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S E Essex visit Roots Hall


Ball boys with SUFC manager Steve Tilson

140 boys, leaders and parents from seven Companies visited Roots Hall on 17th October to see Southend United beat Bristol Rovers 2 - 1.

14 Juniors were chosen to be ball boys:
1st Kyle
6th George, Jack
9th Nathan, Patrick
22nd Liam, Mark, Alex
23rd Matthew, James
24th Owen, Ben, James, Jamie

National Badminton success for 9th South East Essex


The team Rich,Edan, Matt, Jon,Tom

The 9th SEE Coy (Shoeburyness and Thorpe Bay BC) have continued their success in the national competitions run by the Boys Brigade. The Badminton team comprising Richard Churton, Matthew Payne, Tom Sibthorpe, Edan Cohen and Jonathan Morell are the top team in England and Wales after the National Finals in Scotland.

Following an early evening flight from Stansted to Glasgow, they arrived in Sportscotland’s National Centre in Largs, North Ayrshire where they met the other teams. They qualified through a competition that is a knockout tournament in which the top two teams in England and Wales go forward to play teams from Scotland and Ireland. Over 110 teams entered the competition this year. In the knockout stages, the team have beaten teams from Clacton-on-Sea, Nottingham and Warrington to reach the National Finals.

On the Saturday an early start was followed by the competition itself. The team of four (plus a reserve) played six doubles games of ‘best of three’ sets in matches against the eventual winners (Polmont from Scotland) and the runners up (Mountjoy from Northern Ireland). The final round saw the lads drawn against the other English team who were from Crowborough in Sussex who they beat to claim the top spot in England and Wales and came fifth overall.

The finals were organised and overseen by tournament referee and umpires from Badminton Scotland who gave up their time to volunteer to make this a memorable final for everyone there. Later that evening, following a selection of music by a bagpipe and drum band by the local Boys Brigade Company, awards were presented at a Civic Reception hosted by the Provost of North Ayrshire Council. The meal included traditional Scottish dishes such as haggis (piped in by a lone piper), neaps and tatties and clootie dumpling. They returned after some sight-seeing on the Sunday evening, tired, pleased with their progress over the competition and looking forward to the start of the next season.