Stoolball news in May 2008

Look again at your team’s page on this website. If you’re adding fixtures and results you’ll now see charts showing your performance at home and away. North Division has joined Mid Division, Hailsham, Lewes, Mid Sussex and others in putting its fixtures and results online, so they can watch their league table update throughout the season. If your team’s missing out and you want to know more, contact us.

There are lots of advantages to getting your matches online:

• Access your fixture list from anywhere there’s an Internet connection - even on your mobile.
• Easily send your fixtures to anyone by telling them your team’s web address: www.stoolball.co.uk/yourteam.
• Add all of your fixtures to your calendar in one go, whether you use Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar or something else - no need to retype them.
• Watch your league table develop as the season is played - this can genuinely generate interest in your league. Ask us how to turn it on.
• If you regularly nominate a “player of the match” we can prompt for details when you update the result - just ask us.
• Charts showing your team’s performance home and away in the current season and over all seasons. It’s not too late to add previous seasons’ matches if you want to see how well you did.
• Once you’ve added a match you can edit it or delete it if you made a mistake - an improvement we’ve added for this season.

If you’ve any suggestions for how we could improve the match information on this website any more we’d like to hear them - please contact us.

This year’s Tillington tournament was won by Steyning who defeated Milland in the Final.  Other teams participating were Ebernoe, Liphook, Pulborough, Steep, Steyning and Tillington in one section and Fittleworth, Lodsworth, Midhurst, Milland, Northchapel, Three Counties in the other section.

A traditional Sussex fingerpost at the recreation ground in Fernhurst village.

Tillington has been running its tournament for over 60 years.  Unfortunately many of their records were lost when the Tillington Pavilion was burnt down.  They now hold the tournament at Petworth Park.

At the Three Counties Tournament at Fernhurst Easebourne won through to the final defeating Lodsworth, Midhurst, Milland, Northchapel and Three Counties.

In the other section, Steep defeated Liphook, lost to Ebernoe, then defeated Tillington, Fittleworth and Kirdford to go through to the final on a higher scoring rate.

Three Counties tournament 2008, played at Fernhurst

In the final Easebourne defeated Steep in the third over (of four) to win the tournament.

Hannah Lindsey (Steep) won the trophy for the most runs, Jeanette Hamilton (Ebernoe) took the wickets and Lauren Preston (Steep), the most catches.

Newly formed Smallfield Stoolball Team (formerly Horley) is looking to play tournaments this season.  If you have any spaces or need to replace teams that have dropped out please contact their Tournament Captain, Alyson Wright, on 07946 312065. Smallfield has a very keen team but not many tournaments to play! They are based near Gatwick but are willing to travel.

Crawley Down stoolball club is arranging a junior stoolball tournament, which will be played at Turners Hill in West Sussex. They would like to hear from anyone interested in entering a team. Junior tournaments don’t happen often so this is an excellent opportunity for any junior teams out there who would like to play.

The tournament will be for girls’ teams only.

If you would like to find out more or to enter a team, please contact Lucy Mitchell at Crawley Down stoolball club on 01444 443822, or at [email address available when you sign in].

The Management Committe of the National Stoolball Association met at 53 Kings Road, Horsham, on Thursday 1 May 2008 at 7.45pm. Topics discussed include BingoLotto, stoolball in Thailand and India, insurance, marketing and publicity, equipment and how to take advantage of the National Curriculum’s inclusion of stoolball.

Read more on Minutes of Management Meeting on 1 May 2008…