MATCH REPORT: Calvisano 5 Bath Rugby 39
Horacio Agulla grabbed a hat-trick of tries as Bath Rugby made it four bonus-point wins out of four to stay on course for top-seeing in the Amlin Challenge Cup.
The Pool 4 leaders went into the game on the back of a 67-11 hammering of the Italian side at The Rec a week previously and wasted little time in going ahead, with Simon Taylor touching down inside two minutes.
Former Leicester wing Agulla added two more tries, while a score from Tom Biggs and a brace of Stephen Donald conversions gave the visitors a 24-0 advantage at the break.
Jack Cuthbert and Mark McMillan went over after the interval and Agulla rounded off his treble and the scoring in the last minute after Luigi Ferraro replied with Calivsano's only points of the afternoon.
The match only went ahead after Calvisano groundstaff worked hard to clear 15cm of snow from the pitch ahead of kick-off, although conditions proved tricky for the kickers throughout.
Calvisano: Berne, Bergamo, Visentin, Castello (Frapporti 62), De Jager (Brancoli 53), Griffen (Picone 57), Palazzani, Lovotti (Gavazzi 62), Ferraro, Costanzo (Violi 53), Erasmus, Hehea (Gerosa 62), Cicchinelli (Canavosio 53), Scanferla, Vunisa. Replacement not used: Scarsini.
Bath Rugby: Cuthbert, Agulla, Eastmond, Williams (Vesty 47), Biggs, Donald (Heathcote 53), Claassens (McMillan 41), Beech (Perenise 61), Sharman (Dunn 61), Wilson (Palma-Newport 47), Day, Caldwell (Attwood 41), Taylor (Hooper 53), Ovens, Koster.
Referee: Laurent Cardona (France).
Horacio Agulla grabbed a hat-trick of tries as Bath Rugby made it four bonus-point wins out of four to stay on course for top-seeing in the Amlin Challenge Cup.
The Pool 4 leaders went into the game on the back of a 67-11 hammering of the Italian side at The Rec a week previously and wasted little time in going ahead, with Simon Taylor touching down inside two minutes.
Former Leicester wing Agulla added two more tries, while a score from Tom Biggs and a brace of Stephen Donald conversions gave the visitors a 24-0 advantage at the break.
Jack Cuthbert and Mark McMillan went over after the interval and Agulla rounded off his treble and the scoring in the last minute after Luigi Ferraro replied with Calivsano's only points of the afternoon.
The match only went ahead after Calvisano groundstaff worked hard to clear 15cm of snow from the pitch ahead of kick-off, although conditions proved tricky for the kickers throughout.
Calvisano: Berne, Bergamo, Visentin, Castello (Frapporti 62), De Jager (Brancoli 53), Griffen (Picone 57), Palazzani, Lovotti (Gavazzi 62), Ferraro, Costanzo (Violi 53), Erasmus, Hehea (Gerosa 62), Cicchinelli (Canavosio 53), Scanferla, Vunisa. Replacement not used: Scarsini.
Bath Rugby: Cuthbert, Agulla, Eastmond, Williams (Vesty 47), Biggs, Donald (Heathcote 53), Claassens (McMillan 41), Beech (Perenise 61), Sharman (Dunn 61), Wilson (Palma-Newport 47), Day, Caldwell (Attwood 41), Taylor (Hooper 53), Ovens, Koster.
Referee: Laurent Cardona (France).
