WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE - ROUND ONE
By LORRAINE MARSDEN and GREG NIXON
LEIGH LEOPARDS.................................................. 42
BARROW RAIDERS................................................ 10
Leigh Sports Village, Sunday
LEIGH got life in Super League off to a winning start as they put nine tries past Barrow.
Hattie Dogus led the way with a hat-trick, while there were two each for Becky Greenfield and Kate Howard.
The league’s newest team, who earned promotion last season at the expense of Featherstone, made their presence felt from the start and when Barrow made an error on a kick-return with just two minutes on the clock, the Leopards regained possession on their own line and worked the ball out to Mackenzie Taylor to touch down in the corner.
Both sides then took some time to settle in to the game, making numerous errors, but with ten minutes gone, Leigh ran it on the last and Dogus went in out wide for her first.