A group of our stronger juniors travelled down to Thornaby last weekend and several of them came back with medals.

Tim Bodani won his group and played a great semi, only losing 21-20, 14-16, 18-20 to Scottish junior Finlay Jack taking a bronze medal.  James Dodd won three of his four group games and there were wins for Jack Tilbury and Sonny Ho.  In the girls singles, Charlotte Graham, Amy Ward and Ellen Davison each scored one group win.

Tim and Charlotte have a successful doubles pairing in the mixed and built on this again to reach the final, losing to the top seeds 12-15, 15-8, 5-15 but taking the silver medals.  Ellen and Sonny had one group win.  In the level doubles, Charlotte and Amy won two of their three group games to take bronze medals and Tim partnered James, taking bronze again after winning three of their four group games.  Jack and Ollie Edmondson scored one win.

An early start was necessary last Sunday for our U18 team and the parents travelling down to Pontefract to play Yorkshire 1st.  Managed by Karen Daison and Daniel Tinnion, the team was:
Tim Bodani, Finlay Smith, Sonny Ho, Matty Grant, Charlotte Graham, Lucy Dodd, Ellen Davison and Natalie Ho 

This is Karen’s report on the match

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Our Under 16s scored an excellent 14-6 Shires League victory over Lancashire2 this weekend.  Fielding a team designed to broaden the base at this age group, we brought in a number of younger players to join two of the more regular boys.  The team, managed by Richard Taylor and Daniel Tinnion, was –

Ava Doyle, Eve Beechinor-Collins, Katrina Ho, Naomi Silva, Hugh Twelves, Jamie Grant, Ryan Cockett and Xuehan Zhang. 

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The annual Under 17 round in the Anglo-Scottish team tournaments took place just before Christmas.   The team was:

Tim Bodani, James Dodd, Sonny Ho, Matty Short, Ollie Edmundson, Jack Tilbury, Lucy Dodd, Ellen Davison, Charlotte Graham, Amy Ward, Teeda Prapunwong, Katrina Ho, Anna Kroon (guesting from Durham) 

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On Sunday 15^th December, the Northumberland Under 14 team travelled down to Pontefract to play against the Under 14 Yorkshire second team. The Northumberland team were: Jasmine Osborn, Naomi Silva, Reema Rajeev, Sophie Cockett, Mathew Jefferson, Oliver Heron, Ryan Cockett and Thomas Vicente. 

This is team manager Gillian Cockett’s report on the day. Continue reading →

Our Northumberland round of the BE Bronze Under 13 Circuit was held at TBC in late November and brought a good sprinkling of medals for our youngest juniors. Continue reading →

Northumberland’s BE Under 17 Bronze tournament was run parallel to the Under 13 event in late November and again saw medals of all colours won by our county juniors.  The honours went to Lucy and James Dodd, Charlotte Graham, Amy Ward, Ollie Edmondson, Jack Tilbury and Matthew Short who were all placed in the medal positions. Continue reading →

There will be a full weekend of good junior badminton at TBC on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st.  Eight teams from north and south of the border will be battling it out for the Under 17 AS trophy.

Come along to support Northumberland.

Last Sunday saw both our U14 and U18 teams playing their counterparts from Yorkshire.  The younger team are still very inexperienced and found the going tough, losing the match 6-14: but there were a number of games which were very close and the result could have been a lot tighter.

The Under 18s produced an excellent performance in a 10-all draw, although they were to some extent aided by Yorkshire missing one of their boys.

It is hoped that fuller reports will be available in the near future – if the team managers can take a break from Chrismas preparations!

The next Shires match sees our Under 16s away to Lancashire on 5th January.