England ran in six tries as they accomplished their preparations for the Girls’s Rugby World Cup with a 40-6 win over France in Mont-de-Marsan.
The Pink Roses, who kick off their marketing campaign in opposition to america at Sunderland’s Stadium of Gentle on August 22, had been made to work arduous for a twenty seventh successive victory by a French facet lacking first-choice scrum-half Pauline Bourdon Sansus by way of suspension.
England’s ahead energy proved irresistible through the first half as they established a commanding lead, however having seen France all however reel them in earlier than holding on to win their Six Nations Grand Slam decider in April, they headed for the dressing room at half-time taking nothing without any consideration.
Morwenna Talling offered the of completion to a fourth-minute rolling maul after second-row associate Abbie Ward had secured possession at an early line-out, and hooker Amy Cockayne repeated the trick on the finish of a robust Fifteenth-minute drive with Zoe Harrison including the conversion.
Dealing with errors and imprecision price John Mitchell’s facet additional tries because the French conceded a collection of penalties which finally noticed lock ahead Manae Feleu yellow carded, and though Morgane Bourgeois diminished the deficit with a penalty in her absence, prop Maud Muir touched down from one other rolling maul and Harrison added the extras to make it 19-3 on the break.
Bourgeois kicked a second penalty to capitalise on Teani Feleu’s rampaging early break because the second half acquired underneath manner, however scrum-half Natasha Hunt’s fast considering after her pack had pressured a scrum penalty despatched centre Megan Jones over and Harrison obliged as soon as once more.
France began to throw the ball round, with half-backs Carla Arbez and Alexandra Chambon each making harmful breaks and because the England scrum got here underneath stress, the guests had been starved of significant possession.
Catch and drive did the trick as soon as once more with six minutes remaining for substitute hooker Lark Atkin-Davies to go over, and she or he added a second three minutes later to permit Harrison to take her tally to 10 factors with two extra profitable kicks.
