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Sports Editors

Ed McCoshRob MilneAnthony Phillips

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Ed McCoshJoshua Hackett

PhotographyDan WestSian BradleyTom MasonGraham HaleySam KiteRoyce Lee

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Hugh DickinsonTom HoldenBen HallBeth AndralojcWill MoranNicole OshisanwoArne Dumez

Sonia TwiggMatthew WrightJacob BroadbridgeMatt HutchinsonOllie ThriftHarry KingSheena Sidhu

Aidan LeapeSiddharth SolankiDom LoweLeona AwoyeleJosh PeacheySian BradleyChloe Coleman

Ski and easy for Uni

Rob Milne & Hugh Dickinson

Shefield Hallam snatched a unexpected Varsity point, before the second day of Winter Varsity was cancelled due to poor conditions.

The show-piece event in the University snowsports calendar was held in Tignes in the Alps this year.

The freestyle events, planned to be held on the second day, were forced to be rescheduled after oficials deemed weather conditions too dangerous to compete in.

The University of Shefield secured the Ski racing point with a team including Ali Miles, Lawrie Campbell, Kai Hayes, Georgie Beer and Lewis Garland.

But in the Snowboard freestyle race the Shefield team were unable to build on that lead, falling just short with Hallam winning the point.

Miles, the race captain for the Ski team, told Forge Sport:

“Everyone did so well and even the people we didn’t

know were necessarily good, in teams and on snow were really, really good”.

Despite the tough conditions, Miles’ skiers claimed their Varsity point for the race event with ease.

“As you can tell everyone did really well, so we’re all good,” added Miles.

In last year’s winter event, the University of Shefield teams romped to a 5-0 victory, but the event was much closer this year with the points tied at 1-1.

The University of Shefield took a 3-2 lead in Varsity overall as the Ski and Snowboard clubs took 1.5 Varsity points between them after a three month wait.

Winter Varsity moved to the less glamourous Xscape Snozone in Castleford which nonetheless endeared itself as the Winter events were concluded a day before the summer ones oficially begin.

After a qualifying session, the judges decided on the best skiers and snowboarders to represent the two universities

based on style and dificulty.When the competitors

went for their two inal runs, the results went as expected. Hallam Men’s Snowboarder Callum Patton cruised to victory in style performing a 270 on to the box and a 360 off the last kicker, before upping the latter on his second run to an impressive 540.

The two Women’s events also went with expectations as the irst skier to attempt the slope, Nicole Bramley, won for Shefield, inishing the last kicker with a backside 180.

She was not to be outdone by her Snowboarding counterpart Emma Scott who was the only one in her discipline to attempt the tougher rail at the start of her run rather than the A-frame box. She followed this up with a frontside boardslide with a 180 off before a frontside 180 on the inal kicker.

The most hotly contested event was the Men’s Skiing Freestyle, and there were impressive runs from Hallam’s Lewis Pamphilon, who couldn’t quite land either of his attempted 540s, and Will Johnson who landed a 360 on his irst run. This was technically more dificult than Byron Haywood-Alexander’s spectacular frontside inverted roll, but the trick impressed the judges and his victory ensured Shefield won Winter Varsity by 2.5-1.5.

The calm before the storm

Inside

The team

Mixed BagFeaturing Winter Varsity, Boxing and

Dartsity at the Octagon as well as cycling.

Days 1-3Including a bumper opening day of action at

Hallam Sports Park.

Centrefold The full Varsity results table.

Days 4-6An action-packed afternoon at EIS and

more.

FinalsIce hockey, swimming and more as Varsity

draws to a thrilling end.

Varsity in picturesA selection of the week’s best photos.

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The University of Shefield and Shefield Hallam University shared the spoils with a 3-3 draw securing half a point each in a thrilling night of Varsity boxing.

Hallam raced into a 2-0 lead but TKO victories for Harry Hughes and Rob Dixon turned the tide, before Hashim Rehman won the inal point of the night after a tense bout to retain the Varsity Shield.

In the irst Varsity ight of the evening, Ben Otter of Shefield Hallam University narrowly defeated Chris Taylor in a split decision after three closely fought rounds of boxing.

Speaking to Forge Sport after the ight, Taylor said:

“I didn’t think it was a split decision.

“I did the best I could, but I really thought I won that ight.”

In the second bout, the intense concentration and leet-footed movement of Alireza Foroughi was too much for Shefield’s Niall Patrick.

Though Patrick landed a couple of punches of his own, it was too little, too late, as Foroughi dominated all three rounds.

The only shock, one which prompted gasps in the crowd, was that Foroughi only won by a split decision.

Harry Hughes tore apart John McKeating in the third ight, beginning the University of Shefield comeback after the opening two losses.

Hughes caught McKeating lush in the nose with an excellent third round right hook, blood splattered onto the Hallam ighter’s chest before the referee stopped it again – this time deciding

McKeating could not continue, giving Hughes a well-deserved win by TKO.

Needing victory to level the scores at 2-2, Rob Dixon produced one of the ights of his life to stop Quinlan in the third round after a number of incredible punches that left his opponent lailing in the arms of the referee.

Hughes tore apart McKeating in the third ight, starting the Sheield comeback

The result was redemption of sorts for Dixon, who was knocked out 20 seconds into his ight at last year’s Varsity event.

The referee halted the contest

after the second stoppage of Quinlan, who looked dead on his feet, as Shefield restored parity to the delight of the crowd.

However, Matthew Smith quickly nudged Hallam ahead with a comfortable win over Yaseen Noorani.

Smith’s far superior reach and offensive style gave him the advantage from the off, but Shefield’s Noorani put on

perhaps the most impressive performance of the night to hang on with the odds stacked heavily against him.

Entering the inal ight, the pressure was on Shefield’s Hashim Rehman to salvage half a point from the event – he did not fail to deliver.

The judges awarded the win by split-decision to Rehman, securing half a point for Shefield.

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Across the BoardPre-Varsity cycling

Sheield snatch Dartsity title

Hugh Dickinson

The University of Shefield won three of the ive cycling events to claim 1.5 Varsity points. Shefield won the cycling

cross country, the irst of the ive cycling events after Shefield had six riders inish in the top 10. Hallam tied up the

competition after winning the downhill with all six of their riders coming in the top six. In the time trial, Shefield

won by 31 minutes with Chris Bevan being the highest

placed Shefield rider. Hallam won the BMX event

held in Bole Hills to bring the Cycling event to the inal event. On the last day of Varsity,

Shefield won the hill climbing after Bevan, Kieran Savage and Archie Cross inished in the top three. The points guaranteed

Shefield retained Varsity for the fourth year in a row before Women’s Hockey 3s won Varsity for Shefield.

Sian Bradley

The University of Shefield edged out Shefield Hallam 11-10 in a tightly contested Dartsity contest in front of a raucous crowd of 400 at the Octagon.

Though it was not worth a Varsity point, victory for Shefield was well received by supporters in black and gold.

It was the second ever edition of Dartsity – the irst, a day short of one year previous, was won 8-1 by Shefield in front of 75 spectators.

The irst match pitted Shefield captain Jonny Kirk against Hallam counterpart Jack Handley, and Kirk raced

into a 2-0 lead with a 40 per cent success rate on his doubles.

However, Handley capitalised on double trouble from Kirk to take the inal leg.

Danny Hall and Declan Parsons starred in the tie of the night, the former hitting two 140s and a 100 in a 19-dart opening leg to make it 1-0.

Parsons fought back impressively however, and won the tie 2-1.

Max Orange then turned the tie in Shefield’s favour once more, notching up the only 3-0 win of the night over Jamesey Ennis.

The next two ties were scrappy affairs – Hallam’s Alex

Hadield beat Tom Hogg 2-1, before Ed McCosh of Shefield prevailed over Ben Laurence by the same scoreline to put his side 9-6 up.

Brad Hambleton then set Shefield nerves racing by taking a 2-0 lead over Rob Matthews, but the Shefield thrower checked out 91 on the bullseye to make it 10-8.

Brad Clowery needed just one leg to seal the win for Shefield, and he managed it at the irst attempt to spark wild celebrations.

Peter Newton did, however, bring Hallam’s total up to 10 with a 2-1 win, rounding off an exhilarating night of darts in front of one of the biggest crowds of the Varsity week.

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Rob Milne

Brad Johnston’s goal sealed victory for the University of Shefield Men’s 1s in a dramatic 3-2 victory over Shefield Hallam.

The match saw two red cards, ive goals and some incredible goalkeeping from Shefield’s Jack Farthing, who stopped Hallam from equalising in the closing minutes.

Shefield Hallam started the stronger of the two sides, throwing themselves into challenges all over the pitch, and giving Shefield no time to dwell on the ball.

Hallam capitalised in the 17th minute on their early pressure with Hallam centre back Luke Stephens having a shot trickle past Farthing into the bottom right hand corner of the net to make it 1-0 to Hallam.

Tackles continued to ly in all over the pitch with the referee

miraculously not brandishing a yellow card until Shefield Captain James Reid lew in with his studs showing.

Hallam continued to apply pressure with Jordan Ware coming close to scoring, but Ben Burgess was incredible in the air to keep Hallam from extending their lead.

Shefield levelled the score when Joe Ford found Johnston on the left, who played the ball across and found Mark Waters at the far post whose shot cannoned off Hallam keeper Luke Martin and bounced into the net.

Going into the second half, Hallam continued to put pressure on with George Coser’s long throws and Shefield were lucky not to concede.

The game turned when James Reid converted a 25-yard free-kick, nestling the ball into the left side of the goal after whipping it over the Hallam wall. It was an

incredible strike that left Martin with no chance.

Two minutes later Johnston doubled the Shefield lead. Joe Ford nodded down to the winger, who cut in from the left and ired home under the Hallam keeper, giving Shefield a 3-1 lead.

But Hallam bounced right back with an immediate response. An expert in-swinging corner was met by a Hallam head and Farthing could not save, making it 3-2.

Unsavoury scenes followed the goal. Farthing held on

to the ball to the annoyance of Hallam and a goalmouth brawl ensued. Burgess and Ware were sent-off leaving both sides with 10 men for the remainder of the contest.

Tensions were high as tackles continued to ly in, with Luke Stevens forcing the referee to brandish another yellow card.

What followed were heroics from Jack Farthing between the posts.

First, from a free kick he dived to his right to stop a shot, immediately followed by

another chance for Hallam’s Andy Ofosu with Farthing diving down to his right to stop what seemed to be a certain goal, securing a great victory.

Speaking to Forge Sport after the game, Shefield goalkeeping hero Jack Farthing said: “It’s not just me, the whole back four, midield; everyone worked themselves to the ground.

“We made one change in the 90th minute that shows how hard everyone worked for each other today – it’s unbelievable”.

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Brad Johnston (centre) netted a dramatic winner for Shefield. Image: Dan West

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Union 3s hold on

Football 3s romp to win

Ed McCosh

The University of Shefield picked up their irst point of the day in rugby at a busy Hallam Sports Park as the Men’s Rugby Union 3s battled their nerves and a spirited Shefield Hallam side to record a 13-6 victory.

Shefield dominated the early proceedings, and constant pressure meant that Hallam were not able to leave their own half in the opening 10 minutes, and it inally told as Shefield captain Toby Dewar

made the most of excellent work in the scrum to make it 5-0.

However, the conversion attempt by Sam Blakeley went wide of the posts, meaning that when Hallam reduced the deicit to 5-3 with a penalty, proceedings became decidedly more tense. Blakeley added another penalty before the half while Hallam were reduced to 14 men after a sin bin.

In the second half, Hallam added a penalty to make it 8-6 and every turnover brought cries of exasperation from the bench.

With 20 minutes to go, Shefield went further ahead when James Bailey stormed into the corner to make it 13-6.

Despite jangling nerves, Shefield held on for the win.

Ben Hall

The University of Shefield Men’s 3s Football team secured a Varsity point with a comfortable 5-2 victory over Shefield Hallam Men’s 3s.

It was Shefield who took the lead in just the third minute of the match. A downield break from a Hallam corner saw Shefield Captain Oscar Harrison play a lovely through ball for striker Dave Lodge to run onto and he calmly tucked the ball away inside the far post to make it 1-0.

Hallam responded immediately with a goal of their own. A long ball over the defence was met by the head of striker Ross Simms who diverted it past the onrushing Shefield goalkeeper Chris Harvey for the equaliser.

Two minutes later the dramatic start continued as Hallam took the lead.

Simms was again instrumental in the goal as

he cut inside a defender before iring in a low cross that midielder Jacob Stanton diverted into the net via an outstretched leg.

It was almost 3-1 on 10 minutes as Simms again got the better of two Shefield players and struck a mis-hit effort which almost trickled into the far corner.

Shefield did manage to get back on level terms before the break though. Fyfe played the diagonal ball to Bradshaw whose sublime volley that nestled into the top corner to bring the score to 2-2 at half time.

The second half was one-way trafic with Shefield enjoying large spells of possession and able to break through the Hallam defence almost at will.

It was Tom Wilson who regained the lead for Shefield with a sublime drive into the far corner of the goal after latching onto a lick-on by the impressive Lodge.

Two minutes later it was 4-2

to Shefield, Lodge grabbing his second of the game as he nipped in to rise highest and head home following a looping header back across goal from Bradshaw after a corner had been swung in from the left.

Lodge turned provider again on 61 minutes, racing past the Hallam right back before squaring for Harrison, who was pulled back by a recovering Hallam defender as he tried to shoot. The referee rightly pointed to the spot. The Shefield captain stepped up himself and sent the Hallam keeper the wrong way with the penalty to make it 5-2.

The game played out to a lull thereafter, Simms and Carney not able to pull a goal back for Hallam as both produced speculative efforts that curled beyond the far post, while Lodge was denied a hat-trick goal after the referee adjudged him to have fouled a Hallam player in his leap to head home another pin-point Fyfe cross.

Shefield though had done another to secure another comfortable victory over Hallam and with the inal whistle picked up the all-important Varsity point.

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Nicole Oshisanwo

The University of Shefield women’s Rugby Union 1s lost 17-5 to Shefield Hallam in Varsity.

The game was iercely contested and this led to a very scrappy irst half, with Shefield dominating, but largely unable to convert their dominance into any clear cut chances.

They were let down by their passing close to the try line, with errors and slow ofloads allowing Hallam to scramble the ball away on numerous occasions.

However, in the 30th minute, confusion from a Hallam line out allowed Menna Pogh Jones to scoop up the ball and score a try which Shefield failed

to convert. This meant that Shefield held a 5-0 advantage over Hallam at the break.

Shefield had more chances to extend their lead but were let down by poor passing.

Five minutes later, poor defending by Shefield allowed

a Hallam player to go on a storming run to score a try and level it up at 5-5.

Shefield were further punished by their irst half proligacy in the 67th minute, when another Hallam player ran almost the entire length of the pitch to score a try. This time it was converted, to give Hallam a 12-5 lead.

Shefield applied more pressure but couldn’t score before Hallam capitalised on more poor defence to score a inal try in the 80th minute.

Rugby Leaguein dominant win

Sheield Climbing reaches new heights

Beth Andralojc

The University of Shefield’s climbing team kicked off the irst proper day of Varsity with a roaring start, securing both climbing points on offer against Shefield Hallam University.

In order to achieve the most points, competitors were required to climb the highest amount of climbing walls out of all the other competitors.

As points are given based on the number of times a climber must climb the wall to complete it, each competitor was tested not only on their climbing skill but also on their ability to succeed on the irst try.

With 20 climbing walls to complete, the Shefield competitors faced a dificult challenge but the team demonstrated an unmistakable talent for climbing and were able to achieve the highest score overall from the qualifying round.

Shefield students Adam Fidler, Sam Williams and Luke Dawson were the most successful competitors, with Fidler garnering 197 points overall and Williams and

Dawson claiming 191 points. They were also accompanied

by another Shefield climber in Connor Byrne. All four went on to represent Shefield in the inal of the men’s competition.

Having won four medals at the BUCS National Championships, the climbing club entered as favourites

Shefield was also well represented in the female inals with Jen Wood and Dawn Brinkman scoring impressively in the qualifying rounds to advance to the inal.

In the inal of both events, Wood came irst for Shefield whille Fidler was the overall winner in the men’s competition, meaning that the University of Shefield claimed both Varsity points on offer.

Hallam hit target in Archery win

Women’s Union 1s lacklustre as Hallam secure shock victory

Will Moran

After a late start for Archery, a heated competition soon began between the University of Shefield and Shefield Hallam University in a sport that is heavily based upon precision, accuracy and technicalities.

The University of Shefield had previously claimed victory in this event two years ago before Hallam emerged victorious in last year’s event.

Things quickly got underway with both universities facing each other in a four versus four format for the irst round where losing players would win one point in the competition for their universities while

players who advanced to further rounds would have the opportunity to win more.

After the irst few rounds, the quarter-inals saw Jack Wells beat Iain Cramphorn to make it through to the semi-inals as Shefield’s only competitor while Hallam had Tom Mowforth, Christian Czerniak and Mike Smith; however Shefield held at this point, a lead of 10-6.

In the irst semi-inal between Mowforth and Czerniak, it reached single arrow sudden death with Czerniak prevailing. Mike Smith defeated Jack Wells in the second semi-inal to make it an all Hallam inal.

In the third place playoff, Wells was unable to defeat Mowforth which meant Hallam claimed all three podium positions.

In the inal, Smith and Czerniak shot some superb arrows but Smith came out the victor which resulted in Hallam defending their title by winning the event 21-13 to claim the Varsity point.

Ben Hall

The University of Shefield Men’s Rugby League team defeated Shefield Hallam 48-24 to secure back-to-back Varsity victories for the irst time in the side’s history.

It was a lying start with two quick-ire tries coming in the opening ten minutes.

Marcus Stock burst onto a lovely short ball to open the scoring, before a good passing move saw Joe Hammond dive in for the try.

With both conversions pushed wide, Shefield had an early 8-0 lead.

Hallam hit back strongly though, and led 12-8 after 22 minutes after tries from Arron Kite and Kieran Smith.

Shefield captain Johnson threw a clever reverse pass to Mark Cordeaux who scored. That try and Richard Veazey’s conversion made it 14-12.

Alex Taverner scored to quickly extend the lead before Peter Ainsley scored a minute before the break to give Shefield a 22-12 lead at halftime.

The start of the second half saw Shefield allow Hallam back into the game with a pair of tries through Jack Mitchell and Luke Powell.

Mitchell’s fourth conversion had made it 24-22 to Hallam, but their lead lasted less than ive minutes as Shefield began a spirited ightback with Hammond crossing for his second try of the game.

Shefield then scored their sixth try with Ainsley scoring his second of the game.

That try was converted by Grimmett to make it 32-24, before Grimmett himself ran into to score the seventh try for Shefield.

Shefield then continued to run up the score on a Hallam side who began to lose hope in winning the contest.

38 points became 42 as Tarverner turned provider with a superb lick to Stock after another powerful run and Stock dived in for the inal try of the game.

Grimmett added his inal conversion to give Shefield a 44-24 victory.

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Arne Dumez

The University of Shefield Rugby Union Men’s 1s suffered a narrow 21-24 defeat to Shefield Hallam in the Sports Park day inale to leave the overall Varsity score tied at 11-11.

In view of a huge crowd, the highly anticipated match kicked off to the roars and chants of both sides’ fans.

Shefield quickly carved a lead into the scoreboard as George Hedgley scored the irst try after a few minutes of gameplay to give Shefield a 5-0 lead. Fly-half Alistair Hills missed the conversion but redeemed himself moments later with a penalty kick to give Shefield a 8-0 lead after 20 minutes.

Hallam played strong defence all game, putting up

numerous defensive displays to stop Shefield when they were camped metres from the try line.

Shefield scored again when Harry Pratt slid past the line, but Hills missed the conversion. Nonetheless Shefield lead 13-0 after 24 minutes.

Hallam added a penalty to narrow the gap before Shefield stopped Hallam from scoring with impressive tackling by Sammy Graham and Joe Slater.

Hallam scored their irst try in the 32nd minute when their prop drove over the line.

Shefield seemed to be incapable of containing the aggressive advance of their opponents and Hallam led 13-14 at half time after two more penalties.

Shefield could have scored a try after the restart, but more strong defending stopped Alex

Bilton. Oficials were called into

action as tensions between the teams erupted into a ight with Bilton and a Hallam player sinned binned.

A penalty in the 65th minute put Shefield back on top at 16-14.

However, Hallam quickly retaliated with a kick of their own, taking a narrow 16-17 lead.

A tremendous ruck by Shefield took them to the Hallam ive metre line before Shefield forced themselves over for their third try of the game and a 21-17 lead with three minutes remaining.

Inspiring defensive tackles by Lewis Bloor and Joshua Leonard were proof of Shefield’s determination to keep Hallam away from their try line.

But this was in vain, Lewis Bowman managed to score the winning try for Hallam in the very last seconds of the match before a successful conversion gave Hallam a 24-21 victory over Shefield. Hallam fans fans then stormed the pitch to celebrate victory.

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Sonia Twigg

After the University of Shefield Men’s 2s and the Women’s 1s had both lost narrowly in Varsity to Shef-ield Hallam, it was up to the Men’s 1s side to try and rescue a point for Shefield.

Unfortunately the task was too much for the side and they slumped to a 19 run defeat.

Hallam won the toss and batted irst and despite this being an unusual decision it didn’t prove to matter in the course of the game.

Despite some good bowling from Jack Forrester and Matt Wright, a failure to get an early breakthrough proved to be costly. This proved to be a feature that determined the course of Hallam’s innings as the irst wicket, a run out by Edward Pearce, only came in the ninth over with the score already at 86.

Two more run outs in the inal over failed to restrict Hallam’s score signiicantly and they made a good indoor score of 100 from their 10 overs.

What was already a steep challenge was worsened by the loss of opener Alex Wheat-ley on his irst ball. Despite a developing partnership until the start of the 5th over from Mason Denning and Pearce, Shefield were always behind the required run rate, manag-ing only 35 runs after 5 overs.

Unfortunately Sheield’s batting failed to live up to their performance in the ield.

This trend worsened as wickets began falling for Shefield; two wickets were lost in the sixth over for only two runs. A valiant effort by Pearce with the bat, making 44 and as the last man in after the eight over for a moment gave Shefield some hope, but ultimately 100 proved too much to achieve.

Matt Wright

The University of Shefield Women’s cricket team narrowly lost to Shefield Hallam in the irst Varsity cricket ixture by two wickets.

Indoor cricket is fast-paced and ideal for tight inishes, and this game did not disappoint in the slightest, with Hallam snatching the Varsity point in the inal over of the match.

The game swung back and forth with neither side ever quite capitalising on their opportunities until the very end, in a game that will have set many a heart a lutter with nerves.

Hallam won the toss and put Shefield in to bat, placing faith in their batting depth to chase whatever they were faced with.

After two overs, they must have wondered if they’d made a grave error as Shefield’s openers, Millie Boddington and Hannah Lautch, got off to a lyer, taking the score to 23, aided by three wides and some positive drives and clips into the leg-side.

However, Hallam dug their feet in and put a halt to the scoring, with overs three to six only conceding 15 as

Shefield’s threes dried up almost completely.

Shefield lacked the decisiveness between the wickets that can really pressure a team.

Two wickets fell too, as Boddington chipped to mid-off for 11 and Zara Aslam was struck plumb in front for a duck.

A late-innings spurt saw Shefield reach 73 for the loss of two, with Lautch reaching 25 off the last ball of the innings, a knock notable for her positive off-side play and speed between the wickets.

Sheield will have fancied their chances too after a strong start with the ball.

They restricted Hallam to just 23 off the irst four overs, with two wickets falling in quick succession in the fourth over.

Hallam opener Connor looked strong, but was caught and bowled by Boddington, before McCurrie was then run out after a mix-up left her and Patel at the same end, making

it easy work for Aslam and wicket-keeper Megan Lee.

Lizzie Dillam continued the good work for Shefield, bowling a superb sixth over, bowling Watson and only conceding one run, leaving Hallam with a tough ask of 39 off four overs.

In their search for a fourth bowler for one over, Shefield slipped up, as Lautch’s gentle pace gave Patel and Donlon plenty of time to work the ball around, taking 12 off the seventh over.

From there, they ran very positively, putting Shefield’s ielding under pressure, and proiting heavily out of the dab behind square on the off-side.

Hallam took 20 off the eighth and ninth overs, with Patel retiring on 27.

In the meantime, Hallam were left with a relatively comfortable seven needed off the inal over.

Boddington bowled it, and two threes came off the irst two balls to tie the scores.

By the time she cleaned up Donlon by making a mess of her stumps, it was too little, too late.

Patel came back in and hit the next ball for three, giving Hallam a two-wicket victory, and the all-important Varsity point.

It was a disapointing defeat for the Shefield side who had performed well in BUCS competitions this year.

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Anthony Phillips

The University of Shefield Athletics team shared the two Varsity points on offer with Shefield Hallam on the third day of Varsity.

The Men’s team comfortably beat Hallam 65 points to 44 to secure the Varsity Point while the Women’s point was more closely contested with Hallam securing the 75 point to 70 victory after the inal race of the day.

In the irst event of the day, the Men’s high jump, Shefield athletes Curtis Mitchell and Theo Walkley-Bartlett inished second and third after jumping 1.80 and 1.65 metres respectively.

The Shefield Men’s irst victory of the day came in the javelin where Robbie Morris threw 38.83 metres to win, with Tom Horton second after a 34.40 metre throw. Horton was at it again moments later, winning the 800m race comfortably in a time of 1:57 with Shefield athletes inishing

second, third, fourth, ifth and sixth.

Liam McGivern won the Men’s long jump for Shefield with Connor Lafferty third and Shefield continued to have more success on the track when Joe Epps and Gareth Surman inished irst and second in the Men’s 400 metre hurdles. In the 110 metre hurdles, Epps came second to a very fast Mitchell to secure another Shefield top two.

Shefield athletes who competed in multiple events were doing well, with McGivern getting his second victory of the day in the 400 metres while Theo-Bartlett was irst in the Men’s 100 metres.

In the 5000 metres, Joe Wilkinson comfortably ran round the track to win and that victory secured the Men’s Varsity point for Shefield.

More victories followed for the Shefield men with Eima Meade winning the 200 metres and Tom Horton powering to victory in the 1500 metres ahead of Shefield athletes Will

Mycroft and Jon Collier, while Connor Laferty won the shot put with a throw of 11.37.

The Women’s side owed much of their competitiveness to the efforts of Rebecca Cope and Steph Pike. In the Women’s long jump, Cope’s irst round jump of 4.77m saw her inish second while her and Pike ran around the track in the 400m hurdles to secure the points for Shefield after Hallam ielded no runners.

Despite having never participated in the high jump before, both Pike and Cope took part to make sure Shefield secured at least one point in an event Hallam won. Cope then secured victory for Shefield in the Women’s long jump with a leap of 11.10.

Caroline Schaulfelberger stormed to victory in the 800 metres, winning by over 13 seconds from Shefield athlete Rachel Lundgren. Lundgren then won the 400 metres before also winning the 1500 metres. Jacqueline Penn won the 5000 metres before Hallam began a comeback.

Hallam won the 200 metres, the shot put and the javelin before winning the 4x400 metre and 4x100 relay races to secure the Women’s Varsity point by a very narrow margin of ive points.

Athletics honours even

Black and golf successTom Holden

The University Of Shefield Golf 1s won a hard-earned Varsity point against Shefield Hallam Golf 1s, beating them 6.5/5.5 at Lindrick Golf Club.

The day began with foursomes, followed by eight singles in the afternoon.

The irst pairing out for Shefield was Joseph Bates and Quentin Gallitre who claimed the irst point of the morning.

With the game tied on 16, Hallam had a putt to win the hole but couldn’t convert the chance.

They were made to regret the miss, losing hole 17 and putting them one behind going down the last.

A composed tee shot left Shefield just short of the green and a well-judged pitch from Gallitre was enough for the Hallam pair to concede the point.

Match two saw James Malin and Monty Williamson dominate proceedings for the majority of the game, but Hallam fought back

and took the pair to the inal hole, despite Shefield being 3up with three to play.

Captain Hannah Holden played alongside William Swarbrick who together fought a mighty battle to stay in the game after being four down on the 11th – securing a halved point.

The inal pairing of Max Bacon and Graeme Sutcliffe suffered a similar fate to that of the irst game.

An incredibly tight ixture was again taken to the inal hole, after Shefield won hole 17 to stand 1up on the 18th tee.

Hallam left a crucial putt short, losing the game and leaving the scores at 3.5/0.5 at the halfway stage.

Captain Holden led by example and won her own game 4up with two holes left.

Williamson then followed suit by winning his match, leaving Swarbrick to bring home the points for Shefield University, thumping his opponent 6up with ive to play.

Other Sports Park Day Results

Ben Hall

Shefield Hallam levelled the 2016 Varsity standings at 12-12 on Thursday evening as they defeated The University of Shefield 3-1 in the Ice Hockey 2s match at iceShefield.

All the goals arrived in an electric second period, Hallam taking advantage of their chances to wrap up the victory.

Both goaltenders put in ine individual performances to keep down the score and ensure their side stayed in the game, but Shefield’s Callum Steventon was inally beaten in the second minute of the second period by a long-distance effort from Craig Naylor.

It was 2-0 to Hallam shortly after, as the impressive Matt Unwin inished neatly with a chipped shot over the outstretched arm

of Steventon that nestled into the net.

It was a positive response from Shefield, who cut the lead less than a minute later. Stephen Killick’s strike from distance seemed to be heading harmlessly towards Hallam goaltender Bevan, but Miller diverted the puck with a great reaction lick.

Shefield conceded again as Unwin’s backhand pass was completely missed by a Shefield player, which allowed Barras to collect and skate in on-goal, showing lovely puck movement with a quick deke in-front of the net-minder before slashing into the far corner.

The third period was much of a non-event, with Hallam willing to control possession of the puck and see out the win in comfortable fashion.

Football M2/4The University of Shefield Men’s 2s secured

a Varsity point after a tense 1-0 victory over Hallam with a second half goal from James Smith after a mistake from the Hallam goalkeeper.

In the irst ever Men’s 4s Varsity match, Shefield lost 5-2 despite a world class goal from Luke Pearce who leapt backwards to score a sensational scissor kick. Despite this, Hallam dominated and won comfortably.

Rugby U M2The University of Shefield Rugby Union

Men’s 2s secured their Varsity point with a narrow 12-5 victory over Shefield Hallam.

In a cagey and tense game littered with mistakes throughout, the victory was secured with tries from Sharif Doug and Moyo Oyelukemun.

The University of Shefield Men’s Cricket 2s were left devastated by a one run loss against Shefield Hallam.

Hallam stumbled towards a target of 80 and Shefield needed 16 runs off the inal over but could only muster 15 to come up agonisingly short of the target.

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Football W1/2It was a day to forget for the University of

Shefield Women’s 1s football team who lost 9-0 to Shefield Hallam.

Hallam had Doncaster Belles player Jess Sigsworth in their starting line-up and she dominated Shefield with two goals and two assists.

In the Women’s 2s game, Shefield lost 5-0 with Hallam scoring two in the irst half and three in the second. The score could have been higher had it not been for Shefield keeper Lauren Barnes producing a number of excellent saves.

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Will Moran

The University of Shefield claimed a vital Varsity point with a 6-4 Rowing victory at Dam Flask.

Going into the event on a sunny Saturday morning, the overall Varsity score was deadlocked at 13-13, and the two points on offer had become precious commodities.

Proceedings got underway with the Novice Men’s 4s, with Shefield Hallam taking the irst victory of the day.

However, from that point onwards the tide turned, and Shefield took control.

The second race, the Novice Women’s 8s, went down to the wire with both teams neck-and-neck going into the last 100m - but Shefield were able to edge clear and claim a morale-boosting win.

Next, in the Senior Men’s Double Sculls Shefield showed off their strength and resilience as they powered their way down the dam to win the event by ive lengths.

But Hallam came straight

back at Shefield in the Novice Women’s Double Sculls with an impressive run.

The Senior Men’s 8s was the next race to follow, and was extremely closely contested until the 200m mark, but Hallam lost their rhythm and technique, and made a costly error that would unfortunately lose them the race.

The Senior Women’s Double was another comfortable win for Shefield, which meant that they were now 2-1 up in each the Men’s and Women’s events.

Hallam put in a strong

performance to win the Novice Women’s 4s to make it 2-2 in the Women’s events, meaning it was all to play for in the last race.

Shefield conidently took the Men’s point as the Novice Men’s 8s rowed to victory. Hallam were able to win their last race, the Senior Men’s 4s, to make it 3-2 in the Men’s event.

Finally, it was the Senior Women’s 8s. Another important point rested on this race, and once more Shefield’s rowers were ultimately victorious as the Women’s 8s rowed to victory.

The much deserved Shefield success built upon Varsity victories last year for the Men’s and Women’s teams, and ensured the Varsity title holders would retain the lead going into Sunday’s events.

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Trampolining soar to winBeth Shreeves

The University of Shefield trampolining team secured the Varsity point by beating Shefield Hallam by a large margin of 16 points.

After a impressive performance at BUCS, Shefield came into the competition as heavy favourites.

Competitors from each team were required to perform a sequence of ten moves, varying in dificulty depending on the six categories: Novice, Intermediate, Interadvanced, Advanced, Elite and Uber. Points were awarded for the top three performances in each category.

Winner of the novice category was Hallam’s Beth Gale, with Raia Blackburn from the Shefield team placing second.

Intermediate was won outright by Shefield with Tori Wensley, Anna Kelly and Kirsty Lee placing irst, second and third respectively.

First in Interadvanced was Hallam’s Eliza Andrews, with

Fred Mears and Caroline Thornhill representing Shefield placing second and third.

Alex Fairman and Cat Southard scored irst and second place in Advanced for Shefield, with Meg Baker and Ed Whatley-Smith also winning irst and second in Elite.

Finally Uber was won by Shefield Lianne Sellors, closely followed by Lucy Smith, with Ben Cooper representing Hallam in third place.

Overall Hallam took a total of 10 points, beaten by Shefield who took 26.

Trampolining captain Meg Baker told Forge Sport: “I’m very happy, it was meant to be pretty close but we’ve completely smashed it! Team morale is pretty high”.

The trampolining club are currently second in their league after an impressive season, and their result today allowed Shefield to build a crucial three point lead over Hallam after the irst ive days of the Varsity tournament, with Shefield leading 18-15.

Stalemate in Triathlon Reports: Around the grounds

Arne Dumez

The points were shared at Southwell Triathlon on Sunday as the University of Shefield took the spoils in the Women’s division, while Shefield Hallam claimed victory in the Men’s.

Rachel Brown, Claire Cooke and Charlotte Pheasey occupied the top three places in the women’s race, dominating their Varisty meet.

However, Isaac Moss, Sam Hughes and captain Jacob Pope could not pip Hallam’s trio to the win.

The triathlon was worth two Varsity points, one for each gender division, and had the potential to be the push both sides needed to gain a signiicant lead in the overall scores.

Liam Walker, Igor Gawron and William Ellis represented Shefield’s irst wave of the day, starting early after a 5am rise.

They were quickly followed by James Mellor, Ben Magnall and Robert Jones for the men, and Bethan Gay and Helen Eachus

for the women. Jones claimed irst place in

his gender division with an impressive 16:35 run, which brought his overall time to just under an hour.

Gay emulated his feat and claimed irst place for the women minutes later.

However, both sides upped the ante and positions were quickly shifted down the rankings. Shefield Men’s captain Jacob Pope crossed the inish line in a solid 57:40, and Brown claimed the Women’s top spot with a time of 01:00:12.

The last two waves were bound to decide the outcome of the Varsity meet, as both sides released their best athletes onto the course.

Isaac Moss and Sam Hughes set out to dominate Hallam, and put down times of 53:33 and 55:42 respectively, which pushed Pope to third place in the Shefield rankings.

Unfortunately, Hallam’s performance outshone Shefield’s men, with their top three all coming in under 56 minutes. With both sides claiming a point each, Shefield cemented their Varsity lead.

“Today was great”, Ben Magnall told Forge Sport.

“I think the club as a whole delivered a great performance today and I’m already looking forward to next year”.

American Football edged outThe University of Shefield Men’s American Football team lost the SteelBowl to rivals Shefield Hallam University for the third year in a row, losing 13-10 at Goodwin.

The irst half was a mixture of shared ield goals and numerous penalties, until Shefield quarterback Jacob Hardy found Simon Arnold to give Shefield a 10-6 lead.

However, Hallam managed to score a touchdown late in the fourth to secure a 13-10 win.

Shefield dominate 10KIn the 10k event, the University of Shefield were victorious in both the Men’s and Women’s races to round out an impressive performance in the athletics.

In the Men’s event, Jon Collier, Ollie Kyriakides and Olly Williams placed second, ifth and ninth whilst Becky Rigby and Ellen Downs placed irst and second in the Women’s race.

The University of Shefield’s Sailing club emerged victorious with a comfortable win at Windscar Reservoir.

With a large crowd braving the bitter conditions, the University of Shefield tore apart the formbook, having lost the ixture last year. Shefield won four of the inal ive races to secure the Varsity point.

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Equestrian successThe University of Shefield claimed the Equestrian Varsity point after the A team claimed victories in dressage and jumping.

Hallam were victorious last year, but an excellent all-round performance turned the tie in Shefield’s favour.

Shefield captain Sarah Fitton told Forge Sport:“I am really proud of how we performed in

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Rob Milne

University of Shefield Men’s Futsal fell to a shock goal-illed 9-11 defeat to the underdog Shefield Hallam side.

Shefield lost a three goal lead during the match – with Hallam scoring ive unanswered goals to turn 4-7 to 7-9 lead.

It was evident from kick-off that Hallam’s goalkeeper was right in form, making a couple of brilliant saves in the opening minutes – diving to his right to prevent Shefield from taking the lead.

Shefield’s Nathan Lightowler managed to break the deadlock with a wonderful inish.

A long ball came over his shoulder and he met it with his left foot, putting it back across the goal to make it 1-0.

Hallam answered well, raining down shots on Laurence Bimson in between the Shefield posts. Within a couple of minutes the

Hallam team saw two shots cannon back off the post, following some long distance drives.

It was not long before Shefield’s luck ran out. A lovely side footed inish beat Bimson to level the score.

Tom Wilkes answered back for Shefield almost immediately, inishing calmly at the near post to regain the lead.

Shefield’s Raif Howley one-on-one with the Hallam keeper but found himself unable to inish - after some brilliant ball control.

The end-to-end action continued when a missed tackle saw the Hallam forward one-on-one and able to inish nicely into the bottom corner.

Hallam went on to take their irst lead of the game, with another rocket from distance inding the back of the net – putting them 3-2 up.

Next it Shefield’s Nwokobia’s turn, a deft inish guiding the ball home, to the joy of the fans

in black and gold.Hallam scored again to retake

the lead, but Lightowler scored again, connecting sweetly irst time to ire home – leaving the score 4-4 at the half.

Shefield started the brighter of the two sides in the second half, with Nwokobia breaking through to square to Enric Garcia Font who ired emphatically home.

They continued to build their lead with Wilkes getting his second from an Enric assist – soon after Lucho Gonzalez netted, putting Shefield 7-4 up.

But then the remarkable Hallam comeback began, with a low shot arrowing into the net.

Their next goal, to put the score at 7-6, forced Shefield to take a time-out.

Tensions hit a high when Enric got involved with two Hallam players after a couple of poor tackles – two yellow cards were brandished.

Shefield continued to live on the edge and were punished by a sliding inish to level it up at 7-7.

Then came the irst Hallam penalty, giving them their irst lead of the half at 7-8. Shefield were briely back level but Hallam answered back immediately to retake a 8-9 lead.

New Shefield goalkeeper

Rich Wilkinson misjudged a long throw from the Hallam keeper, and the Hallam forward headed home to give them a two goal advantage

Wilkes scored his third of the game but a dubious handball penalty decision again captain Ryan Willson gifted Hallam the chance to restore their two goal lead.

It was converted with ease, conirming the 9-11 Hallam win.

University of Shefield Futsal team inished fourth in the BUCS Northern Premier this year, meanwhile their city rivals, Hallam, competed in the league below.

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Netball 1s in EIS triumph

Table Tennis sweep points

Sonia Twigg

The University of Shefield Netball 1s made sure the points were shared equally on EIS day after defeating Shefield Hallam 42-36.

With Hallam 2-1 up after winning both the 2s and 3s games there was a lot of pressure on the Shefield 1s to even the score.

It was a convincing performance from the Shefield side who held the lead for 58 minutes of the contest.

Good shooting from Lena

McGufie-Newnham and strong defence from Yasmin Vines and Liz Bailey gave Shefield a comfortable 11-6 advantage following the end of the irst quarter.

Charlotte Bayes kept Shefield ahead at halftime after some more excellent shooting with Shefield holding a 22-17 advantage.

Lots of late goals in the third quarter of action meant Shefield had a seven point lead going into the inal quarter.

More excellent defending from Shefield denied Hallam multiple scoring opportunities whilst Bayes and Newnham kept the scoring ticking over at the other end.

The good shooting by Shefield proved invaluable as they secured a 42-36 victory.

Rob Milne, Ed McCosh and Matt Hutchison

The University of Shefield Table Tennis club secured a 3-0 whitewash of Shefield Hallam after the Men’s 1s, Women’s 1s and Men’s 2s all won convincingly.

In the Men’s 1s, Shefield captain Warren Li Kam Wa did not lose a single set in his four games.

Hallam took an early lead when Ellis Cooper beat former Shefield Hallam captain but now Shefield player Luke Tattersall 0-3, but the score was levelled when David Man Min Ho managed to defeat Hallam’s number one player Dale Parnell.

The game of day came when Tattersall took on Parnell. The Hallam man took a two set lead before Tattersall pulled it back to 2-2 in a brilliant comeback. Parnell came out iring in the inal set, inishing a great game and taking the Hallam point.

To top off the day, Li Kam Wa

and Fraser treated spectators to an immaculate display in the doubles. The leading pair, who are both in the top 65 players in the country, put Parnell and Cooper to the sword to round off a brilliant performance. Overall Shefield won the Men’s 1s 14-3.

In the Women’s event, Shefield defeated Hallam 3-2 after Laura Horton and Echo Wu prevailed in the deciding doubles match.

Hallam had 23rd ranked Isobel Ashley in their ranks

who defeated Wu and Horton in singles but the team of Wu and Horton held their nerve to defeat Ashley and Wynne Ly.

Though Shefield, who inished 4th in BUCS Northern 1A division, were favourites against a Hallam outit that inished 5th in Northern 3B, it was a hard-fought and well-earned win for Horton and Wu against the prodigiously talented Ashley and her Hallam counterparts.

In the Men’s 2s, Shefield produced a similar display to the Men’s 1s, defeating Hallam 14-3 in a dominating performance after winning 14 of the remaining 15 matches.

The overall Varsity performance highlighted why Shefield have one of the best table tennis clubs in the UK.

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Late drama at Abbeydale saw the University of Shefield Men’s Hockey 2s score a winner with only three minutes remaining to take the Varsity point.

Shefield survived a Shefield Hallam onslaught in the inal minutes to hold on 3-2 winners, in a heated encounter between the two rivals.

Shefield captain Alex Tait set the tone for the match in the irst minute, lasting just 30 seconds before aggressive tackling saw him receive the game’s irst yellow card.

Both sides were clearly pumped up, challenging hard for each loose ball, and it wasn’t long before Hallam also had a player in the bin for an overly eager slide tackle.

Despite both teams being temporarily reduced to ten

men, neither side took their foot off the gas and the opening exchanges were played at an electric pace.

Hallam had the irst clear chance on ten minutes, but Shefield were let off.

Less than ive minutes later they rued the missed opportunity, as Tom Hawthorne scored for Shefield.

After receiving the ball in the circle with his back to goal he turned sharply and ired it hard into the bottom corner.

The lead didn’t last long however, Hallam equalised ive minutes later with a scrappy goal against the run of play.

For the remainder of the match the teams were evenly matched, with much of the play in the centre of the ield and neither side able to work a clear goal scoring chance.

Shefield scored again just before the break through Matt

Prichard, but were pegged back again when Tait was sent to the bin for a second time, and Hallam converted the subsequent short corner.

Shefield reacted well to the equaliser, raising their game again with more strong tackling in defence, and powerful attacking runs from Dan Johnson.

Throughout the inal quarter of an hour Hallam were pinned back in their half as Shefield pushed for the winner.

Pressure had been building on the Hallam goal and it eventually paid off.

After a long, patient build up the ball was ired across the circle to the back post where Johnson met it with a superb strike past the keeper to break Hallam hearts.

Emotions were running high after the inal whistle. Hallam’s number 10 vented his anger by throwing his stick to loor and aiming abuse at the nearest oficial, shouting “You are a f**king disgrace of an umpire”.

Such reactions have no place in Varsity, but it didn’t take the gloss off an enthralling and well-deserved Shefield win.

Tennis victorious

Squash hold of Hallam challenge

Sonia Twigg and Anthony Phillips

The University of Shefield Women’s Squash team won the Varsity point after defeating Shefield Hallam University 4-2. The addition of Women’s Squash this year meant that the overall Squash event was now worth three Varsity points. In the irst Women’s singles ixture, Natalie Anwyll produced a dominating display of racquet hitting to blow away Sophie Salinger 3-0 in less than 20 minutes. It was the same story in the second women’s singles match. Lucy Tetlow took complete control in the centre of the court, hitting excellent boasts and beautiful drop shots to keep Holly Moore of Hallam running. Tetlow also secured a 3-0 whitewash to put Shefield 2-0 up. Shefield secured at least half a Varsity point moments later when Tilly Spence defeated Hattie Hammond 3-1 in a much more competitive game than the previous two contests. Hammond had tied up the contest before Spence

managed to pull away in the third and fourth set. With Shefield still needing at least one victory to secure the overall Varsity point, Sarah Gill was defeated 3-1 by Tansy Clark of Hallam. Hallam had the wind under their sails at this point and they realised they could secure at least half a Varsity point with two victories in the inal two singles matches. In the ifth singles match, Maria Bainbridge fought bravely but was outclassed 3-1 by Jess Dixon despite winning the irst set to make it 3-2 with one singles match remaining. It was left to outgoing sports oficer Flic Wilbraham to secure the victory for Shefield. In a classic contest full of momentum swings, Wilbraham defeated Georgie Goodwin 3-2 to win the Varsity point and give Shefield an unassailable 4-2 victory. After Wilbraham lost the irst set, she took the second and took the third to move within one set of victory. However Goodwin took the fourth set to take it to a dramatic conclusion. The ifth set was illed with excellent shotmaking by both players. Goodwin saved a game ball at 10-9 but Wilbraham took the set 12-10 to seal victory.

Men’s Squash 2s win but 1s fall to defeat

Late winner for Hockey 2s

Anthony Phillips

The University of Shefield Men’s Squash 2s won 4-3 to take the Varsity point after securing the irst four singles matches.

However. the Men’s Squash 1s lost 5-2 to give Hallam the victory.

Shefield couldn’t have begun the Men’s 1s any better after winning the irst two singles matches. Unfortunately for them, they were their only singles victories of the day.

Guy Tallentine narrowly beat Paul Brimson in the opening encounter by three sets to two.

At the same time, Jonny Coverdale produced an excellent display to defeat John Askew 3-1.

Jack Cornell of Hallam defeated Shefield’s Sam

Birch-Machin 3-0 before Ed Stallworth defeated Simon Graham 3-1 to tie up the Men’s 1s at 2-2.

Omar Badr was beaten 3-0 by Jack Alcock to move Hallam within one point of victory and that was secured when Ed Walker beat Owen Bailey 3-0 to give Hallam the Varsity point.

The Men’s 2s event could not have been anymore different for Shefield.

Sam Koelling produced an excellent display to defeat Lewis Bellwood 3-0, winning the inal two sets 11-1.

That performance indicated the quality of the Shefield Men’s 2s who went 2-0 up after Chris Yu defeated Tom Gill 3-1.

Greg Deighton then defeated George Illridge 3-0 but he was made to work for his victory, taking the inal set 18-16 after 16 minutes of high level squash.

Shefield won the Men’s 2s point when James McClure won although Michael Hobbs, Alex Fredericks and George Matthews lost later on.

Matt Wright, Siddharth Solanki and Finlay Panting

University of Shefield’s Tennis club secured all three Varsity points in an excellent day of tennis at Hallamshire Tennis Club

In the men’s 1s it began Tom Dyakowski and Will Athow of Shefield taking on Shefield Hallam’s James Spence and Olly Janson – the Shefield pairing winning in straight sets, a tight irst set at 7-5 and prevail 6-1 in the second set.

A thriller developed in the other doubles match as Shefield captain Matt Ford,

partnering Ben Stevenson, lost in three sets to Ben Jackson and Remario Brown.

In the singles, Dyakowski demonstrated control in his 6-2, 6-3 win over Janson, while the powerful Athow beat Hallam’s Spence

Shefield had to wait until the inal match to seal the point. Stevenson saw off Brown with ease, romping home to a 6-2 6-2 win.

The women’s 1s managed an impressive 4-2 win over Hallam – despite not winning the event for two years running.

The day started off with the two doubles matches. Lydia Huxtable and Danielle Smith

won the irst in straight sets, 7-5 6-3, while Hallam won indoors with Natalie Bacon and Sam Wileman well beaten.

Ashwini Foster put Shefield in the lead in the irst singles match by winning her match 7-5 5-7 6-2. In the second singles match, Carla Baceanu lost the irst set but came back strongly to win the next two sets and the match, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

To close the event, Danielle Smith won her match moments after Bacon’s loss, 7-6 6-4, to win Shefield Women’s Tennis 1s the Varsity point.

In the men’s 2s, Shefield ran out 6-0 winners over Hallam.

The tie consisted of six matches; two doubles and four singles

Shefield had a superb start and Vilis Vitols secured the Varsity point with a 6-3 6-2 win over Smith.

The result conirmed the clean sweep of tennis.

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The University of Shefield Women’s 1s sauntered to a 4-0 victory against Shef-ield Hallam to seal the Varsity point with consum-mate ease.

Shefield lew out of the blocks early on, with the open-ing goal scored by Amelia Milton in the sixth minute. Minutes after the goal, there was a short corner given to the Shefield after foot contact with the ball, but it ultimately they failed to take advantage. Tension was building among rather vocal fans of both sides after three penalty corners were awarded to Hallam in quick succession, yet none

resulted in a goal. A fairly ex-citing and fast irst half ended with the score still 1-0.

Almost immediately after the teams returned to the pitch, Sarah Bazley-Harrison extend-ed Uni’s lead with a composed inish, bringing the score to a more comfortable 2-0. Sharp intakes of breath were heard minutes later as Hallam’s Amy Palmer took a shot and nar-rowly missed.

The noise of the crowd grew once again as Milton, who scored earlier, was given a green card after a foul. Hal-lam’s attack fought back as they sought a way back into the game, but the Shefield defence held them off well.

Alice Williams then silenced the Hallam crowd and scored for Shefield, furthering the lead to 3-0.

Then, in the closing mo-ments of the match, a last minute goal brought the score to 4-0 to a dominant Shefield.

Arne Dumez

The University of Shefield Basketball Men’s 1s fell to a 77-97 defeat despite an inspired third quarter comeback.

Shefield even levelled the score in the third quarter – a great achievement against a widely fancied Shefield Hallam side.

Ben Thomas gained possession for Shefield at the tip-off, and Marko Amezaya-Kutija immediately made an offensive attempt on Hallam’s paint. Hallam scored the irst points and quickly established a lead.

Five minutes into the irst quarter Shefield suffered a 2-12 deicit after Hallam’s Eddy Brownell scored six points from downtown. It was a poor start for Shefield.

John Tsui eventually put some points on the board and brought back Shefield’s morale.

The irst period came to an end as the scoreboard showed 13-23.

Hallam, determined to keep up the pace they had set

in the irst quarter, opened the second with a charge in Shefield’s paint. Their lead quickly grew to 16-29.

Nehmie Mimbo endeavoured to bestir his teammates and opened the way for Chris Buckley and Tsui to score.

Shefield burst into the third quarter with the single objective of closing the 37-48 gap.

After only three minutes, the score stood at 49-53. The black and gold crowd roared as Shefield found their second wind.

Captain Jahmai Hibbert-

Howard equalised at 55 points, giving Shefield its irst glimpse of victory since tip off.

However, Hallam did not let their opponents take the lead and quickly regained their composure and their lead. As the third period came to a close, the score was back to a double digit deicit at 61-74.

Despite North’s exemplary aggression in offense and Hazem’s clever work in the paint, Shefield could not halt Hallam.

With ive minutes left to play, Hallam stood atop a 66-89 lead.

With one minute left on the clock, Joe Hensey dashed away from the Shefield defence to intercept a pass by Hallam and scored a lay-up, thereby reclaiming Shefield’s dignity in the inal moments of the match.

Basketball 1s come close

Women’s Hockey 1s cruise

Men’s Hockey 1s fall narrowly short

Reports: Across the courts

Harry King

Shefield Hallam survived a spirited University of Shefield comeback to win 3-2 at Abbeydale.

Late drama almost saw Shefield earn an unlikely draw after pulling a goal back with one minute on the clock, but time ran out in search of an equaliser and Hallam managed to hold out for the win.

It was a fast-paced game played by two high standard teams who both play in the Northern Premier division.

Shefield started the match the better of the teams, looking far more comfortable in possession, and Matthew Kettley was immediately causing Hallam problems down the right wing with his pace and dangerous crosses.

However, Hallam grew into the match following a slow start, and after a spell of pressure and several short corners were able to take the lead on 15 minutes with a well worked move.

Shefield responded well to going a goal behind, with Jack

Culmer dominating the midield, and not allowing Hallam any easy possession.

Eventually the pressure told, and just before half time Shefield equalised with their irst real opportunity of the game. The ball found its way to Marcus Hooper in space, and he ired an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net.

Hallam started the second half the better side, forcing several good saves out of Shefield goalkeeper George Wright, who kept his team in the match at 1-1.

However, even he could not keep Hallam out forever, and after a controversial call by the umpire awarded them a short corner they retook the lead 10 minutes into the second half.

As Shefield pushed for an equaliser, they were forced to leave holes at the back, and Hallam looked to have killed the game when they scored a third seven minutes from time.

With just 60 seconds remaining the tie seemed to be izzling out, but James Wright had other ideas. He controlled a hard pass at the back post and inished well to give Shefield some hope.

But there was just too little time left to get the equaliser, and even swapping the keeper for an extra outield player was not enough to force one last chance.

Netball 3s and 4sThe University of Shefield Netball 3’s agonisingly lost 36-35

to rivals Shefield Hallam with the game decided in the very last seconds of the match. Shefield were penalised for travelling moments before they thought they had secured the equaliser. Hallam had been six points ahead towards the end of the third quarter before Shefield began their ightback.

The Netball 4s won in a more convincing fashion, defeating Hallam 44-30 after some excellent attacking and defensive play througout the contest.

W VolleyballThe University of Shefield Volleyball Women’s

1’s suffered a disappointing defeat at EIS day, losing three sets to love.

After losing the irst two sets 25-15 and 25-16, Christina Venslavovitch landed awkwardly and required medical assistance with Shefield in a strong position. The third set was 25-19.

The University of Shefield Women’s Basketball 1s and 2s and the Men’s 2s all lost to superior Hallam opponents.

The Women’s 2s lost 62-23 in a Varsity exhibition game, the Women’s 1s lost 94-35 and the Men’s 2s lost 78-42 which allowed Hallam to win all four Basketball matches.

Basketball

Netball 2sThe University of Shefield Netball 2s fell to a

52-33 defeat against Shefield Hallam despite a strong start at EIS.

Shefield had led 7-2 early on but the side, for whom Ellie Hands and Frankie Bunting scored 10 and 12 points respectively, could not hold on.

Tenacious defending and sharp interceptions foiled multiple Shefield attacks, and a steady stream of scores meant Hallam had established a 24-17 lead by the halfway stage.

In the inal two quarters, Hallam scored 16 of the next 17 points to defeat Shefield 52-33.

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Women’s 2s Varsity point despite losing the game 1-0.

Varsity oficials ruled that the Hallam point would be given to Shefield after it had been discovered that the Hallam Women’s 1s captain and two other Hallam irst team players played in the ixture.

In the actual game itself, Shefield lost 1-0 following an own goal in the 22nd minute after a shot delected off Maddie Wilkins and lew into the Shefield goal.

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Rob Milne

In an incredible end-to-end game of Ice Hockey, Sheffield Hallam University ended up 4-3 victors over the University of Sheffield in the final event of Varsity 2016.

Fans from both universities packed into to Sheffield Arena to see Varsity’s centrepiece event, a sea of black and gold and maroon and white – the game ended with Hallam edging out Sheffield in a thrilling encounter.

The first real chance fell to Sheffield’s Rory Garrett, who was unable to convert when the puck was squared to him.

Hallam opened the scoring in the third minute when Jordan Ho was able to take advantage from a fast breakaway – undefeated Hallam looked relatively comfortable in the early stages.

Hallam’s Josh Nimms was the first player to be sent to the sin-bin, for tripping.

Sheffield equalised soon after through Jordan Sullivan, making the score 1-1, with a lovely flick into the roof of the net. They kept the momentum up when Max Gerstein rounded

four players before shooting inches too high.

Seconds later, against the run of play, Hallam’s George Bradbury made it 2-1, with a thumping finish. Intensity in the first quarter was high with Garrett making a brilliant last ditch challenge to prevent a Hallam one-on-one.

The second period began with a Sheffield power-play, with Dan Boardman just missing at the end.

Hallam were creating a lot of chances through their good attack and Sheffield through poor Hallam defence.

The fight that everyone wanted came when Tom Robjohns of Sheffield and Lyndon Taylor of Hallam threw down their sticks and fought for nearly a minute – embracing in a lovely hug afterwards as they were both sent to the sinbin.

Sheffield began their fight-back shortly after when Jerry Tang diverted a long range drive into the Hallam goal, making the score 3-2.

A minute later, Sheffield struck again with Tang getting another. The puck was squared to him and he calmly fired into the roof of the net.

Sheffield looked firmly in control, making chance after chance, with Hallam continuing to play on the back-foot.

A small fight closed an exhilarating second period, with the score level at 3-3.

The third period started slowly, with both teams looking to open up their opponents defence. - the only early chance coming when Hallam’s Sam Krempasky tested Wood in the Sheffield goal.

Krempasky didn’t waste his second opportunity on goal, putting away his shot and giving Hallam the lead with ten minutes left to play. Sheffield now had to push to overturn the 4-3 scoreline.

Despite some impressive pacey attacks led by Gerstein, Sheffield struggled to get any open looks at the Hallam goal and net-minder Matt Croyle was left largely untroubled for the majority of the final period.

Sheffield came close to equalising a couple of times in the closing moments, including a scramble in front of the Hallam net, but the victory and final point of Varsity 2016 went to Sheffield Hallam Ice Hockey.

Siddharth Solanki and Dom Lowe

The University of Shefield enjoyed a successful day of Badminton, with the Men’s sides winning both points on offer before the Women’s 1s suffered defeat.

The University of Shefield Badminton Men’s 1 did not let the pressure of potentially sealing a Varsity point affect them at all as they managed a 5-3 to win a point against Shefield Hallam. Unfortunately for them, the women’s hockey conirmed Shefield’s win halfway before through the Men’s Badminton event.

Ollie Cohen won his irst singles match quite comfortably, 21-1, 21-6. Cohen prevailed in the second singles match although he faced a tougher battle than in the irst, eventually winning 21-19, 21-14. He was by far the best singles player on the court. Kalana De Silva, the other singles players for

Shefield, only managed to win one of his matches.

The doubles teams won three of their four matches. Victor Yuan and Jin Chunlok won one of their two matches,both closely fought contests. On the other hand, Matt Olney and Freddie Matthers were in ine form and won both their doubles matches for Shefield.

Hallam needed to win the inal match to gain half a point but Matthers and Olney kept their nerve to win the match and the point for University of Shefield.

The University of Shefield Men’s Badminton 2s convincingly won their Varsity point in a brilliant display at Goodwin.

Yi Yang and Anuj Savani won both of their singles matches to propel their team to victory over a strong Hallam side.

Meanwhile the two doubles pairs, Shannon Chen and Sam Sin, and Ivan Tan and Jerrico Yeo, both won one of their matches to secure a 6-2 win

for the University of Shefield.Yang, Shefield’s irst-seeded

singles player, won both of his matches convincingly, not dropping a single game in both of his 2-0 wins.

Meanwhile, the Women’s Badminton 1s were beaten 8-0 in a comprehensive win by a Shefield Hallam side who were almost perfect all throughout the contest.

Hallam won all eight games against Shefield who could not match Hallam’s play consistently.

Despite defeat, Ellie Martel told Forge Sport: “I have the best team in the world.

We love how Varsity brings the University together.

“The support today was amazing.”

Elsewhere, the University of Shefield Men’s Badminton 3s defeated Shefield Hallam University Men’s Badminton 3s 5-3 at Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club. There was some quality badminton on show at the Goodwin Sports Centre. Unfortunately, as it was only an exhibition match, the win did not count towards the overall Varsity score.

While Varsity victory arrived during the Badminton action, it was this set of performances that added gloss to the inal scoreline.

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“Sing it, shout it, climb atop Inox Dine and proclaim it from the rooftops – the University of Shefield are the Varsity 2016 champions!” Those were the words from Forge Radio that greeted full-time at Goodwin, as the Women’s 3s Hockey secured the 2-2 draw and 0.5 points that conirmed a fourth successive Varsity victory for the University of Shefield.

A black and gold wave of jubilant supporters looded the pitch at the whistle to celebrate

with the side that has pushed Shefield over the line for two years running.

The match itself, played under clear blue skies and before a raucous Goodwin crowd, was packed with Varsity drama. Shefield dominated the early stages, and the pressure told after nine minutes when a cross from the right found Rosie Malone, who swept the ball home.

Lizzie Hall was denied by a sprawling save from the Hallam goalkeeper, but with 20 minutes gone Hall made no mistake from

close range, making it 2-0.It stayed that way until the

closing stages, with chances at a premium for both sides, but then Hallam struck twice in quick succession.

A irst goal was scrambled in with eight minutes remaining, before a remarkable equaliser was struck home moments later.

The game seemed to be slipping away but Shefield held irm, keeping Hallam at bay with the vital half-point within their grasp.

The whistle sparked wild celebrations from the crowd, who in turn informed the players of their success, and it was at that moment under the beating sun that the University of Shefield made it four Varsity titles in a row.

The Men’s Hockey 3s also won, beating Hallam 3-2.

Hockey 3s seal Varsity

Mixed fortunes for LacrosseChloe Coleman

The University of Shefield Women’s Lacrosse team won a frentic match against Shefield Hallam 16-6.

Shefield took the lead within seconds of the start before Hallam equalised moments later with a excellent goal from Hartley.

Moments after Hallam scored, Shefield took the lead again to make it three goals in the opening ive minutes.

The fast start soon cooled off for Hallam who conceded three more Shefield goals in the next 10 minutes before they inally added their second.

The Shefield side werent done with their attacking display and scored another three goals in quick succession to effectively end the contest.

The eight goal of the game was scored by incoming Sports Oficer Emily Roche.

Hallam had no reply to the dominance of Shefield despite scoring their third goal of the match.

Shefield continued to keep scoring at regular intervals with more goals after excellent

attacking movement. In the end, Shefield defeated

Hallam 15-6 to win the Varsity point.

The Men’s game was meant to be a fascinating encounter between a Shefield side that had won all fourteen games they had played this season, being victorious in both the league and the cup and a quality Hallam side in the division above.

Shefield started the game strongly and took a 2-0 lead after Joe Boag scored from Charlie Murray’s assist.

Hallam fought back and tied the game at 3-3 midway through the second quarter before extending their advantage to lead 5-4 at the half.

The game continued to be tight at the end of the third quarter with Hallam leading 7-5 after both sides missed some good goalscoring opportunities.

Shefield made it 7-6 before Hallam pulled away in the fourth quarter as Shefield began to tire.

Shefield scored the last goal of the game two minutes from time but it was too late as Hallam inlicted the irst defeat on the Men’s all season, winning 11-8.

Korball inish level Reports: In the pool & on the pitch

Anthony Phillips & Leona Owoyel

The University of Shefield shared the spoils in Korfball on a frantic last day of Varsity.

In the mixed 3s exhibition game that did not count towards Varsity, Shefield defeated Hallam 10-5.

Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio was the star player for Shefield, he opened the scoring in the irst couple of minutes to give Shefield an early advantage.

In the irst half, the game was very tight with good defending from both sides. Shefield had a narrow 5-4 lead at the break.

The second half of the match was all Shefield who began to pull away from Hallam.

More good shooting from Gregorio saw Shefield extend their advantage and Hallam only managed to score one point in the second half as Shefield won 10-5.

In the mixed 2s, Shefield began quickly, sailing to a 8-2 lead.

Hallam slowly but surely began to pull themselves back into the contest. Hallam scored three consecutive points brought the score to 11-5.

Shefield continued to keep up the good attacking display and added a twelth goal to seal a12-6 lead.

Unfortunately for Shefield, the Korfball mixed 1s could not bring home both Varsity points after an enthralling contest.

The game swung back and fourth with the score tied throughout most of the game.

With news of the overall Varsity score spreading round the crowd and the team, Shefield began to lose focus as Hallam started to play for pride.

In the inal 15 minutes, Hallam took a narrow lead and then extended that minutes later.

Shefield continued to try and keep up the pace but they were unable to stop Hallam from scoring.

In the end, Hallam won 16-12 to secure an inconsequential Varsity point.

Double defeat for Water Polo teamsThe University of Shefield men’s Water Polo were unable to overcome Shefield Hallam despite

some valiant defensive work, falling to a 3-9 defeat.Shefield started brightly but Hallam still managed to make it 0-3.Despite James Rafferty heroics in the Shefield goal, Hallam surged clear to win comfortably.An elite Shefield Hallam women’s Water Polo team easily defeated the University of Shefield

16-4 at Ponds Forge.

SwimmingThe University of Shefield Men’s and Women’s Swimming teams performed admirably but were unable to stop Shefield Hallam from clincling both Varsity points. Shefield had a number of second and third places in both the Men’s and Women’s events but Hallam took the most victories, and as a result the points.

The University of Shefield were dominant in the pool, winning both the Men’s and Women’s Canoe Polo event at Ponds Forge.

The Women’s side set the tone, winning 5-2 as a perfect prelude to the Men’s event.

The Men were even more emphatic, crushing Hallam 9-1 to take the point.

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The University of Shefield Men’s and Women’s Ultimate Frisbee sides both suffered defeat against Shefield Hallam at Goodwin.

Amidst the jubilation of Shefield taking Varsity victory, the two defeats went under the radar somewhat. Hallam Women ran out comfortable 6-3 winners, taking the Varsity point with it.

Hallam Men’s 1s kept Shefield at arm’s length throughout, and closed out a 15-7 victory.

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