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17th April 2017 Comment off

Entry form for 2017 Winchester Fives Mixed Doubles Championship

NATIONAL WINCHESTER FIVES MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP Bradfield College, Sunday May 7th Organiser Alex Steel is now accepting entries for the National Winchester Fives Doubles Championship, a title which is currently held by Kathleen Briedenhann and Ben Beltrami (pictured above). In recent years, this has become one of the most fun and enjoyable events on the […]
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11th April 2017 Comment off

Entries being accepted for 2017 Scottish Championships

SCOTTISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Loretto School, Musselburgh, April 29/30th Organiser Neil Roberts is now accepting entries for the Scottish Open Championships, which will be held at their traditional time, over the first May Bank Holiday weekend. The event – played using the Cliff ball – includes both singles and doubles championships, but as is usual in […]
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10th April 2017 Comment off

Five in a row for Ellison at National Doubles

Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Saturday-Sunday, 8-9 April 2017 STOP PRESS: There had been mutterings among the game’s Grandees that this season was something of a ‘Changing of the Guard’, but there was precious little evidence of that at the sharp end of this year’s National Doubles Championship. The final was a repeat of last year – […]
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6th April 2017 Comment off

Beal and Hamilton are the New Masters!

The National Masters’ Championships Marlborough College, Saturday 1st April 2017 Organiser David Bawtree reports:  10 stalwarts entered the Masters’ competition on Saturday 1st April at Marlborough College. Our President, Bernard Atkinson, was a participant and also presented the winners with the Admiral’s Cup. Each pair played the other pairs one game to 15 and the […]
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4th April 2017 Comment off

Veterans’ titles for Cavanagh, Minta and Pringle

National Veterans’ Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire, April 1st/2nd 2017 STOP PRESS The record books will show that 2016’s champions retained their titles at the 2017 Veterans’ Championships, but that basic fact hides the struggle they faced to do so. Indeed, some results in the earlier rounds had seasoned observers of the game muttering about a […]
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30th March 2017 Comment off

Results from the National Schools Competition at St. Paul’s

National Schools’ Championships 2017 St. Paul’s School, 27-30 March 2017   Organiser Peter King reports : This year’s tournament was again played over four days with three age-groups; nineteen schools were represented, and it was great to see a strong showing from north of the border, if sad to have no representatives from a few […]
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20th March 2017 Comment off

Stuart Kirby does the double at the Vintage Championships

Cambridge University Sports Centre Sunday, 19th March 2017 STOP PRESS After many years of playing in competitions at all levels Stuart Kirby finally, and deservedly, has won his first national title in Rugby Fives: the Vintage Singles. And having achieved this, Stuart then went on to win the Doubles with his opponent in the Singles final, […]
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17th March 2017 Comment off

Entries invited for the Wood Cup 2017

Rugby Fives Association, March 2017 Organiser Tom Dean is inviting entries for this year’s Club Knock-out for the Wood Cup. As he puts it: It’s that time of year…The final rounds of the Wood Cup take place on the weekend of 22/23 April, so I need your Club’s entry. You have until the end of March to get […]
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16th March 2017 Comment off

Alleyn’s do the double at the National U13s

National U13 Rugby Fives Championships St. Paul’s, Sunday 12th March 2017 STOP PRESS After the disappointment of losing both finals last year when a year young, Gwydion Wiseman this year carried off both Singles and Doubles titles. With more players and schools wishing to enter than could be catered for at St. Paul’s, a high-quality […]
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14th March 2017 Comment off

New names on famous Barnes Bridge trophy

Winchester Fives Championship Sedbergh School, Cumbria, Sunday March 12th Harry Akerman writes: With four pairs withdrawing in the final few days before the tournament, the organisers decided to play the tournament as two groups of six pairs in a round-robin format, with the top two pairs going through to the semi-finals. A plate was then […]
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