Another narrow loss to Stade Francais has seen Bath's Heineken Cup campaign end for another season. The French glamour club prevailed in poor conditions in Pars 15-13 with a brace of tries to free running winger Julien Arias being the highlight. The hosts had led 15-3 but a Michael Claassens try and points from the boot of Nicky Little gave the visitors hope of the win. Stade were kept scoreless in the second stanza after leading 15-10 at the break, Bath could not get the gto ahead score and now face the unwanted prospect of a dead rubber next week. Stade are now top of Pool 4 with Ulster in 2nd spot Stade Francais Tries: Arias 2, Con: Beauxis Pen: Beauxis Bath Tries: Claassens, Con: Little Pen: Little 2 Stade Français: 15 Lionel Beauxis, 14 Julien Arias, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Geoffroy Messina, 11 Mirco Bergamasco, 10 Ignacio Mieres, 9 Hugo Southwell, 8 Juan Leguizamon, 7 Pierre Rabadan, 6 James Haskell, 5 Pascal Pape, 4 Tom Palmer, 3 Sylvain Marconnet, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski, 1 Rodrigo Roncero. Replacements: 16 Benjamin Kayser, 17 Rabah Slimani, 18 Pedro Ledesma, 19 Pierre Vigouroux, 20 Antoine Burban, 21 Aristide Barraud, 22 Guillaume Bousses, 23 Mark Gasnier. Bath: 15 Joe Maddock, 14 Michael Stephenson, 13 Matt Carraro, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Matt Banahan, 10 Nicky Little, 9 Michael Claassens, 8 Luke Watson, 7 Jules Salvi, 6 Andrew Beattie, 5 Peter Short, 4 Danny Grewcock, 3 David Wilson, 2 Lee Mears, 1 David Flatman. Replacements: 16 Pieter Dixon, 17 David Barnes, 18 Duncan Bell, 19 Stuart Hooper, 20 Ben Skirving, 21 Scott Bemand, 22 Ryan Davis, 23 Jack Cuthbert.

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