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Rugby won the Portuguese Cup
The women’s team of Sporting Clube de Coimbra won, this Saturday, AEES Agrária in Caldas da Rainha.
With this trophy, a team coached by Filipe Luís reached a double, joining the Portuguese Cup to the XV National Championship of the Division of Honor. It is also the fifth Portuguese Cup in Sporting CP’s history – the first in 15th-century rugby.
Sporting CP, holder of the hegemony of women’s rugby in Portugal over the last few years, started and got the first rehearsal in the eighth minute through Inês Marques, but the answer didn’t take long: shortly after, Inês Spínola was the author of the rehearsal of the tie for AEES Agrária de Coimbra (5-5).
It was the emblem of Alvalade to dominate, being stronger in the collective aspect and in the physical part, but it was necessary to wait until the last moments of the first part to see another rehearsal. This time it was Beatriz Amaral, after a great effort by the whole team, to finish and take Sporting CP in front by 5-10 at half-time.
In the second half, the best Leoas and Leonor Amaral made it 15-5. In the conversion, Isabel Ozório didn’t make it and increased the difference to 5-17. Once again, AEES Agrária de Coimbra reacted and works to 10-17, leaving everything open.
The score ended up being closed, already in the final ten minutes when Isabel Ozório was accurately closed, already with a 10-pointer-20. Until the final, Sporting CP managed the result and ensured the triumph in the final of the Portuguese Cup.
Another title for a team used to winning and that continues to feed the Sporting Museum.
Sporting CP: Joana Morgado (Tânia Semedo, 50′), Inês Marques, Franciny Amaral, Ana Freire (Sara Balcão, 79′), Margarida Arriaga e Cunha (Catarina Pires, 60′), Sara Silva, Leonor Amaral, Maria Teixeira, Marta Pedro ( Marcela Maximo, 72′), Francisca Baptista [C], Beatriz Teixeira (Maria Bernardo, 79′), Isabel Ozório, Antónia Braga, Joana Silvestre (Carolina Menoita, 79′) and Beatriz Amaral. Not used: Mariana Fonseca and Josefa Gabriel.