Sports in Brief

This weeks’ Highlights

by Varsity Sport

Friday November 13 2009, 4:00am

Modern Pentathlon

CUMPC had a flying start to the year with victory in the Novice Varsity match, beating Oxford 2464 – 2228. Cambridge, the hosts, posted the top 4 scores with Brad Dixon and Laura Plant, both experienced pentathletes, closely followed by novices Matt Commin and Hennie Dixon.

Athletics

Cambridge ran out comfortable winners in the annual Freshers’ Varsity at Wilberforce Road as a poor Oxford ceded to a promising Cambridge squad. Lizzie Thompson took home a fair amount of silverware, winning the 400m and 100m hurdles, 200m sprint and high jump. Christian Roberts took home the prize for the men’s 400m hurdles, as did Tom Elton in the discus. The final score in the men’s competition was 114-76, the girls equally impressive with a tally of 110-75.

Queens’ Ergs

There were victories for the men of Fitzwilliam and the women of Anglia Ruskin in Queens’ Ergs on Tuesday night. The ever-improving Fitz team, boosted in recent years by a redesigned boathouse, defiantly withheld challenges from Wolfson, Churchill and John’s. Meanwhile, the Catz women let slip a strong advantage to allow ARU to clinch the title.

Rugby Union

In their first away match of the season, the Blues lost 38-20 to London Scottish. Missed opportunities and a failure to execute were what separated the two sides in a frustrating defeat for Cambridge, who will look to extend occasional patches of promising play to the full 80 minutes in time for the Varsity match.

Absolutely nothing to do with Cambridge

A tense weekend of fixtures saw Sabadell Femení head to the top of the ‘Divisió d’honor’ of the Catalan FA’s women’s indoor 5-a-side football tournament as they overcame close rivals Les Corts UBAE. In the men’s league, Askaxu Tril.ler, named after Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, were the first and only team to take all three points on the opening day.

Finally, Varsity is glad to announce that communicative relations have been reestablished with Real Santander. Following last week’s report on the Colombian football club’s secrecy, the misunderstanding has been resolved. Full reports from Àlvaro Gómez Hurtado will resume next week.

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