The second round in the North Midway Under 14 took place in Sheffield on Sunday 8th February.  Christine Railton very kindly “volunteered” to look after the team and her report is set out below.  The team finished 8th on the day, of the 10 teams competing and the overall result based on the two rounds saw us in 8th place. (more…)

Northumberland’s weekend on the Bronze circuit has just been held.  There were a number of successes by our players but pride of place must go to Jonathan Elsdon who won the Under 17 boys’ singles and then added the boys’ doubles title.  The full results can be found on the Badminton England website and the following report has just been sent to the “Evening Chronicle”, hopefully for publication in the near future. (more…)

Our highly-ranked under 15, Ashraf Alam, has just performed strongly at the Lancashire Under 17 Silver tournament.  Winning all three group matches in two ends, he beat Gloucesteshire's Henry Jones…

The county’s Under 15 Shires League team made the journey down to Huddersfield on Sunday to play their rearranged match against the Yorkshire 1st team.  It was always likely to be a difficult match and so it proved, particularly as they were without no. 1 boy Ashraf Alam and then experienced an injury to Andrew Howard.  Andrew’s father Chris, aided by Christine Railton, travelled with the team which comprised the following players:
Anna Railton, Emily Harrison, Lexie Howard and Sarah Bambrick; Alex Jay, Andrew Howard, George Moran and Jamie Tinnion.  Many thanks to Chris and Christine and well done to the players.  This is Chris’s report: (more…)

Despite howling gales, fallen trees, hail and sleet, the Under 17s made it over to Appleby for their Shires League match with Cumbria on Saturday. Both teams were slightly understrength and were also one girl short, so they were only able to play 15 of the 20 scheduled games. But the result was a resounding clean-sweep for Northumberland. (more…)

The former Anglo-Scottish Team Tournament, played at Under 14 level, has just been reconstituted as part of the Anglo-Scottish League series and took place at the Tyneside Badminton Centre over the weekend of 3rd/4th January.  (more…)

All entrants have been accepted into this tournament and the names have now been published on Tournament Software. The organiser is now away until 7th December and will finalise the…

Ellie's Welsh roots took her back to North Wales a couple of weeks ago to play in the second round of the Welsh Junior Open Series under 17 girls singles. …

The acceptance lists and start times for our Junior Silver weekend - U15 on Saturday 4th October and U17 on Sunday 5th - can be found on the attached spreadsheets.…

The tournaments for Under 15, 17 and 19 were held at the Tyneside Badminton Centre this weekend.  There was some excellent play over the two days but the pick of…