Alfie Barbeary’s double helped to seal an emphatic victory in a battle between two West Country bomb squads as Bath booked their trip north for an Challenge Cup semi-final against Edinburgh and kept alive their hopes of a treble.
Barbeary scored once in either half as the hosts careered to a convincing result. The first was an opportunistic effort, the second a bulldozing run that inspired familiar curiosity about his potential to be a weapon at international level.
A place on the tour to Argentina this summer will probably depend on how many of England back-rowers are picked by the British and Irish Lions and Steve Borthwick has tended to favour mobility over power, too.