued their perfect start to the Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a 45-26 victory over Loughborough Lightning. With the season returning after a six-week winter break, Gloucester-Hartpury made it eight straight wins and have now beaten all of their rivals this season at the first time of asking. A Nel Metcalfe hat-trick helped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25348,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions\/25348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}