Emilie Boulard and Joanna Grisez score two tries each
Italy score 12 tries in one-sided win over Brazil
France enjoyed a one-sided 57-10 victory over South Africa at Franklin’s Gardens to take top spot in Women’s Rugby World Cup Pool D, scoring nine tries with two each for Emilie Boulard and Joanna Grisez. They will take on Ireland at Sandy Park in Exeter next Sunday in the last eight.
The scrum-half Pauline Bourdon Sansus earned a second straight player of the match award for orchestrating France’s highest score over the Springbok Women in front of a sellout crowd of 15,000.
On the back of great set-pieces, Sansus’s quick thinking transfixed the South Africans, bringing them to earth after beating Italy last weekend to qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time.
