Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/pqS0mLNorthampton Saints thrash Timisoara 111-3 and score 17 TRIES in Challenge Cup. It is one of the longest away trips in European rugby this season, but Timisoara Saracens' 1,336-mile journey to Northampton will have felt nowhere near as long as their time on the Franklin's Gardens pitch. On Friday night the Romanian minnows were obliterated 111-3 by the Saints as the Premiership side racked up 17 tries and recorded their biggest-ever European victory. When the teams were supposed to meet for the first time in December the match was abandoned 30 minutes before kick-off due to heavy snow. This time the elements could not save the visitors. Ollie Sleightholme grabbed four tries, Alex Mitchell completed a hat-trick, Mitch Eadie went over twice and Alex Coles marked his European debut with a score as the hosts saw 11 different players run in tries during the demolition job. Saints had secured their bonus point as early as the 23rd minute at Franklin's Gardens with Luther Burrell, Reece Marshall, Rory Hutchinson and all going over in quick succession. Timisoara made it onto the scoreboard with a penalty after 11 minutes from Luke Samoa but they barely advanced into Saints territory as the hosts ran riot. Andrew Kellaway, Lewis Ludlam, Nafi Tuitavake and Tom Collins also scored tries for a rampant Saints team as they secured their place in the quarter-finals from pool one. Victory keeps Saints' hopes of repeating their 2014 Challenge Cup win alive as they made it through to the knockout stages of the competition on their first attempt back. Remarkably Saints assistant coach Matt Ferguson insisted after the game that there was still some disappointment in the team's attacking performance. He told BBC Radio Northampton: 'We will have some frustration that our accuracy was not as good as it should have been. 'There is a difference between relentlessness and accuracy, so the will to want to carry, the will to want to play is different to keeping the ball. 'We just felt a little bit, on occasions, that some people got a little excited and took that extra yard too many. The best tries today came from when we played our patterns.' Clermont Auvergne’s 49-7 victory over the Dragons ensured they finished top of pool one with six wins from six. Fellow Premiership side Harlequins also joined them in the last eight with a 33-17 win over Agen.