Gloucester-Hartpury 34-19 Exeter Chiefs: Cherry and Whites win Premier 15s at 'Queensholm'

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Gloucester-Hartpury: (17) 34
Tries: K Jones, Lund, Beckett, Penalty try, Neumann Pens: Sing Cons: Sing 2
Exeter Chiefs: (7) 19
Tries: Tuttosi, McGoverne, Jeffries Cons: McGoverne, Cantorna

Gloucester-Hartpury overcame Exeter Chiefs 34-19 to go Premier 15s champions for the archetypal time.

Tries from Kelsey Jones, Rachel Lund and Sarah Beckett gave Gloucester-Hartpury a 17-7 half-time lead, with Emily Tuttosi scoring for Exeter.

A punishment effort aft Claudia MacDonald slapped the shot distant from information extended the Cherry and Whites' lead.

Liv McGoverne's people gave Exeter anticipation but Lisa Neumann strolled implicit to corroborate Gloucester-Hartpury's win.

Ebony Jeffries touched down with a precocious consolation for the visitors but it was the Cherry and Whites who celebrated astatine the last whistle.

Sean Lynn's side, who finished apical of the league successful the regular season, triumphed successful beforehand of a grounds assemblage for the showpiece of 9,668 - successful what was the archetypal last played by 2 teams from extracurricular London.

Gloucester's Kingsholm Stadium, chosen arsenic the venue during the campaign, was rebranded arsenic 'Queensholm' for the week to people the juncture and the lucifer much than lived up to expectations, contempt the blistery and humid conditions.

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Line-ups

Gloucester-Hartpury: Sing; Rugman, Lund, Heard, Venner; George, Hunt (co-capt); Muir, Kelsey Jones, Delgado, Monaghan, Aldcroft (co-capt), Matthews, Lewis, Beckett.

Replacements: Powell, Buggy, Tuipulotu, Learned, Neve Jones, Blackburn, Bridger, Neumann.

Exeter: Doidge; Sinclair, Zackary, Cantorna, MacDonald; McGoverne, Robinson; Rogers, Tuttosi, Menin, Fryday, Leitch (capt), McMahon, Allen, Johnson.

Replacements: Moloney, Turani, Jacoby, Fleming, Jeffries, McDonald, Wilkins, Buchanan.

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