Results from the Essex County Team Foil
Held on Sunday 01/04/2001 at Chelmsford

 

Final Placings Direct Elimination Poules Plate Competition Press Release

 

Congratulations
Essex Foil Team Champions
Cyrano A ,
Well done Richard , Marco and Andy

Thanks everyone for turning out again for the last event of another season . The very welcome inclusion of the Cyrano contingent added a bit more spice to the competition and certainly made for a really good days fencing,.With Anne not bringing in the really big guns ( not that the team selected could be called little guns ) it made the top teams more evenly matched and gave the competition some quite close matches

Just one note
Lost - One Foil
Anyone found Kevin's Whitlock's Foil yet - it certainly wasn't left in the hall - Please check your bags -give me a ring 01268 412633 went missing in the afternoon .

Final Placings

Final Cyrano A Versus Chelmsford A
The day ended with a really good final that was certainly close and certainly had the audience on the edge of their seats , with every point scored being greeted with load cheers.

First Richard Kurzyca gave Cyrano a 5 point lead ,but Richard Simms fought back and took twelve points from Richard to put Chelmsford two points up at 24-22
However , by the time it got to the final two fencers -Richard Simms and Andy Eames the score had reversed to 40- 38 in favour of Cyrano and despite Richard staging a valiant fightback -Andy managed to reach the magical 45 with Chelmsford still on 41

 

Final Placings

Position Club Team Members
Champion Cyrano A Richard Kurzyca
Marco Cavarllari
Andy Eames
Runner up Chelmsford A Richard Simms
Adam Maclean
Graham James
Joint Third Place Cyrano B Madelaine Beevers
Anita Brackley
Joanne Reynolds
Joint Third Place Newham A Rod Smith
Frank Baxter
Khursid Khan

Fifth

   Cyrano C Iain Gardener
Mark Amos
John Eames
Sixth Cads Chris Mckenzie
Kevin Rushbrook
Mark Weathersby
Seventh Newham B Rob Baxter
Paul Marshall
Martin Cott
Eighth Wickford A Peter Brackin
Alan Jones
Ken Monerville
Ninth Highams Park A Kevin Whitlock
Andy Bourlet
Roger
Tenth Wickford B James Bashford
Demitri Brown
Steve Clarke
Eleventh Brentwood School Robert Coleman
Abbie Fawkes
Jacky Law
Twelveth Chelmsford B Don Cook
Matt Sellick
Dave Rees

Thirteenth

   Highams Park B Christine Brackin
Jane Lepley
Mark Linton

 

 

How they got there

The First round Poules

Whilst three poules were straight forward and went with the seeding . The No 1 poule showed how tight the days fencing was going to be with the seeding putting CADS, Highams Park A , Chelmsford B , Cyrano C, and in a poule of "death ".

The first bouts put CADS against Cyrano and H P against Chelmford both matches took well over an hour and went right to the wire with Cyrano just winning 45-41 and Highams Park winning 45-40 and it really showed that last year's champions were unlikley to have it all their own way this year.

We also had the only defeat of the day for Cyrano by a non Cyrano team when Madelaine, Joe and Anita only just lost to Chelmsford A 45-43 .- the last fight was Richard Simms versus Madelaine and although Madelaine had been given 4 point lead by Anita she could not stop Richard getting to 45 first

Also credit to the youngsters ( Abbie, Jacky and Robert ) the Brentwood School team - Although they didn't win in their poule they certainly had My team worried at one stage ( Ken certainly won't forget Abbie when she was winning 9-5 and they all took three points off Peter Brackin - No mean feat that )

 

The poule round ended with
100% - Cyrano A, Chelmsford A, Cyrano C and Newham A
66% - CADS
50 % Newham B , Cyrano B, Wickford A
33% Highams Park A
0% Highams Park B, Wickford B, Chelmsford B and Brentwood School

The Poule round we had two Teams with exactly the same % and indicators ( Newham and Cyrano )

This meant that one of the most crucial moment of the day came when Newham won the toss and were made No 1

 

 

FIRST ROUND POULE SHEET

                     
 

Poule
One

First Round

        1 2 3 4 Ind Victories
  1   CADs A   V V 41 +47 2
  2   Highams Park A 22   V 29 -34 1
  3   Chelmsford B 17 40   23 -55 0
  4   Cyrano C V V V   +42 3
                       
 

Poule
Two

First Round

        1 2 3 4 Ind Victories
  1   Cyrano A   V V   +46 2
  2   Newham B 31   V   +19 1
  3   Highams Park B 13 12     -65 0
  4                
                       
 

Poule
Three

First Round

        1 2 3 4 Ind Victories
  1   Chelmsford A   V V   +17 2
  2   Cyrano B 43   45   +21 1
  3   Wickford B 30 22     -38 0

 

                       
 

Poule
Four

First Round

        1 2 3 4 Ind Victories
  1   Newham A   V V   +46 2
  2   Wickford A 29   V   +3 1
  3   Brentwood School 15 26     -49 0

 

 

The DE

Unfortuneately, Because of the toss up, for Team Cyrano that mean't that all their three teams ended up in the same half of the DE and basically, they kept knocking each other out .We had Cyrano C first knocked out by their B team in the last eight and then the B team being knocked out by the A team in the Semi Final.

In the other half another close fight saw Newham narrowly defeated by Chelmsford A in the semi Final 45 -42

 

Direct Elimination Round

   


Tableau 16/8
Eliminated

  

Tableau 8/4

  

Tableau 4/2

  

Final

Champion
      1

Newham A
V45

 =   Newham A
D42		 = Chelmsford A
D41		 Cyrano A
   
  9 Highams Park A 

8



Wickford A
D 26
8  
  5   5 CADS A =   Chelmsford A
V45
12 Chelmsford B
  13 Highams Park B 4   Chelmsford A

4

  
 

3

3

 Cyrano C
D 22

=


Cyrano B
D27

 =   Cyrano A

V 45

14

  
 

11

   Brentwood School

6

 Cyrano B 
V 45

6

  
 

7

  

7

 Newham B
D 31

=

 Cyrano A
V45

10

   Wickford B

 

 

 

2

 Cyrano A
v45
   

 

 

 

 

Foil Plate Competition

 

Plate

The plate this year was on a DE with all teams ranked out of the top eight in the main competition going straight into the Plate
There was an an excellent standard of fencing with even the Chelmsford team that included Don Cook and Essex Captain Matt Sellick not even reaching the final being knocked out by Highams Park

Well done Highams Park the eventual winners after Wickford B took them very close (at one stage Wickford were 6 points up) Special mention to James Bashford (14) of Wickford in his first senior competition and helping his team to a final and from what I saw holding his own in the final against some seroius fencing from the Highams Park team .

 

Winners Highams Park A
Second Wickford B
Third Brentwood School
Fourth Chelmsford B
Fifth Highams Park B

 

 

 

Tableau 8/4

  

Tableau 4/2

  

Final

Winners
    1   Highams Park A
V45		 = Highams Park A
V45		 Highams Park
 





5 Highams Park B
D33		 =   Chelmsford B
D29
4   Chelmsford B
V45
   

3


Brentwood School
D40

 =   Wickford B

D39
   
   

2

 Wickford B
V45
   

 

 

 

Last Edit 03/04/01

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