Bristol beat Saints for first home win of season

Gallagher Premiership

Bristol (14) 31

Tries: Ibitoye, Ravouvou 2, Batley Cons: MacGinty 4 Pens: MacGinty

Northampton (18) 23

Tries: Hendy, Kemeny, Ramm Cons: Makepeace-Cubitt Pens: Makepeace-Cubitt 2

Bristol clinched their first home win of the season with a scrappy bonus-point victory against a much-changed Northampton side.

George Hendy and Josh Kemeny helped Saints to a 15-0 lead inside 20 minutes, before Bristol scored two quick tries of their own through Kalaveti Ravouvou and Gabriel Ibitoye to crawl back into contention.

Ravouvou’s second try on his first start of the season then gave the Bears a narrow lead, before Joe Batley added their fourth to take the game away from the visitors 10 minutes from time.

James Ramm scored with 60 seconds on the clock but it came to late for Saints to take anything from the game, as they fell to their sixth consecutive Premiership defeat on the road.

More to follow.

Bristol: Lane; Bates, Ravouvou, Janse van Rensburg, Ibitoye; MacGinty, Marmion; Woolmore, Oghre, Lahiff, Dun, Batley, Luatua, B. Grondona, Harding (c).

Replacements: Thacker, Thomas, Kloska, Owen, Heenan, Wolstenholme, Worsley, Elizalde.

Northampton: Hendy; Ramm, Litchfield, Hutchinson, Seabrook; Makepeace-Cubitt, James; West, Langdon, Millar Mills, Mayanavanua, Coles (c), Kemeny, Pearson, Pollock.

Replacements: Wright, Iyogun, Green, Thornbury, Scott-Young, McParland, Savala, Garside.

Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys