Old Paulines win their 6th Wood Cup

News  Tournaments

St Paul’s School, Barnes
Saturday/Sunday, 22-23 April 2023

STOP PRESS A small entry, which nevertheless produced a full day’s play on Saturday, followed by a final on Sunday morning. Initially conducted in round robin format, the preliminary matches produced four semi-finalists vying for the trophy, and three remaining sides contesting the Plate. In the main competition a freshly formed Old Pauline IV defeated the defending champions, the West of England Club, who had been hoping for three in a row, while in the Plate, conducted as a three-team round robin, the meeting between the Executioners’ 1st IV and the club’s 2nd IV decided the destiny of the medals.

Results

Semi-finals: West of England Club bt Edward Alleyn Club; Old Paulines bt Cambridge Town Club
Final: Old Paulines bt West of England 150-138

Plate: Executioners 1 bt Executioners 2; bt Marlborough Town

Teams

Cambridge Town Club: A Ahuja, L Cook, E Kay, E Thursfield

Edward Alleyn Club: B Kirwan, A McCreath, A Naumenko, G Wiseman

Executioners Club 1: C Barnett, B Chua, A Pringle, M Suddaby

Executioners Club 2: W Chan, J Garratt, B Hale, S Zhang

Marlborough Town Club: H Bishop, W Bishop, P Folland, S Hendry

Old Paulines; from J Aquilina, C Brooks, T Parker, B Roberts, S Roberts, S Russell, D Tristao

West of England C;lub: O Arnold, C Low, T Maconie, T Watkinson