Table-topping Gloucester-Hartpury finished 18 points ahead of Bristol, but for a while here it seemed simple maths is not the Bears’ strong point. Dave Ward’s outfit performed like champions in the first half against opponents who defeated them twice during the regular season, but Gloucester-Hartpury overturned a 10-point half-time deficit for their second consecutive PWR title.
The full-back, Emma Sing, scored 16 points – a try, a penalty and four conversions – in a sensational display and Gloucester-Hartpury were crushingly dominant after half-time. The reigning champions had surprisingly been outscored by three tries to one before the break when the England front-row, Hannah Botterman, was in particularly destructive form. Gloucester-Hartpury also shrugged off a controversial TMO decision that denied them an early second-half score.
