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bucs home nations 2010

Home Nations Hockey round-up »

The placings in the Home Nations hockey tournament were decided on a sunny Thursday at Peffermill. The Northern Irish Universities team made it three wins out of three with a sublime 9-0 thrashing over the Welsh side. A goal up inside three minutes, Ph...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: Scotland v Northern Ireland »

Emma Stewart and Philippine Berly both shared the match both as the Northern Irish team strolled to a win against Scotland, who were outplayed in midfield and stopped by a resolute Irish defence who, despite giving away possession under often no pressu...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: England v Wales »

Two goals in five minutes sunk a Welsh team who didn’t help themselves by conceding turnovers too often. English attackers were quick to pounce on those frailties, which Wales should not blame on the overcast conditions and light winds. Welsh kee...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Northern Ireland v England »

Jake Beaumont was the hero for the English side in a match where they were pegged back twice before his late tap-in secured a famous win which boosts their chances of winning the hockey tournament. At one stage Northern Ireland had nine men on the pitc...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Scotland v Wales »

Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland’s Gordon Munro was scripted to take a sixty-seventh minute penalty flick to give the Scots an equaliser. He was the most vocal and skilful of the Scottish players, and helped peg them back from three goa...

Fri 16 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Basketball: Scotland v England »

England needed victory to clinch a third successive Home Nations crown. With their women, who had earlier defeated Scotland to take the women’s championship, watching on, there was an element of pressure on the broad shoulders of the English, who...

Thu 15 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Women's Basketball: Scotland v England »

This game was to decide the women’s Home Nations championship, and both teams came out aggressively. The first quarter was very tight;  Scotland taking the lead at 7-2 with a 5-0 scoring run early on. The game was tied at 14 after five minut...

Thu 15 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Men's Basketball: Scotland v Wales »

Andrew Smith of the University of Edinburgh was a surprise starter for Scotland on Wednesday night, and he made excellent use of his time on court, scoring 8 points to go with six rebounds, three blocks and a steal, while shooting 100% from the floor...

Wed 14 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Women's Basketball: Scotland v Wales »

A routine victory for the Scottish women, behind a balanced offense that saw five players hit double figures, sets up a title clash with England in tomorrow’s match at Heriot-Watt (1:30pm, CSE). Scotland started poorly in this game, though, and l...

Wed 14 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Women's Hockey: Scotland v Wales »

Moments of both magic and tragedy permeated a stunning no-score draw in a game dogged also by whistles by the officials for niggling fouls. These broke up play considerably as players frequently sprinted into contact and hoped the officials would be ki...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Hockey: England v Northern Ireland »

The sun seemed to strengthen the best hockey players from Northern Ireland’s universities, most of whom play for Queen’s Belfast or Ulster University, familiar with each other’s tricks and treats. Together the players united to put fo...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Wales v England »

An exciting final fifteen minutes were an apt close for a very evenly-matched contest in which the silkiest players from Welsh universities held onto their lead despite Alex Simpson’s well-taken brace. Had the English captain Josh Gunnell not bee...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Men's Hockey: Northern Ireland v Scotland »

It could have easily been twelve, such was the Northern Irish dominance. David Forrester and Duncan Birse, who had good seasons for Edinburgh Uni respectively in goal and centre-half with many matches on the same Peffermill turf on which they lost this...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Women's Basketball: Scotland v Northern Ireland »

Scotland, with Sarah O’Brien and Nicola McBrierty of the University of Edinburgh in the starting five, went into their match with Northern Ireland as favourites, and expecting to get their campaign off to a winning start. The victory came in the ...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Women's Basketball: England v Wales »

The women of England got the defence of their Home Nations title off to a great start this morning, with an emphatic victory over an outmatched Welsh side. Behind the 23 points of Ellen Hall, who also grabbed 13 rebounds, the English simply steamroller...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Men's Basketball: Scotland v Northern Ireland »

The power of the Irish front line of Dave Neal and Kevin Foley was simply too much for an undersized Scottish team at Riccarton this afternoon. The duo combined for 67 points and 27 rebounds, upstaging the returning Paul Cummins, back to represent Nort...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Men's Basketball: England v Wales »

Wales came into this match against defending champions, England, missing two important players, and the height of ex-Edinburgh University player, 6’ 9”Duncan Rae, who was suffering from an ankle injury sustained in a training session only y...

Tue 13 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »

Back in the 'burgh »

This week will see many of the finest student-athletes in the United Kingdom descend upon the campuses of the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt, as the BUCS Home Nations rolls into town. Formerly known as the British University Games, this year&...

Mon 12 Apr 2010 by Liam McCabe | Read more »