Cambridge ……8 Oxford …………….5
CAMBRIDGE'S women won their third Varsity match in a row thanks to Coreen Grant's fine 77thminute solo try.
The centre, who represents Saracens at club level, sliced through the Oxford midfield from a scrum before stepping off her right foot to beat two more scrambling defenders and score from 45 metres.
It saw the Light Blues repeat their 8-5 victory from last year, though it had looked unlikely as they trailed for much of the game to a close-range try from Jessica Abele – who last year was a replacement for Cambridge.
“We'd been behind the whole game but knew we had more to give,” said Grant, a former Scotland U20 international.
“They'd been really good at keeping us on the back foot.
“I'd quite like to watch the try back– it'll stand out for a long time as a special memory.” Oxford still lead the alltime standings, winning 19 women's Varsity matches to Cambridge's 14.
TEAMS
OXFORD WOMEN: Hurton; Holmes, D'Cruz, Jenkins, Potts; Metcalfe-Jones, Johnson; Ellender (c), Bidgood, Abele, Collis, Schmidt, Clark, Haste, Cooper
Replacements: James, Opara, Haywood, Arik, Cohen, Nunn, Carter, Hindson
CAMBRIDGE WOMEN: Vandersluis; Samuel, Grant, Nicholls, Halcrow; Clark, Marks; Bleehan, Pierce, Nunez-Mulder, Scheeman, Gregory, J Shuttleworth, F Shuttleworth (c), Scowen
Replacements: Manser, Elgar, Hicks, Heemskerk, Prowling, Atherton, McLoughlin, Patterson
Referee: Laura Pettingale
