Highlights: USA Falcons vs WPL Selects

The USA Falcons were 44-5 winners over the Women’s Premier League Selects at the Colorado School of Mines on Saturday. It featured the best of the USA’s domestic talent vying for potential spots on this year’s Rugby World Cup roster. A live stream was not provided but highlights from the match can be seen below.

Kayla Lawson led the way for the Falcons with a first half hat-trick, supported by a brace from captain Kathryn Johnson. Kaitlyn Broughton added one try with five kicks coming from the boot of Kristin Bitter and one from McKenzie Hawkins. The only selects score of the match was a try to Bailey Johnson.

The Women’s Premier League is due to kick off on April 9th for a 10-week season, with Championships coming in June. Eagles coach Rob Cain has concluded his spring assemblies and will now turn his focus to the Pacific Four series to be played this summer prior to October’s World Cup.

 

SCORING

FALCONS 44
Tries – K. Johnson 2, K. Lawson 3, K. Broughton
Cons – K. Bitter 3, M. Hawkins
Pens – K. Bitter 2

SELECTS 5
Tries – B. Johnson

 

TEAMS

USA FALCONS
1 Erica Jarrell, 2 Saher Hamdan, 3 Sam Luther, 4 Stacey Bridges, 5 Evi Ashenbrucker, 6 Rachel Ehrecke, 7 Elizabeth Cairns, 8 Kathryn Johnson (capt.), 9 Shelby Lin, 22 Kristin Bitter, 11 Emily Henrich, 12 Amy Talei-Bonte, 13 Meya Bizer, 14 Kayla Lawson, 15 McKenzie Hawkins

Replacements: 16 Kathryn Treder, 17 Yeja Dunn, 18 Jett Hayward, 19 Emerson Allen, 20 Kelsie O’Brien, 21 Kaitlyn Broughton

WPL SELECTS
Abby Vogel, Amanda Schweitzer, Bailey Johnson, Bridget Kahele, Caera Lafferty, Claire Phelan, Cortney Kuehl, Elona Williams, Hope Cooper, Julia Buescher, Julie Tordonato, Kadie Sanford, Katrina Anderson, Kristen Shalosky, Kristen Siano, Lisa Jackson, Madison Slaught, Naomi Carrillo, Nichole Wanamaker, Paige Stathopoulos, Samantha Sullivan, Sophia Pyrz, Tiffany Tate