BUCS Weekly sports round up: Men’s Lacrosse & Basketball show their class
Round six of BUCS fell on the week of the Varsity photoshoot and the Men’s Lacrosse team registered a big win.
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Massive good luck to all teams today! Bring home the Ws ??#TeamChristChurch pic.twitter.com/EDCCcJz0r5
— Christ Church SU (@christchurchsu) November 15, 2017
The SU’s message of support to the sports teams.
Men’s Lacrosse
The Men showed their grit and determination by winning 12-3 against Imperial’s second team.
After the game Giorgio Michael said: “It was a tough fought game at the beginning, but our class started to show as the game progressed.
“Some really good lacrosse being put together and huge performance all over the pitch from current and freshers, big win.”
Good luck to all of the #TeamChristChurch teams today in their BUCS games ?? pic.twitter.com/UXrEmu8zEo
— CCCU Men’s Lacrosse (@Canterburylax) 15 November 2017
Men’s Cricket
On Sunday Men’s Cricket won three of their four fixtures.
They beat Sturry by five wickets, Street End by 43 runs and Canterbury second team by four wickets.
The loss came against Harbledown, who won by 15 runs.
American Football
American Football won on Sunday against Cambridge 26-0.
Mens Basketball
The Men remain undefeated in 4 games in the league after they won by 68-63 vs UEL.
Women’s Basketball
The women’s basketball team were motivated and determined to win, as they wanted to recover from their previous loss vs City.
It was important for them to win to keep them in the game as UCL won both of their previous fixtures.
They started strong in the game winning the 1st quarter 23 – 15.
However, in the second and third quarter City fought back bringing the margin to five points difference.
In the last quarter they stayed strong and focused which led us to win 68 – 61.
After the game Eftychia Panayiotou said: “Great performance by Zita Mendes (Sport Scholar) who scored 28 points and Marie Haacke who scored 17 points.”
Men’s Tennis
Men’s tennis lost 10-2 to UCL second team.
Tom Branch said: “It was a tough match.
“Unfortunately we didn’t get the win, but everyone put in a great effort so I can’t be too disappointed.”
Swimming
Swimming had their BUCS competition at the weekend, they got a total of 27 personal best’s and some impressive rankings from individuals and as a team.
Men’s Football
The second team beat Medway’s first team by 3-0.
The third team lost 2-0 to Universities at Medway second team.
The fourth team drew 1-1 in a tough game with Essex’s fourth team.
Women’s Football
There were 20 goals in both of the Women’s football games this week.
The first team thrashed Kings by 7-0.
While the second team lost 10-3 to Goldsmiths.
Watch our photoshoot video here.
Men’s Rugby
The first team beat Portsmouth Men’s second team 21-12.
Men’s rugby second team beat Queen Mary third team by 19-0.
The third team won 29-12.
Men’s Badminton
The Men’s Badminton firsts lost 5-3 to King College London third team.
Women’s Hockey
Another strong performance by the Hockey girls first team saw them win 4-1 against Imperial.
Hockey’s second team lost 9-1 to Royal Veterinary College second team.
Despite the score, us 2s could not be happier to have scored our first goal this season! YESSSSSS ?? Shout out to Katie Mc, first game as a forward and a goal to round it off! Well deserved MOM! ???? pic.twitter.com/BDS10Mecfk
— C4 Women’s Hockey (@C4WomensHockey) 15 November 2017
Netball
The second team lost 42-37.
The third team won 28-23 against Art London’s second team.
Men’s Volleyball
The Men lost by 3-0 to CUL
Women’s Volleyball
Women’s Volleyball lost to London Imperial 3-0
Futsal
The Futsal team won 7-2.
