Brilliant Bears battle for comeback triumph

By GEORGE WEST
Bristol Bears… 18
L’boro Light… 14

Late try: Poppy Leitch

BRISTOL Bears women came back in dramatic fashion to beat Loughborough Lightning at Shaftesbury Park.
Lightning started the brighter of the two sides and they went ahead on ten minutes, Katy Daley- McLean showing some fine footwork to dance through a gap in the Bears defence and crash over the chalk, before converting her own score.
Bears looked for a response and began to apply some pressure of their own, the hosts working their way into the 22 and their perseverance was rewarded with a penalty,...

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