Bath claim Amlin top seed and teams

Bath will go into the Amlin quarter-finals as the top seed following their 54-13 demolition of Bordeaux-Begles at The Rec last night.
Semesa Rokoduguni grabbed a brace while Tom Biggs, George Ford, who ended the game a 17-point haul, Anthony Perenise, Jonathan Joseph, Dominic Day, and Kyle Eastmond all went over as the West Country side ended the group stages unbeaten.
Their top seed means they will now host the lower ranked pool winners from the Amlin Challenge Cup rather than face one of the three sides coming down from the .
In the same pool, Gwent Dragons beat Italian champions Mogliano 24-12 but finish third.
The Welsh side was trailing 9-3 at the break but two quick tries from Ross Wardle and Wayne Evans secured the win in the second half.
needed a miracle to make it out of Pool 3 following their home defeat to Brive last week but they did what they had to do beating Bucharest 28-0 at Kingston Park. It wasn’t enough though as the French thumped Calvisano 31-9 to retain the top spot and make it through.
In the last game of the night, Stade Francais ended hopes scoring seven tries in Portugal to beat Lusitanos 48-15.
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Biarritz: Jo Pietersen; Taku Ngwenya, Charles Gimenez, Seremaia Burotu, Teddy Thomas; Julien Peyrelongue, Yann Lesgourgues; Fabien Barcella, Jean-Philippe Genevois, Ben Broster; Erik Lund, Josh Furno; Benoit Guyot, Magnus Lund, Imanol Harinordoquy (Capt).
Replacements: Arnaud Heguy, Thomas Synaeghel, Francisco Gomez Kodela, Mathias Marie, Alban Placines, Dimitri Yachvili, Geoffrey Sella, Paul Couet-Lannes.
Sale: Rob Miller; Tom Brady, Johnny Leota, Sammy Tuitupou, Mark Cueto; Nick Macleod, Dwayne Peel; Ross Harrison, Tommy Taylor, Vadim Cobilas; Andrei Ostrikov, Michael Paterson; Dan Braid (Capt.), David Seymour, James Gaskell.
Replacements: Marc Jones, Eifion Lewis-Roberts, Henry Thomas, Jonathan Mills, Mark Easter, Will Cliff, Danny Cipriani, Andy Forsyth.
Cavalieri Prato v London Irish
Cavalieri Prato: Marco Ferrini; Niccolò Tempestini, Clemens Von Grumbkov, Ivan Crestini, Alessandro Lunardi; Toby Browne, Pino Patelli (Capt.); Cherif Traore, Lorenzo Giovanchelli, Victor Coria Marchetti; Filippo Gerosa, Ale Devodier; Alfonso Damiani, Alberto Saccardo, Giacomo Bernini.
Replacements: Andrea Lupetti, Nicolas De Gregori, Otis Lombardi, Diego Delnevo, Leonardo Della Ratta, Jacopo Zucconi, Gabriele Cicchinelli, Rudy Biancotti.
London Irish: Tom Homer; Alex Lewington, Guy Armitage, Eamonn Sheridan, Andrew Fenby; Shane Geraghty (Capt.), Tomás O’Leary; Matt Parr, Jimmy Stevens, Leo Halavatau; Bryn Evans, Nic Rouse; Declan Danaher, Kieran Low, Blair Cowan.
Replacements: Mike Mayhew, Johnny Harris, Jamie Hagan, Jebb Sinclair, Tom Smallbone, Topsy Ojo, Myles Dorrian, Ed Hoadley.
London v Viadana
London Wasps: Elliot Daly; Josh Bassett, Chris Bell (Capt.), Andrew Suniula, Tom Varndell; Joe Carlisle, Charlie Davies; Simon McIntyre, Tom Lindsay, Phil Swainston; Tom Palmer, Kearnan Myall; Ashley Johnson, , Sam Jones.
Replacements: Carlo Festuccia, Taione Vea, Will Taylor, Esteban Lozada, Guy Thompson, Joe Simpson, Andy Goode, Will Helu.
Viadana: Marco Antonio Gennari; Nicola Sintich, Daniel Rudolf Yakopo, Giorgio Tizzi, Gianmarco Amadasi; Juan Pablo Sanchez, Pietro Travagli; Giulio Cenedese, Antonio Denti, Paddy Ryan; Matteo Minari (Capt.), Joubert Prinsloo Horn; Federico Manuini, Andrea Denti, Mirko Monfrino.
Replacements: Luca Bigi,  Luca Marchini, Daniele Greco, Marco Pelizzari, Liviu Pascu, Khyam Steven Apperley-Iti, Keanu John Apperley-Iti. Riccardo Pavan.
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Worcester: Ben Howard; Josh Drauniniu, Ravai Fatiaki, Josh Matavesi, Josh Watkins;  Ignacio Mieres, Jonny Arr; George Porter, Ed Shervington, John Andress; Dean Schofield (Capt.), Mike Williams; Chris Jones, Sam Betty, Leonardo Senatore.
Replacements: Nick Seymour, Paul Andrew, Rob O’Donnell, James Percival, Richard de Carpentier, Paul Hodgson, Dean Hammond, Max Stelling.
Oyonnax: Jonathan Bousquet; Dug Codjo, Guillaume Bousses, Roimata Hansell Pune, Tikiko Koroivoutu; Nicolas Vuillemin, Johann Authier; Erwan Iapteff, Neil Clark, Ruaan Du Preez; Miroslav Nemecek (Capt.), Damien Lagrange; Mahamadou Diaby, Scott Newlands, Chad Slade.
Replacements: Salim Tebani, Lukas Rapant, Marc Clerc, Joe El Abd, Augustin Figuerola, Silvere Tian, Florian Denos, Thibault Lassale.

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