FA Cup dream lives on for Bath students
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Your support makes all the difference.Bath University have become the first student team in 122 years to reach the first round of the FA Cup. Team Bath beat Horsham 4-2 on penalties on Tuesday night after drawing 1-1 after extra time. Bath played with 10 men for the final hour following the dismissal of the defender Alex Ball.
After five qualifying rounds, Bath now host Mansfield Town, who are bottom of the Second Division, in the first round proper on 16 November. Victory would earn the students £30,000 in prize money.
A second-round win would mean Bath could face a Premiership club in the third round. The last university teams to reach the first round were Oxford and Cambridge in 1880.
"Our target was to not disgrace ourselves," Ged Roddy, the Bath manager, said. "We work the lads hard, so they are very fit."
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