Saturday Junior Coaching (29th March)

This Saturday (29th March) we will be running all three coaching sessions. The first session is from 9.00 to 10.30 for beginners and the second is from 10.30 to 12.00 for more advanced players. And the final most advanced session (Gods, Godesses, and DemiGods) is from 12.00 to 2.00pm.

Remember that eye-protection should be worn for all junior sessions.

9.00 - 10.30 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens and Steve Swanton
10.30 - 12.00 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens and Steve Swanton
12.00 - 14.00 session. Coaches: Mike Macnamee and Martyn Symmons

Another excellent county league result for Comberton Juniors

Our First Team narrowly failed to make it a hat-trick of wins for our junior teams this season, coming home second to Hunts County, but finishing comfortably ahead of Hunts Leisure and St Ivo.

With Rory Symmons missing the whole season through injury and Andy Hall unavailable because of work commitments we were heavily reliant on Nils Downes, Euan Macnamee and Ben Stutchbury, with Matt Cole and Tom Symmons in supporting roles in the latter part of the season. Going in to our final fixture there was little to choose between us and Hunts County, but our number 3, Tom, was still recovering from a bout of illness and was unable to compete effectively as a result. So despite strong performances from Euan at #1 and Ben at #2 we couldn’t make up the necessary ground on our main rivals, even though we beat them 9-5 on the day.

Final points tally for the Premier Division:-

1. Hunts County 55 points
2. Comberton 46 points
3. Hunts Leisure 29 points
4. St Ivo 27 points


Ray Scrivens

team manager

Comberton Juniors secure County Junior League Division II title

Following hard on the heels of our Junior Third team’s Division III title the Second Team have wrapped up Division II after another convincing performance at Crown Lodge on 16 March.

In contrast to the Third Team, the Second Team squad has been rotated a lot through the season, with a total of nine players representing the Club in Division II. It’s an indication of our strength that we’ve still managed to win the division by a comfortable margin.

Our team for the final fixture was Ollie Thorne, Tom Blair, and Will Collett. In the match against St Ivo,Will battled to find consistency, but still came very close to levelling the match at one game all before losing 3-0. Tom recorded a comprehensive win, conceding only three points in his match, and Ollie maintained control over a skilful opponent to gain a 3-0 win, giving us a 9-3 victory overall.

Our other scheduled opponents, Fenland, failed to raise a team, so we had a 12-0 walkover there. Instead we played a friendly against Hunts County, and it was gratifying to see all three Comberton players victorious in their friendly matches!

Final points tally in Division II:-

1.Comberton – 114
2.Hunts County – 87
3.St Ivo – 70
4.Melbourn – 44
5.Crown Lodge – 41
6.Fenland – 38


Ray Scrivens
Team Manager

Saturday Junior Coaching (22nd March)

This Saturday (22nd March) we will be running all three coaching sessions. The first session is from 9.00 to 10.30 for beginners and the second is from 10.30 to 12.00 for more advanced players. And the final most advanced session (Gods, Godesses, and DemiGods) is from 12.00 to 2.00pm.

This the last session of the term so remember it's your last chance to get Squads of Gosh internal league matches played.

Remember that eye-protection should be worn for all junior sessions.

9.00 - 10.30 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens, Steve Swanton, and Nick Dickens
10.30 - 12.00 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens, Steve Swanton, and David Downes
12.00 - 14.00 session. Coaches: Mike Macnamee and Martyn Symmons

Agricole Cup Under-19 mixed age doubles results.

The Agricole Cup is a new fun Club Tournament played between teams of mixed ages - one Comberton junior and one Comberton senior player. On Sunday 17th March we played the under-19 age competition - obviously it is only the junior that the age limit applies to! We had several father:son partnerships and also other senior players bravely stepped forward when some fathers were not available. Unfortunately we had no mother:son or father:daughter or mother:daughter teams but we hope to have some of these in the forthcoming under-16 age competition.

The Agricole Cup is kindly sponsored by Jeremy Cole's company Agricole Ltd.

Well done to all the teams that turned out at the Club on Sunday and played a really competitive and good spirited competition. It was a learning experience for everyone - the games were intensive and demanding - often played at a blistering pace but alway highly entertaining for the spectators. Everyone's focus and energy held up amazingly through the whole day.

Rallies were played with incredible skill and quick reactions and most importantly safely. Lets were numerous but everyone accepted this with good grace. Mainly since it was obvious that there were actually very few winning shot openings so a let was usually the fairest outcome. Also because it was obvious how hard everyone was working keep things going as smoothly as possible.

We played a round robin of best of three games, PAR scoring to 15. The final order was:

1st. Nils Downes and Colin Walker;
2nd. Ben and Neil Stuchbury;
3rd. Euan and Mike Macnamee;
4th. Rory and Martyn Symmons;
5th. Matt Cole and Steve Swanton.

Congratulations to our winners - an excellent combination of two very cool-headed and fit players - and special thanks to Colin for stepping in when Nils's father David was not able to play on this Sunday (although he had a chance to try out the partnership during last weeks practice).

Although ending up with the wooden spoon, Matt and Steve put up an excellent fight - there was only 2 points in it between them and Rory and Martyn - and one of these was decided on a tie-break in the third game between them!

Agricole Cup Under-19s this Sunday

We will be holding the inaugural Agricole mixed-age doubles competition this Sunday (16th March) starting at 11.45. This will be only the Under-19 event since there was a clash for the U-16 line-up with a Duke of Edinburgh expedition.

Based on the practice sessions last weekend the father-son pairing of Neil and Ben Stutchbury are the top seeds for the competition. This will be a round-robin league with everyone playing everyone and so it will be a real test of the focus of the teams.

Feel free to drop by and support the players.

The Under-16 event will be held in a few weeks' time.

The Agricole Cup is kindly sponsored by Agricole Ltd http://www.agricole.co.uk. The trophies will be awarded on the Club Tournament Finals Day which is the 11th May.

Saturday Junior Coaching (15th March)

This Saturday (15th March) we will be running all three coaching sessions. The first session is from 9.00 to 10.30 for beginners and the second is from 10.30 to 12.00 for more advanced players. And the final most advanced session (Gods, Godesses, and DemiGods) is from 12.00 to 2.00pm.

We are into the last week of the term so remember to think about your Squads of Gosh internal league matches and try to play one if you can find an opponent.

Remember that eye-protection should be worn for all junior sessions.

9.00 - 10.30 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens, Steve Swanton, and Tim Mears
10.30 - 12.00 session. Coaches: Ray Scrivens, Steve Swanton, and Ben Stutchbury
12.00 - 14.00 session. Coaches: Mike Macnamee and Martyn Symmons

Saturday Junior Coaching (8th March)

This Saturday (8th March) we will be running all three coaching sessions. The first session is from 9.00 to 10.30 for beginners and the second is from 10.30 to 12.00 for more advanced players. And the final most advanced session (Gods, Godesses, and DemiGods) is from 12.00 to 2.00pm.

Remember to think about your Squads of Gosh internal league matches and try to play one if you can find an opponent.

Remember that eye-protection should be worn for all junior sessions.

9.00 - 10.30 session. Coaches: Steve Swanton and Nick Dickens
10.30 - 12.00 session. Coaches: Steve Swanton, Andy Thorne, and Martyn Symmons
12.00 - 14.00 session. Coaches: Mike Macnamee and Martyn Symmons

Comberton third team win their county league!

After yesterday’s final fixture in this season’s Division 3 of the Tucker Gardner County Junior Leagues Comberton have clinched the title!

It’s been a tremendous performance this season from our team of players, all of whom are new to the County Junior Leagues. The trophy will be presented at the End of Season League Tournament in April.

Yesterday we began our home fixture against Melbourn, with Tim Lloyd-Kinnings at #3, making his debut for the team, up against the powerful serving of Faith Mutti. Tim played well to take the first game, but was gradually overwhelmed by Faith’s serves and eventually lost 3-1. Alban Fernandez lost a tight opening game 10-9, but then grew in focus and confidence to run out a 3-1 winner. Sam Bradshaw at #1 wasn’t greatly troubled by his opponent and a 3-0 victory gave us an overall win against Melbourn.

Our other opponents, St Ivo, arrived with only two players, so Alex Gooding got a walkover at #3! Alban had his second close match of the afternoon, and though he fought back from 2-0 down to take the third game he ended up losing 3-1. Sam once again secured the overall win with an even more comprehensive victory than in his first match!

Ray Scrivens - Team manager.


Full results:

Comberton 3 vs Melbourn 2

1.Sam Bradshaw beat Matthew Evans 9-3 9-0 9-4
2.Alban Fernandez beat Joseph Weavers 9-10 9-6 9-6 9-5
3.Tim Lloyd-Kinnings lost to Faith Mutti 9-6 1-9 2-9 4-9

Comberton 10 points, Melbourn 4 points


Comberton 3 vs St Ivo 4

1.Sam Bradshaw beat Alex Cleland 9-0 9-0 9-3
2.Alban Fernandez lost to Natalie Caulkett 8-10 7-9 9-3 4-9
3.Alex Gooding w/o

Comberton 10 points, St Ivo 3 points


Final positions in Division 3:

1: Comberton – 63 points ;
2: Hunts County – 41 points ;
3: St Ivo – 32 points ;
4: Melbourn – 29 points.