LEIGH LEOPARDS 0 LEEDS RHINOS 82
IAN RIGG, Sutton Park, Saturday
RUBY ENRIGHT wasted no time making an impact in her first game since July 2024, scoring a try in the opening minute of this whitewash.
The winger, back after shoulder and muscular injuries, went on to score three of Leeds’ 15 tries.
After that opener, from a Ruby Walker kick, Liv Whitehead scored and Mel Howard kicked the first of her four conversions.
A Lacey Owen double was followed by a fifth try just before the break when Ruby Bruce raced 40 metres to score.
The Leopards made an error at the restart and again Enright scored within a minute of kick-off, after which it turned into a bit of a procession for the visitors.
Lucy Murray scored again and Evie Cousins raced in after a good break before the Rhinos added two more tries in two minutes from Connie Boyd and Cousins, both converted by Tally Bryer to start a perfect kicking record of seven from seven.
A similar quick-fire double saw Ebony Stead and Howard both race in against a tiring defence, and the tidal wave kept coming with Grace Field next over with eleven minutes left.
Five minutes later Enright completed her hat-trick, and in the dying minutes Murray scored her second and Bryer’s goals completed the big win.
LEOPARDS: 23 Albany-D Coates, 2 Toryn Blackwood, 3 Nicole Barnett, 20 Becky Webb, 17 Macy McDermott, 6 Rhianna Burke, 5 Becky Greenfield, 10 Mairead Quinn, 9 Kate Howard, 16 Lucy Johnson, 8 Eleanor Dainty, 11 Emily Baggaley, 13 Storm Cobain. Subs: 14 Abi Gordon, 15 Alice Fisher (not used), 19 Libby Wall, 21 Olivia Hill
RHINOS: 2 Ebony Stead, 1 Ruby Enright, 4 Evie Cousins, 15 Connie Boyd, 5 Liv Whitehead, 6 Mel Howard, 7 Ruby Walker, 17 Grace Short, 9 Keara Bennett, 10 Kaiya Glynn, 11 Lacey Owen, 12 Lucy Murray, 20 Jess Sharp. Subs (all used): 14 Ruby Bruce, 18 Tally Bryer, 19 Grace Field, 24 Paulianne Wambalu
Tries: Enright (1, 41, 74), Whitehead (10), Owen (19, 32), Bruce (38), Murray (46, 77), Cousins (48, 56), Boyd (54), Stead (62), Howard (64), Field (69); Goals: Howard 4/8, Bryer 7/7
SCORING SEQUENCE: 0-4, 0-10, 0-14, 0-20, 0-26; 0-30, 0-36, 0-40, 0-46, 0-52, 0-58, 0-64, 0-70, 0-76, 0-82
Half-time: 0-26