Saracens maintained their unbeaten start to the Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a comeback 32-10 bonus-point win over Bristol Bears.
Jess Breach opened the scoring but Bristol responded with two tries through Lark Atkin-Davies and Phoebe Murray.
Saracens scored 27 unanswered points in the second half at Stone X stadium.
The tries after the break came from Marlie Packer, Sophie de Goede, May Campbell and Coreen Grant.
“We got a lot of lessons in the first half, Bristol took it to us,” Saracens head coach Alex Austerberry told TNT Sports.
“We weren’t disciplined. It gave us a reset at half-time, we had clear messaging. We had more energy and more intent, in the second half we were a far better team than we were in the first.”
Saracens are top of the table but Exeter Chiefs remain just three points behind them after a bonus-point 27-19 win against Loughborough Lightning at Franklins Gardens.
It took 13 minutes for the deadlock to be broken when Exeter’s Maisy Allen scored and they were through again after Alex Tessier picked up her own grubber kick.
Loughborough hit back with an Emma Wassell try but it was visitors Exeter who led 12-7 at half-time.
Exeter’s Eilidh Sinclair and DaLeaka Menin’s tries were countered with scores from Loughborough’s Kathryn Treder and a penalty try.
With just three minutes left on the clock Exeter had two players sent to the sin bin but it was the visitors who scored again through Sinclair.
On Friday, Ealing Trailfinders recorded their second win of the season with a narrow 24-22 victory over Sale Sharks.
Defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury will play Harlequins at Twickenham as part of the Big Game double header with Quins’ men’s team on 30 December.
