There were mixed emotions for three-time rugby Blue Henry
Nwume at Twickenham on Sunday. He was on the bench for London
Wasps during the Heineken Cup Final but was not used. However, he
will have been heartened by the dramatic 27-20 victory over
Toulouse clinched by his side’s Welsh scrum half Rob Howley
with a try at the death. Wasps now move on to face Bath in the
final of the Zurich Premiership at the culmination of a massively
hectic period. Twenty Twenty cricket comes to the Parks for the first time
ever next Friday (4 June). Pembroke play Keble from 1.15 pm, with
Oxford UCCE playing Oxfordshire CCC at 5.00. The event will be
graced with a large degree of razzmatazz, including music, a bar
and a barbeque. Merton-Mansfield FC separated into their respective colleges
to face each other in the annual football grudge match last week.
The poor relations stole the show on Merton’s manner, with
an emphatic 6-3 win. For the visitors, Gareth Davies hit a
hattrick, Onyemachi Njamma bagged a brace, and Neil Wolfson
scored the pick of the lot with a 20-yard screamer past the
helpless Tim Part. Pembroke’s women’s basketball side have been making
superb progress in cuppers, despite the fact that they began
playing only this term. They have scored 137 points and conceded
just 44 in 3 games. In between a 58-6 demolition of Jesus and a
50-8 beating of St Hilda’s on Sunday was the pick of their
games – a closefought 29-28 victory over Wadham. Sunday saw Oxford win the Varsity Kayak Freestyle event, which
involves pulling as many tricks in a kayak as possible whilst
surfing on an artificial river wave, by 32 points to 26. The
Oxford team had won comfortably over Cambridge in the Varsity
White Water Race back in December. Most notable for their
performances are Tom Wolstenholm who lived up to expectations,
with great variety of turns ranging from cartwheels to aerial
blunts. He was clearly deserving in taking first place
comfortably. Jon Fuller also deserves mention for a strong
performance to progress to the final where he finished fifth,
while Alan Rotsey finished third. Nick Smith, Geoff Martin and
Andy Nalty comprised the rest of Oxford’s team.ARCHIVE: 4th week TT 2004
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