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Exeposé week twenty two
BUCS Cup Final 2012
The Exeter pairing ran away to a 21-5 win, the only thing that could have stopped them was the sports hall heater fans interrupting play.
“The Exeter pairing ran away to a 21-5 win”
The two doubles pairs had been untroubled all season and this upturn brought out some much better play in the next sets as Tom and Harry went on to win their second match in two sets, as
the Southampton 2nd doubles struggled to adapt to their extremely aggressive power plays.
“With this convincing 6-2 semi-final win, the men’s 1st team look on to their Cup Final in Glamorgan”
The last game of the day fell to Muir and Ng, with Ng struggling with a shoulder injury, they were playing with control to tame the explosive Southampton
pairing to level the last match at 1-1. Compensating for injury the Exeter pair were unable to create any match winning opportunities and lost the final end 2118. The Southampton 1st pair could walk away heads held high winning the only two matches for their team. With this convincing 6-2 semi-final win, the Men’s 1st team look on to their Cup Final in Glamorgan and their almost guaranteed promotion in the league, hoping to capitalise on what could well be the perfect season, should they come back with BUCS Gold on the 21st March.
impress in BUCS eventful year. They came 2nd in their league and though this is not enough to qualify, the team would like to congratulate Imogen McMurray who qualified as an individual and so will compete in the regionals. She managed to finish in the top eight in three out of four of the competitions which is an amazing achievement. The team faced tough competition in Bristol whose team contains riders who compete at an international level, and Exeter’s 2nds were on their heels and finished well in the individual rankings. Team member and friendlies co-coordinator Victoria Fenny, says that “Bristol’s home competition was probably the most
eventful competition in BUCS history, with eight people falling off, and two horses going lame in the process.”
“The friendly B team also won their competition in Plymouth last week, taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd place individually”
The friendly teams also had a brilliant season that everyone should certainly be proud of. The A team, has won every single one of their competitions so far and
Photos: Josh Irwandi
also took the first four individual places at Exeter’s home competition which is an overwhelming achievement. Exeter even beat Plymouth’s BUCS 3rd teams at Plymouth’s home competition. Friendlies co-ordinator Phoebe Thomas says: “They are all a standard above the other teams.” The friendly B team also won their competition in Plymouth last week, and also took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place individually. The riding committee are extremely proud of the teams’ achievements this season and would like to congratulate each and every team member for their commitment and success.
Crossword
No. 32 by Raucous
Across 1. & 2. Down. Fishy stand-up comedian? (7,7) 4. & 22. Across. Angling Chess Grand Master? (5,7) 7. First name linking French composer, French war PM and French early filmmaker (7) 9. Put on a pedestal (5) 10. 1978 UK winter, derived from Richard III (10) 11. To act indecipherably (13) 14. Academic unfaithfulness (10) 18. Largest artery (5) 19. Label for Oliver Reed, George Best and Withnail? (7) 21. Medieval weapon (5) 22. See 4. Across.
Sport
Down 1. Sport credited to William Webb Ellis? (5) 2. See 1. Across. 3. Regret a French street (3) 4. The Office boss (5) 5. A 19. Across. may avoid this, except for Withnail (7) 6. Yay! I’ll attend this Connecticut university (4) 8. Pepys practised this (9) 12. Home to Sir Toby Belch (7) 13. Used As poison (7) 15. Monty Python and Indiana Jones searched for it (5) 16. Position held by 12 Angry Men (5) 17. Consequence of being a heavy 19. Across? (4) 20. Non-unionised emerald isle acronym (3)
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