England trio James Forrester, Andy Gomarsall and Jon Goodridge returned to help former club Bicester celebrate their 60th anniversary on Sunday.
Former Gloucester player Forrester, who retired due to injury, and Goodridge, who helped Leeds Carnegie return to the Premiership, were part of the Old Boys Invitational team that beat Cameron Brown’s Christians in Sport side 29-19 in the sevens competition – the main event of the day.
Gomarsall coached the old boys team, which also included Nottingham’s Ben Thom-pson, the former Bicester junior, who also played cricket for Oxfordshire.
It proved more emphatic than the sides’ earlier pool meeting where Old Boys edged out Brown’s side 21-19.
But they enjoyed more convincing wins over Will Morris’s Bicester Badgers 36-5, and Dan Spencer’s Young Guns 45-10.
In the semi-finals, the Old Boys saw off Anthony Lewis’s Bicester 1st XV 42-10.
On their way to the final, Christians in Sport defeated Young Guns 35-5, Bicester Badgers 22-12 and Tom Edgar’s Fantastic Seven in the semi-finals 27-7.
Bicester 1st XV saw off Tom Edgar’s side 29-7 in the third-place play-off, while Young Guns beat Ben Briscoe’s Younger Guns 31-12 in the wooden spoon final.
Trophies and medals were presented by Roger Smith a former club president and member of the original 1948 Bicester first team.
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