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Banbury Bulls’ relegation was effectively sealed by a 45-7 defeat at Worcester Wanderers.
Bulls are 20 points adrift of safety with a maximum of 20 available and a hugely inferior points difference.
Banbury started well and took the lead with a superb individual try from fly half Pete Papenfus, which he also converted.
Worcester battled back to lead 19-7 at the break, thanks to tries from Kieran Morris, Russ Marsland and Chris Griffiths, Greg Fincher converting two, while Bulls had Papenfus sin-binned.
Banbury ran out of steam, conceding further tries to Ally McLaughlin, Jon Hines, James Price and Tom Richmond, with Fincher converting three.
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