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Yorkshire Team Foil – Saturday 24th June
Yorkshire Team Foil Championships 2017
Date: Saturday 24th June 2017
Venue: Penistone Grammar School, Huddersfield Road, Penistone, South Yorkshire S36 7BX
Report time: 9.00am
Entry fee: £45 per team(payable to Barnsley Fencing Club)
Entries to: Adam Blight, 84 Glencoe Road, Sheffield S2 2SR
Tel: 07761 284378
Details:
This is the Team Foil Championships for the Yorkshire Region of the British Fencing Association. Members of teams competing for the Yorkshire trophies should be either normally resident in Yorkshire or members of clubs within the Yorkshire Region. All participants should be members of the British Fencing Association and must have been 13 or older on the 1st January 2017. There will be medals for the top 3 Men’s and top 3 Women’s teams. Teams may be mixed, though mixed teams will compete for the Men’s prizes. The event will be run using a system of pools followed by direct elimination fencing off for every place so every team can expect to be fencing for the full day. A good days fencing is absolutely guaranteed!
Yorkshire Youth League – Penistone 2017
The next leg of the Yorkshire Youth League will take place at Penistone Grammar School on Saturday 10th June. There are events for Under 10s, Under 12s and Under 14s at foil, epee and sabre. There have been some difficulties with the payment through the Yorkshire Regional website so here is an entry form to download – YYL – Sheffield 17 – Entry Form , people can email me their details as per the entry form and pay on the day or post completed forms to me with payment.
Please be aware that we will not be processing British Fencing Association memberships on the day and those taking part should should ensure their membership is up to date before their event. This is because applicants need to set up their own BFA account and some of the questions are somewhat confidential in nature. We will however hope to have an online computer set up for anyone who finds that they need to do this on the day.
As ever, we will be very grateful for any offers to referee and will be hoping to provide some form of meaningful recompense for this (funds allowing).
Temporary Change of Venue
Due to activities within the school our fencing sessions on these dates will take place at The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP –
May – 17, 24, 31
June – 7, 14, 21, 28
Temporary Change of Time
Until the 7th December Sheffield Buccaneers sessions will have to start at 7.15pm. This is due to a mix up with bookings in the school.
Yorkshire Team Foil 2016
On Saturday 25th June this years Yorkshire Team Foil took place a t Penistone Grammar School. There we 10 teams taking part and after three rounds of poules direct elimination took place. In the final were two Sheffield Buccaneers Teams, namely Sheffield Buccaneers Mega Buccs ( Mike McKay, David Alexander and Matt Fitton) and Sheffield Buccaneers Fast Buccs (Nathan Doherty, Ed Howlett and James Rutherford), the competition was won by Mega Buccs 45-36. This is the 5th year in succession Sheffield Buccaneers has won this event and the 13th year since the foundation of the club in the 1990s.
The final positions were –
1st – Sheffield Buccaneers – Mega Buccs (David Alexander, Mike McKay, Matt Fitton)
2nd – Sheffield Buccaneers – Fast Buccs (Nathan Doherty, Ed Howlett, James Ratherford)
3rd – Sheffield University (Joe Kerr, John Glancy, Joseph Igali)
4th – Sheffield Buccaneers – Young Buccs (Ayman ElAmrani, Phoebe Newton-Hughes, Alex Wakeman, Adam Blight)
5th – Leeds Awe (Nick Stokes, Bertie Mandall, Kieran Sinfield)
6th – Bradford – Misspent Youth (Paul Halliday, Will Lawrance, Guy Haley)
7th – Barnsley Fencing Club (Cara Chambers, Anna Fillingham, Nic Fillingham, Marco Zaffino)
8th – Leeds Shock (Paul Sinfield, Jess Ridout, Ben Mackenzie)
9th – Royal Armouries (Alice Boyer, Finlay Caswell, and Sam Jackson)
10th – Bradford Doomed Youth (James Hopkins, Pete Fletcher, Vyom Gera, Tim Noble)
Details of the first seeding round are here – Poules – Results
Details of the Direct elimination are here – Team Match Tableaux – Results
Petr Krasnov wins Yorkshire Senior Foil for Sheffield Buccaneers
On Saturday 20th February in the Yorkshire Senior Foil, Petr Krasnov beat Nathan Doherty 15-10 in an all Sheffield Buccaneers final at the Railway institute in York. Other fencers from the club taking part included – Tom Exeter – 5th, Mike McKay – 9th, Aureliano Finch – 10th, Ruairi McKay – 14th, Adam Blight – 16th, Ayman El Amrani – 21st. Check out the video of this event on our videos page
Temporary Change of Venue
Due to activities within the school our fencing sessions on 17th February, i.e. THIS WEDNESDAY!!! will take place at The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP.
Sheffield Buccaneers Closed for Christmas
Sheffield Buccaneers Fencing Club is now closed for Christmas and will be starting again in the New Year on Wednesday 6th January. Have a good Christmas everybody.
Sheffield Buccaneers Christmas Meal
Sheffield Buccaneers Christmas Meal
7:15pm Wednesday 2nd December
(no fencing that night)
At Proove Pizza Restaurant, 261 Fulwood Road. Broomhill, Sheffield S10 3BD
This restaurant was started by a former club fencer and makes very special pizzas. Check out www.proove.co.uk
Let me know if you want to add your name to the list.
Adam – 07761284378
We are the Champions……….Again!!!!!
On Sunday 28th June Sheffield Buccaneers won the Yorkshire Team Foil for the fourth year in succession, also this is the 12th time we have won this event since our first victory in 1998. Our club had three teams taking part amongst a total of 14 teams. Our winning team consisted of – Nathan Doherty, Ben Thomas and Adam Blight, this year we were without Mike McKay who was fencing for the British Veterans in Germany or Alex Spencer-Taylor who is on Work experience in Ireland. Our main concern was in our match against Louth who again were not able to field their strongest team as Andrew Chu was on Holiday, we met Louth in the semi final and our goal was to attempt to build a solid lead going into the last match which was to be Nathan Doherty V Sam Brougham, going into the last match the score was 40-24 to us giving Sam a very substantial challenge, as it was Nathan was able to beat Sam 5-3 to end on a final score of 45-27, In the final against Leeds we led from the start to finish 45-21. Our other teams were the B team consisting of – Alex Wakeman, Joe Kerr, Giacomo Spigler and Yuchen Zhang and our C team (decided they would prefer to be known by the more dramatic name ‘Batman’s Buccaneers’) consisting of our younger fencers – Ayman El Amrani, Ibrahim El Amrani, Adam Suha and Luke Hawdon. After an unfortunate defeat at 45-44 to Barnsley B our B team had to fight of in the lower section of the Tableaux to finish 9th, ‘Batman’s Buccaneers were very competitive and finished 5th and in fact were our A team’s highest scoring opponents in the last 8 achieving a score of 45-33.
Everybody had a really great fun day with lots of fencing for every team taking part. The final positions of all 14 teams were –
1st – Sheffield Buccaneers A
2nd – Leeds Fear
3rd – Louth Mixed
4th – Barnsley B
5th – Batman’s Buccaneers
6th – The Bull Boys
7th – Leeds Surprise
8th – Louth Ladies
9th – Buccaneers B
10th – Bradford Bulls
11th – Harrogate Ladies
12th – Leeds Royal Armouries
13th – Barnsley A
14th – Bradford Bantams
Results from the pool stage of the competition are here – Yorkshire Team Foil 2015 pool matches
Results from the Direct Elimination Stage can be got from here – Yorkshire Team Foil 2015 Direct Elimination
The video of Sheffield Buccaneers A team’s last 8, semi-final and final is here –
