Year: 2019

Winchester College Sunday, 3rd March 2019 STOP PRESS Organiser and defending Singles champion Maddy Raynor retained her title, beating Alleyn’s player Marth Nugent in the final. Maddy and her partner Alexandra Steel went on to successfully defend their Doubles title against Martha and her partner Dominique Redmond. Players: Maddy Raynor; Alexandra Steel; Martha Nugent; Dominique […]

Scottish Schools Girls’ Doubles Championship Fettes College, March 2019   Richie Murby reports: This year, as with last year’s inaugural Scottish Schools Girls’ Championships, 4 institutions were represented by a total of 8 pairs, from Fettes, Edinburgh Academy, Loretto and the Caledonian Club. The galleries were very busy for this event, and no one was […]

Representative Match: British Students (BUSF) VI versus RFA VI Alleyn’s School, Dulwich  and St. Paul’s School, Barnes Sunday, 3rd March 2019 Club Manager Hamish Buchanan reports: After a stuttering start, with last minute RFA team changes and sweating Alleyn’s courts, this year’s match between the best of the students against an experienced RFA team finally hit […]

Bedford School and Bedford Modern School Sunday, 3rd March 2019  Bob Dolby reports: In damp weather the organisers made some minor modifications to the schedule so as to complete a full programme of Singles and Doubles across three events: the traditional U18s and U15s, plus a new category — the U13s. The U18s featured players […]

Rugby Fives Association, 28th February 2019 There are some big changes in the Women’s National Rankings, prepared by Chris Burrows after the recent Ladies’ National Championships at the Manchester Y Club. First, we have a new Number 1: Louise Mathias. Louise currently holds 5 National titles in Rugby and Winchester Fives at open and U23 […]

Fettes College, Edinburgh 24th February 2019 Richie Murby reports: 13 players from four schools entered the draw for the Boyd Trophy competition — an expansion from previous years made possible by the switch of timing from a weekday to a weekend, and by the decent number of players involved in playing Fives at the Edinburgh schools. […]

St. Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday, 23rd February 2019 STOP PRESS: Oxford had the better of the day this year: they won the Men’s Match by 327 to 229 and the Beavers/Sparrows Match by 166-48, thereby winning the Jock Burnet Trophy for the second year in a row and the Fist of Iron for the third […]

RFA Tour to Scottish Schools Edinburgh, 1-3 February 2019 Following on from the successful RFA tour to Scotland in 2017 Hamish Buchanan organised a similar, but larger, tour earlier this month. In all eight Buchananeers made their expectant way to Edinburgh on Friday afternoon by rail, plane and car via pick-up points in the Midlands […]

St. Paul’s School, Barnes; University Sports Centre, Cambridge Saturday, 16th February 2019 On the Saturday before the 2019 Varsity Match the annual Past versus Present match was played for Oxford at St. Paul’s School and for Cambridge at the University Sports Centre. In the latter case it was the 70th anniversary of the founding of […]

Ladies Winchester Fives Championships Winchester College, March 3rd 2019 Entries are now open for the Ladies Winchester Fives Championships. Following on from the hugely successful Rugby Fives National Championships in January, these tournaments for the buttress game will be organised by Maddy Raynor and held at the game’s spiritual home, Winchester College, in March. Both […]