SUNDERLAND, England :England might have scored almost 70 points in thrashing the United States in Friday's Women's Rugby World Cup opener, but coach John Mitchell warned there was much more to come from his top-ranked team.

England's women lived up to their top billing in an 11-try performance, scoring seven of them after the break to win 69-7 over the U.S. in front of a record crowd at Sunderland's Stadium of Light.

They went over for their first try inside the opening 10 minutes and were comfortably 28-7 ahead at the break, but Mitchell said he asked for more.

"We challenged them around lifting the intensity in the second half, and I thought we lifted it well," he told reporters.

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