November 20, 2014, by Lee Chrimes

BUCS round-up 19 November 2014

Nottingham were pushed to the limit this week in what proved to be the most testing Wednesday of the BUCS season. However, there were still a number of notable displays from the 23 wins.

Ladies’ Badminton continued their good form from last time out by convincingly beating Durham 1^st 7-1 at Sutton Bonington. The men’s teams also enjoyed a fruitful afternoon, the 1^st and 2^nd teams beating Worcester and Coventry respectively, whilst the 3^rd team came unstuck against Warwick.

There was also joy for Men’s Fencing 1^st team who were victorious over Loughborough 1^st 135-66. Nonetheless, it was away at Aston where the most dramatic action of the afternoon took place as the 2^nd team match went the distance. The scores were level 124 apiece after the final period, only for Aston to sneak a victory by two weapons to one.

Trent seemed to be the theme of the BUCS this week, as a mini derby day took hold of the fixtures. The Men’s Table Tennis 1^st team unfortunately just fell short, but the 2^nd team made up for the defeat with a comfortable 11-6 victory against Trent 2^nd. It was the Women’s sides who enjoyed the greatest success against our rivals; Women’s Football 2^nd XI piled on the misery with a 6-1 win, Women’s Rugby 1^st XV cruised to a 37-7 victory at fortress Highfields and Women’s Netball 4^th team triumphed 41-37.

Netball returned three wins from five games this week; the defeats for the 1^st and 2^nd teams couldn’t dampen the spirits of the other three sides who all won on home soil.

Whilst Hockey endured a tough afternoon (all but two of eleven sides were playing 1^st teams), the Men’s 2^nd XI built upon the Conference Cup success last week with a 12-0 thrashing of Oxford Brookes. In the late kick off at Beeston Hockey Club, the 1^st XI narrowly lost 1-2 to Durham but the 5^th XI had no trouble beating Birmingham City 6-1 at University Park

Men’s Futsal 1^st team recorded the result of the week by trouncing Warwick 1^st 21-2. The 2^nd team fought hard to beat Cranfield 5-3, whilst the 3^rd team could do nothing to avoid a 5-10 defeat to Trent.

Finally, another Nottingham v Nottingham battle took place this Wednesday; however it didn’t quite have the thrills and spills of last week as the Women’s Squash 4^th team beat their 5^th team club members 4-1.

The Green and Gold remain at 4^th in the BUCS standings, with the league points moving on to 1460.

Position and points accurate at time of press

BUCS weekly report by Sebastian Chmielinski

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