Ace Velacott snipes over for quickfire try double

■By BRYN PALMER

Edinburgh.........33pts Tries: Watson 23, Currie 42, Vellacott 53, 56; van der Merwe 67 Conversions: Healy 24, 43, 54, 69Bayonne............ 15pts Tries: Spring 17, 49 Conversions: Spring 18 Penalties: Spring 48TWO quickfire tries from scrum-half Ben Vellacott helped Edinburgh overturn a deficit and reach the Challenge Cup quarter-finals with victory at Murrayfield. The Scottish side had fallen 15-12 behind after Bayonne fly-half Tom Spring finished off a sensational end-to-end score nine minutes into the second half. But a typically alert piece of play fro...

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