An improved second-half display could not prevent Witney falling to a 16-5 defeat away to Swindon on a heavy pitch.

Swindon scored two tries and two penalties in the first period.

Witney played a great deal better after the break and should have had more to show for their efforts than a solitary try from full back Luke Hollick.

The game finished on a sour note when Witney flanker John Campbell was taken to hospital after a nasty clash of heads.

Oxford University's trip to Dublin to play Trinity College on Saturday morning ended in disappointment, when the match was called off due to a frozen pitch.

OTHER CLUB RESULTS

Banbury 2nd 17 (tries Stula 2, Maynard; con Viggers), Buckingham 2nd 28; Banbury 3rd 22 (tries Blake, Butler, Downing; pen Haynes; cons Haynes 2), Southam 2nd 17; Oxford Harlequins 2nd 10, Hornchurch 2nd 10; Oxford Harlequins 3rd 47 (tries D Lewis 2, M Perisi, D Wells, H Plaisted, D Griffin, M Higham, S Cotterill, I McDairmaid; con M Denby), Wallingford 2nd 0; Swindon 3rd 0, Witney 3rd 22 (tries A Nicholson, D Nicholas, A Cotton, T Walker; con R Toase); Gosford All Blacks 24, Bicester 2nd 68 (tries B Coker 3, D Gould 3, N Smith, N Cox, J O'Kelly, J Barnes; cons N Smith 9); Bicester 3rd 36 (tries W Deeley 2, N Lewis 2, D Allsworth, A Jones; cons N Wilkins 3), Gosford All Blacks 2nd 0.