X-Women earn commanding 58-0 victory over Huskies

Antigonish, NS – The STFX X-Women played to a 58-0 victory over the Saint Mary's Huskies Friday night at STFX Stadium in their home opener.

With the win the X-Women now have a 1-1 record, while the Huskies fall to 0-2 on the season.

Fourth year prop Annie McMullon (Rothesay, NB) opening the scoring for STFX in the ninth minute of play after sustained pressure from the home team. Jill Griffith (Upper Tantallon, NS) converted to give X an early 7-0 lead.

Griffith then converted two more X-Women tries as Katie Douglas (Charlottetown, PE) broke through the Huskies defenders to touch down in the 18^th minute, and prop Emma MacDougall (Halifax, NS) scored two minutes later.

STFX gained momentum and scored three more unconverted tries before the first half expired. Griffith tallied in the 26^th minute to put the white and blue up 26-0, then Katie Murphy (Millville, PE) and Camryn Kleynhans (Durban, SA) punched across the try line in the final five minutes to give STFX a 36-0 halftime lead.

The second half saw the X-Women continue to spread out the scoring as Emma Langley (Hunter River, PE) scored STFX's seventh try of the match nine minutes into the half, bringing the ball in down the wing. The unconverted play gave the X-Women a 41-0 lead.

Maddie Weisshaar (Wilcox, SK) scored for STFX in the 62^nd minute, jumping on a loose ball that had been kicked over the try line.

Both teams substituted several players into the game in the final 15 minutes of play.

Douglas scored her second try of the night in the 72^nd minute after several nice offload passes. It went unconverted as the X-Women took a commanding 51-0 lead.

The Huskies pressured late in the half but could not get on the scoreboard.

McMullon rounded out the STFX scoring with two minutes to play as she scored her second try in the game, and Griffith booted her fourth conversion of the night to close out the 58-0 victory.

With 13 points on the night for STFX, Griffith received Subway player of the game honours.

The X-Women will look ahead to next Saturday, September 24^th when they travel to Wolfville, NS for a 2:00 pm against the Acadia Axewomen.

The Huskies will host the UPEI Panthers on Friday, September 23^rd at 7:00 pm.  

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Recap courtesy Krista McKenna, STFX Sports Information

SCORING SUMMARY

SMU 0-0: 0
StFX 36-22: 58 

First half
StFX – Annie McMullon try (Jill Griffith convert), 9^th minute
STFX – Katie Douglas try (Jill Griffith convert), 18^th minute
STFX – Emma MacDougall try (Jill Griffith convert), 20^th minute
STFX – Jill Griffith try, 26^th minute
STFX – Katie Murphy try, 35^th minute
STFX – Camryn Kleynhans try, 39^th minute

Second half
STFX - Emma Langley try, 49^th minute
STFX – Maddie Weisshaar try, 62^nd minute
STFX – Katie Douglas try, 72^nd minute
STFX – Annie McMullon try (Jill Griffith convert), 78^th minute 

Subway Player of the Game
StFX:  Jill Griffith (Upper Tantallon, NS) 

Legend:
Try: 5 points
Penalty goal: 3 points
Convert: 2 points

Shout out to X-Women Rugby centre Jill Griffith, named Subway Player of the Game with a try and 4 converts in tonight's 58-0 win over SMU! #goxgo #SubwayFuel pic.twitter.com/pdOqvGIU9L

— StFX Athletics (@StFXAthletics) September 16, 2022