Six tries by Canada fullback Julia Schell led three try hat tricks in the Women’s Rugby World Cup on Saturday.
Schell scored all six in a row in 22 minutes in the second half as Canada hammered Fiji 65-7 in York.
Winger Francesca McGhie dotted down three for Scotland to beat Wales 38-8 in their make-or-break pool match in Manchester.
In the first match of the Manchester doubleheader, winger Desiree Miller bagged three of Australia’s 11 tries as Samoa was blanked 73-0.
France won the last and cagiest match of the day, beating neighbor Italy 24-0 in Exeter.
But the day’s individual highlight was Schell, whose output tied for the second most tries in a World Cup match, beside the six by Krista McFarren of the U.S. against Sweden in 1994. The record was eight by Portia Woodman-Wickliffe o