SAINTS RECOVER TO SHARE SPOILS
LORRAINE MARSDENTotally Wicked Stadium, Saturday
ST HELENS 20
LEEDS RHINOS 20
ANYONE prepared to write Leeds off this season, given the amount of changes they have seen this year, will surely be thinking again as the showed guts and determination to bounce back from last weekend’s Challenge Cup semi-final drubbing by sharing the spoils with St Helens.
The Rhinos dominated for much of the game and will but just couldn’t see it out to the end as Saints forward Vicky Whitfield scored at the death to earn last year’s Grand Finalists a point.
Still feeling the effects of the heavy semi-final defeat to Wigan seven days earlier, Leeds coach Lois Forsell was forced to move Bethan Dainton to the centre in place of Connie Boyd, with Ella Donnelly handed a start in the pack in the absence of Bella Sykes.