Women’s Rugby World Cup Roundup: France Blitz South Africa To Set Up Ireland Quarter-final

France enjoyed a one-sided 57-10 triumph complete South Africa astatine Franklin’s Gardens to return apical spot successful Women’s Rugby World Cup Pool D, scoring 9 tries pinch 2 each for Emilie Boulard and Joanna Grisez. They will return connected Ireland astatine Sandy Park successful Exeter adjacent Sunday successful nan past eight.

The scrum-half Pauline Bourdon Sansus earned a 2nd consecutive subordinate of nan lucifer grant for orchestrating France’s highest people complete nan Springbok Women successful beforehand of a sellout crowd of 15,000.

On nan backmost of awesome set-pieces, Sansus’s speedy reasoning transfixed nan South Africans, bringing them to world aft beating Italy past play to suffice for nan quarter-finals for nan first time.

South Africa were not helped by Chumisa Qawe’s head-on-head tackle of France’s Marine Ménager. Qawe’s yellowish paper was upgraded to a 20-minute red. By nan clip it was 15 versus 15, France accrued nan people from 12-3 to 31-3.

“We really wanted to show really large we are connected defence and fto spell successful attack, person nosy and play nan rugby we for illustration to play,” nan France co-captain Manaé Feleu said. “The girls had a batch of fun.”

South Africa were consoled by a 50-meter solo effort by Nadine Roos astatine nan death.

Italy’s Vittoria Ostuni Minuzzi claimed a hat-trick of tries arsenic her broadside proved overmuch excessively beardown for World Cup newcomers Brazil, winning 64-3 astatine Northampton to declare 3rd spot successful Pool D. Italy surpassed their erstwhile highest World Cup people pinch nan 12-try romp and successful nan process upheld their grounds of claiming astatine slightest 1 triumph successful each World Cup appearance.

World Cup newcomers Brazil struggled to grip Italy’s powerfulness and speed. Italy’s Ostuni Minuzzi and Francesca Granzotto some scored hat-tricks, and replacement backmost Gaia Buso bagged a precocious double while Brazil was down to 14 women. Lock Sofia Stefan, who celebrated her 100th Italy trial past weekend, scored nan past try.