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Junior News 2003 - 2004 Saturday 24th January 2004 The U14/U90 team beat Surrey by 14 - 10 overall, winning the first round with White by 6.5 - 5.5 and the second round by 7.5 - 4.5. The other county in the group is Essex. A very good start to the season. Full details here Sunday 18th January 2004 The Herts Juniors Finals were held at Fleetville School. The format was one section comprising Under 9, Under 11, Under 14 and Adults. Full results here. The competition was organised as one large group. Adults play on almost equal terms as juniors with the intention of accelerating junior development. Prizes included trophies and books. Monday 22nd December 2003 The Little Heath and Brookmans Park Christmas Fun Tournament was held in two sections, Elves and Reindeer. William Moss was chief elf and Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell was Rudolph. Ninety-four players took part - more details here. Saturday 29th November 2003 The St Thomas More Tournament Beginners saw a perfect 7/7 for Mindaugas Pakštas with Alex Kidd (playing in her first tournament) and Santino Galasso joint second with 5. The Advanced section was jointly won by the Little brothers with 5/6 although an unnamed adult won 6/6. Chris Bird was third with 4.5. Garo Heath was awarded a book prize for giving the aforementioned adult a tough game. Details here Advanced and Beginners. Sunday 23rd November 2003 Herts Juniors played a friendly match against Berkshire at Roundwood School. The final score was 55 - 35 in favour of Herts. Round 1 was 18-12; Round 2 18-12 and Round 3 19-11. An Excel file with the full results is here. Sunday 16th November 2003 46 players took part in the first HSCA Tournament at Brookmans Park. 28 players contested the Advanced section with Edward and Cameron Little sharing first place with 5/6 with Nishil Shah and Kaz Topham joint third with 4.5. The Beginners section (18 players) was won outright by Samuel Jackson with 6.5/7 with Davy Hogan second on 5.5/7 and Jordan Harvey and Madhi Elango joint third. It was good to see some new players especially from Essendon School. Results Advanced and Beginners.
Saturday 1st November 2003 A good turnout at Roundwood School gave two sections, 26 players in the Advanced section and 16 in the beginners. Full results here Advanced and Beginners. Daniel Fernandez scored a perfect 6/6 to win the Advanced section with David Lawrence second on 5. Matthew Gaskell won the Beginners with 7.5/8 with Jamie Harrison second with 7. Saturday 18th October 2003 Our first tournament at Newberries School, Radlett took place today. The competition was divided into two groups, Beginners and Advanced. Chris Jones won the Beginners with George Wickham and Samuel Jackson coming second. The Advanced section was honoured by two guest players, Robert J. Fischer and Nigel Short who competed with the more experienced players. Mysteriously the computer says they failed to score a point between them although they seemed to be winning some games! Michael Turner came out top with 6/6 with Akash Jain and Avi Baruch on 4.5.
Sunday 12th October 2003 Our London Junior Qualifier was held at Fleetville School, St Albans. The Under 8 section resulted in a three-way tie between Jeremy Snape, Samuel Jackson and James Abrams. A play-off resulted in the prize being awarded to James. The Under 10 section saw a comfortable 6/6 score for Charlie Hierons. The Under 12 section was won jointly by Michael Turner and Saravanan Sathyanandha with 5.5. Saravanan won the prize after a tie-break game. Older age groups do not have to qualify for the finals so we arranged a joint adult / older junior section. Jon Lawrence won with 5.5 points with Thomas Hierons as top junior. In the results 'Paul Williams was actually four people, Paul, Chris Cook (twice), Ian Beggs (twice) and Ken Dickson. Congratulations to everyone who qualified for the finals in December. Fleetville London Junior U14 and Adult Sunday 5th October 2003 The first tournament of the season was held at Nash Mills School in Hemel Hempstead. There were two sections Advanced and Beginners. Avi Baruch scored a perfect 6 points in the Advanced section with Akash Jain as highest placed Under 11. A big contingent in the Beginners section from Aston St Mary's saw Sam Deards take joint first place with Elliott Parker from Grove Road. Elliott won a playoff. Four girls took part. Radha Jain in her first tournament was highest placed girl in the Beginners just ahead of Emily Woolnough. Jennifer Cannon was just ahead of Gabriella Beckwith. Yvette Cook didn't play but was impressed with the potential of all four girls who will hopefully join her coaching sessions. |