Bath Rugby’s Connor Treacey skippered England U20 from number 8, and clubmate Sam Winters was on the bench, as the men in white made a winning start to their U20 Six Nations campaign.
There is still time to buy tickets for England U20’s clash with their Ireland counterparts here at The Rec in Bath. Skippered by Bath Rugby’s Connor Treacey, England U20 beat Wales U20 in Northampton on Friday 6th February | Photo © Richard Briggs
England secured a thrilling 19-16 comeback win over Wales at the cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday 6th February.
The hosts recovered from a 16-point deficit to emerge victorious at the Northampton venue thanks to second-half tries from Sonny Tonga’uiha, Jimmy Staples and Victor Worsnip, having finished the game with 14 players following a Luke Davidson red card.
Andy Titterrell’s men now face Scotland at Hive Stadium in Round 2 on Friday 13th February (7.15pm) before hosting Ireland at The Rec in Bath on Friday 20th February (7.45pm).
Treacey will skipper England U20 for the second time when they take on the Scots. Winters has also been named in the starting XV, with Bath’s Tyler Offiah among the replacements.
The match in Edinburgh will be streamed live on BBC iPlayer.
England U20 squad to face Scotland:
Starting XV: 1 Oliver Scola (Northampton Saints), 2 Jimmy Staples (Harlequins), 3 Sonny Tonga’uiha (Northampton Saints), 4 Elliot Williams (Harlequins), 5 Patrick Hogg (Sale Sharks), 6 Aiden Ainsworth-Cave (Northampton Saints), 7 Seb Kelly (Sale Sharks), 8 Connor Treacey (Bath), 9 Lucas Friday (Harlequins), 10 Finn Keylock (Saracens), 11 George Pearson (Leicester Tigers), 12 Victor Worsnip (Bristol Bears), 13 Nick Lilley (Exeter Chiefs), 14 Sam Winters (Bath), 15 James Pater (Northampton Saints).
Replacements: 16 Kealan Freeman-Price (Gloucester Rugby), 17 Oliver Spencer (Sale Sharks), 18 Harry Wright (Gloucester Rugby), 19 Freddie Ogden-Metherell (Gloucester Rugby), 20 George Marsh (Leicester Tigers), 21 Asa Stewart-Harris (Saracens), 22 Will Knight (Gloucester Rugby), 23 Tyler Offiah (Bath).
England U20 warmed up for competitive action by losing 45-17 to Bath United at The Rec on Saturday 24th January.
But they will be back in Somerset next week – and tickets for the England-Ireland clash at The Rec are still available here.
The Blue, Black & White’s under-18s were 33-24 winners over Northampton at Shelford RFC in Round 8 of the PREM’s Next Gen academy league on Saturday 7th February.
Bath top the table with an unbeaten record after completing their group-stage games.
They are through to Finals Day, which will be staged at Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, on Sunday 22nd February.
All of Finals Day’s six matches will be streamed live on PREM Rugby’s YouTube channel.
Bath outscored Northampton by five tries and four conversions to four tries and two conversions.
However, the hosts dominated possession (56%) and territory (53%) and gained 661 metres in attack, the Blue, Black & White gaining 398 metres.
Bath starting XV: 1 Henry Veale, 2 Malachi Randolph, 3 Ned Cartwright, 4 Henry Ball, 5 Louis Mortimore, 6 Alex Yeasbley, 7 Harry Hellier, 8 Georgia Faosiliva, 9 Oscar Harrison, 10 Max Hooper, 11 Stan Walsh, 12 Declan Treacey, 13 Aston Barrington-Hibbert, 14 Tom Meredith, 15 Cynyr MacRae.
Bath replacements: 16 Logan Jarvie, 17 Theo Lewis-Zdybel, 18 Sid Moore, 19 Filippo Hurrell, 20 Taotafa Faosiliva, 21 Milo Powell, 22 Cade Comer, 23 Ryan Carr.
The University of Bath scored eight tries as they overpowered their Cardiff counterparts in a British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Super Rugby Round 15 encounter on Wednesday 11th February.
James Beverley converted all the scores as Bath maintained their title challenge with a 56-26 win – their eighth consecutive triumph – at the Sports Training Village.
Bath started that run of victories with a 77-14 success in November’s reverse fixture – and they produced another clinical performance at home on their artificial pitch to keep the pressure on table-toppers Loughborough.
Bath and Loughborough are both unbeaten but the Midlanders lead the way by one point from the second-placed Somerset side.
The match against Cardiff was as good as over at half-time, with Louis Bouverie, Jack Harrison, Max Pearce, Harry Walker and Rocky Prowse touching down in the first period and Beverely majoring all five scores for a 35-12 advantage.
Henry Mountford’s try and another Beverley conversion extended the lead early in the second half.
Cardiff reduced the arrears to 42-26 with a pair of converted touchdowns in the space of seven minutes.
However, any hopes of a serious comeback by the Welsh outfit were dispelled just after the hour when Harrison – fresh from making his Bath Rugby senior debut in their PREM Rugby Cup victory over Sale Sharks on Sunday 8th February – grabbed his second try of the evening,
Beverley added the extras and completed a perfect evening from the tee when he converted replacement Ollie Critchley’s try two minutes from time.
University of Bath’s next match is away to Swansea on Wednesday 25th February.
Thereafter Bath will entertain Loughborough in Round 17 in their final home game on Wednesday 4th March and then go to Durham a week later.
The clash with Loughborough will kick-off at 6.30pm – and admission for spectators is free.
