Hornets.....................43 Loughborough S....38
■ By JAMES GALLAGHER

HORNETS managed to hold off the visiting Loughborough Students in a heart-stopping 12-try affair, jam-packed with plot twists, ascendency shifts and heartstopping exchanges.
The hosts were faster out of the blocks, capitalising on an indecisive Loughborough attack by securing the first score through fullback Charlie Carter, before the visitors responded through a furious score from number eight Tomiwa Agbongbon.
While the hosts regained the lead when Connor Vickery crossed the whitewash, it was followed on...