Unable to capitalise on their form from two earlier-season league victories over Hartpury, the Blue and Gold of the University of Bath slipped to BUCS Super Rugby semi-final despair in Gloucestershire on Wednesday evening. In truth the 37-27 victory for Hartpury, playing at home, was deserved and founded largely on a consummate first-half in which their battling attack got the upper hand. The Gloucester-based player-scholars had also done their defensive homework allowing them to repel...
Ten-try Team Bath men’s 1st XV sent out a statement to their BUCS Super Rugby Championship rivals as they clinically dispatched Durham 64-29 to reach the semi-finals for a third successive year. A large and vocal crowd at the University of Bath Sports Training Village had plenty to cheer as the Fulkers-sponsored Blue & Gold, who are also supported by MJ Church, produced arguably their best all-round team performance of the season so far. The...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV stretched their winning run to five games as they secured their best-ever BUCS Super Rugby league finish with a hard-fought victory over Loughborough at a wet and windy University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight. All of the points came in the first half as the Blue & Gold, who were watched by representatives of sponsors Fulkers and MJ Church, came from behind to win 19-5 thanks to tries from...
In-form Team Bath men’s 1st XV produced another magnificent performance to win at table-topping Exeter University this afternoon and ensure the BUCS Super Rugby title race would go into the final week of the season. The 34-21 success at Topsham Sports Ground saw the Fulkers-sponsored Blue & Gold, who are also supported by MJ Church, complete a first league double over Exeter and close to within four points of their South West rivals in the...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV head to Exeter University this Wednesday having become the BUCS Super Rugby league leaders’ nearest challengers with an epic team performance and victory against Northumbria on Friday. The Blue & Gold, sponsored by Fulkers and supported by MJ Church, stretched their winning run to three game In fantastic style as they overturned a 36-20 deficit to secure a 44-36 victory at Newcastle Falcons’ Kingston Park ground, moving up to second...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV scored seven tries, six of them during a dominant second half, as they beat Cardiff University 53-17 in the first BUCS Super Rugby game of 2019 at the University of Bath. The Fulkers-sponsored Blue & Gold, who are also supported by MJ Church, had lost 28-24 when the two teams met at the end of January and led by just one point after an evenly-matched first half. However, Team Bath...
A dominant Team Bath men’s 1st XV claimed another landmark win on the road as they defeated high-fliers Cardiff Met away for the first time in BUCS Super Rugby on Wednesday. The Blue & Gold, sponsored by Fulkers and MJ Church, bounced back from last week's disappointing Cardiff University defeat in fantastic style as they recorded a 23-7 victory over their Varsity rivals. Team Bath were first to get on the scoreboard, at the 20-minute mark, through...
There was disappointment for Team Bath men’s 1st XV in their first BUCS Super Rugby game of 2019 as they were beaten 28-24 by promoted Cardiff University on Wednesday. The home team went into the match at the foot of the table but have been improving as the season progresses and took the lead with a converted try which was cancelled out in kind by Bath before half-time. Fulkers-sponsored Team Bath then scored from a...
Members of the University of Bath men’s rugby squad have had chance to share the pitch with current England players and learn from a decorated international and Premiership coach this week. The Blue & Gold were invited to Bisham Abbey to take part in a semi-contact team training forwards and backs session with the England Women’s squad as they prepare for the 2019 Six Nations, which starts with a visit to Ireland on Friday, February...
One historic Olympic title defence, two World crowns, three Commonwealth gold medals and a multitude of other national and international medals added up to another outstanding year of sport at the University of Bath in 2018. The University’s unique push-start track, the only one of its kind in the UK, became the focus of national attention in February when three athletes who train on it with British Skeleton won medals for Team GB at the...
