SCCU home page
Detailed match results
updated 15.7.07
ECF NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP
2006-7
The competition has an age handicap. The older team, to win, must finish ahead by a number of points at least equal to the age difference in years (taken as an integer by truncation, and with a maximum value of 4). Teams winning on age handicap (or on board count if there is no handicap) are marked by an asterisk. Failing an asterisk, the team with more points is the winner.
For full details on scoring, see the Rules of the Competition.
HOW WENT THE SEASON?
The competition in its 50th year got off to a start in October with 93 teams. This was equal to last year, and a pale reflection of the numbers achieved in the seventies and eighties. The standard of play has not diminished. The Zone winners and Runners-up, who emerged in February, were as strong as ever. The National stage produced its surprises, in both Championship and Plate, and some favoured teams fell by the wayside.
The Finals, for the last four in each competition as always, were held at the splendid venue of Uppingham School on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th July 2007. David Welch, ECF Chief Arbiter, officiated (again, as always).
Few would have predicted that a primary school would be there. Aughton St Michaels from Ormskirk played in the Plate and were, in fact, the first primary school ever to make the Finals. Natalie Cass aged 8 may have been the youngest ever player, and she scored one win out of two. Aughton avoided whitewash but could not quite score well enough in either round to make the age handicap tell. Monmouth School took the Plate for the second year running, not without alarms on the way, and only beat King Edwards Birmingham on board count in the Final. QE Barnet, having lost heavily to King Edwards in the semi-final, won by the same score against Aughton to finish third.
The Championship produced some remarkably close matches. RGS Guildford were the only team to score a heavy win, agsinst Magdalen College School in the semi-finals. Favourites Nottingham HS in the meantime were making heavy weather of their match with Manchester Grammar School, but just emerged in front. The play-off between Magdalen College School and Manchester Grammar was the second board-count win in the two days, just going to Magdalen College School. The Final went to the wire. Nottingham High School, needing a win in the last game to finish, were perhaps fortunate when the Guildford player blundered. This was Nottingham's third successive win, equalling the record held jointly by St Pauls School (1980s) and Manchester Grammar School (1990s). Nottingham's 2006-7 team was Ankush Khandelwal, Kishan Lakhani, Michael Keetley, Oliver Exton, Jonathan Day and Daniel Lin.
A summary follows. For detailed match results in the National Stage, see Detailed match results.
CHAMPIONSHIP: NATIONAL STAGE
Round 1 (by 12th March) Haberdashers A (15.9) 6 0 Westminster Under School (12.5); Kings House School Richmond (10.0) 0 6 RGS Guildford (15.7) ; Rest byes
Quarter-finals (by end of April) Nottingham HS B (13.5) 2 4 Manchester Grammar School (16.0); Norwich School (15.0) 2 4 Nottingham HS A (15.2); Magdalen College School (15.0) 4 2 Millfield School (16.2); RGS Guildford (15.8) 4˝ 1˝ Haberdashers A (15.10)
Semi-finals Nottingham HS A (15.5) 3˝ 2˝ Manchester Grammar School (15.11); Magdalen College School (15.4) ˝ 5˝ RGS Guildford (15.10)
Third Place play-off Magdalen College School (15.4)* 3 3 Manchester Grammar School (15.11)
Final RGS Guildford (15.10) 2˝ 3˝ Nottingham HS A (15.5)
PLATE: NATIONAL STAGE
Round 1 (by 12th March) QE Barnet (14.3) 5˝ ˝ Haberdashers Prep School A (10.5); St Olaves GS Orpington (16.3) 3 3 *Haberdashers B (13.7); Rest byes
Quarter-finals (by end of April) Yarm School (15.9) 4 2 *Aughton St Michaels CE Primary Ormskirk (10.6); Woodbridge School (13.3) 0 6 K Edwards Birmingham (15.0); Monmouth School (15.3) 5 1 Eton College (15.8); Haberdashers B (13.6) 3 3 *QE Barnet (14.4) (board count)
Semi-finals Aughton St Michaels (10.10) 1 5 Monmouth School (15.1); K Edwards Birmingham (15.3) 5˝ ˝ QE Barnet (15-11)
Third Place play-off Aughton St Michaels (10.8) ˝ 5˝ QE Barnet (15.11)
Final Monmouth School (15.1)* 3 3 K Edwards Birmingham (15.6)
LOCAL ZONES
Zone 1: Lancs/Greater Manchester/Merseyside
Winners Manchester Grammar; Runners-up Aughton St Michaels
League Group
Moor Allerton Preparatory School, Didsbury, Manchester
Aughton St Michaels CE Primary, Ormskirk
Culcheth Community Primary School, Culcheth, Warrington
Haydock Sports College, St Helens
Bolton School Boys Division: Junior School
Knockout Group
Bolton School Boys Division
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
Marshside Primary School, Southport
St Georges CE High School, Marton, Blackpool
The two winners will play off for the Zone Championship.
Zone 2: N Midlands, Yorkshire & the North East
Winners Nottingham HS B; Runners-up Yarm School
League Group A
St Edwards Middle School, Leek, Staffs
S Anselms School, Bakewell, Derbys (group winners)
Hollingwood Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbys
League Group B
Heanor Gate Science College (A team), Heanor, Derbys
Heanor Gate Science College (B team)
Foremarke Hall School, Milton, Derbys
Nottingham High School (B team) (group winners)
League Group C
Leeds Grammar School (group winners)
Holmfirth High School, Huddersfield
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Junior School, Wakefield
Abbey Grange CE High School, Leeds
Group D
Yarm School
With apologies to Yarm, who would have liked a league
The Zone semi-finals will be winner of A v winner of B; winner of C v Yarm.
Zone 3: W & E Midlands
Winners Nottingham HS A; Runners-up King Edwards A
League Group A
Lanesfield Primary School, Wolverhampton
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham
King Edwards School (A team), Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham
King Edwards School (B team), Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham
League Group B
Gleed Boys School (A team), Spalding, Lincs
Gleed Boys School (B team)
Stamford School, Lincs PE9 2BQ
Knockout Group
K Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, Lincs
Nottingham High School (A team)
Oakham School, Rutland
Uppingham School, Rutland
The winner of League Group A will proceed to the Zone Final. The winners of the other two Groups will play off for the right to meet them.
Zone 4: Mid Central & East Anglia
Winners Norwich School; Runners-up Woodbridge School
Bedford Modern School
Beeston Hall School, Beeston Regis, Norfolk
Holbrook Primary School, Holbrook, Ipswich
Newnham Middle School (A team), Bedford
Newnham Middle School (B team)
Norwich School
Royal Hospital School, Ipswich
Woodbridge School, Suffolk
This is a Knockout Zone.
Zone 5: Mid Southern
Winners Magdalen College School A; Runners-up Eton College
Abingdon School
Dolphin School (A team), Twyford
Dolphin School (B team)
Eton College
Farleigh School, Andover
Magdalen College School (A team), Oxford
Magdalen College School (B team)
Wellington College, Crowthorne
Winchester College
Yateley Manor School, Yateley
This is a Knockout Zone.
Zone 6: “M25 North”
Winners Haberdashers A; Runners-up QE Barnet
Brentwood School
Colchester Royal Grammar School
Haberdashers Askes School (A team), Elstree
Moulsham High School, Chelmsford
Parmiters School (A team), Garston, Watford
Parmiters School (B team)
Queen Elizabeth Boys School, Barnet
Southend High School for Boys
Watford Grammar School for Boys
This is a Knockout Zone.
Zone 7: London North
Winners Westminster Under School; Runners-up Haberdashers Prep A
League Group
Westminster Under School
Latymer School, Edmonton
City of London School
Forest School, Snaresbrook
Knockout Group
Francis Holland School, London NW1
Haberdashers Askes Prep School (A team), Elstree
Haberdashers Askes Prep School (B team)
University College School, Hampstead
The two winners will play off for the Zone Championship.
Zone 8: London & the South East
Winners RGS Guildford; Runners-up St Olaves GS
Christs Hospital, Horsham
Dulwich College
Kings College School, Wimbledon
Royal Grammar School, Guildford
St Georges College Junior School, Weybridge
St Olaves Grammar School, Orpington
Trinity School, Croydon
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Wallington County Grammar School
This is a Knockout Zone.
Zone 9: London South West
Winners Kings House School; Runners-up Haberdashers Askes B
League Group
Hampton School
John Lyon School, Harrow
Newland House School, Twickenham
Twickenham Prep School
Kings House School, Richmond
Knockout Group
Haberdashers Askes School (B team), Elstree
Heathland School, Hounslow
Kingston Grammar School
Wilson’s School, Wallington
The two winners will play off for the Zone Championship.
Zone 10: Wales & the West
Winners Millfield School; Runners-up Monmouth School
League Group
Ash Primary School, Ash, Martock, Somerset
Millfield School (group winners)
Holway Park School (A team), Taunton
Holway Park School (B team)
Knockout Group
Bristol Grammar School
Monmouth School (group winners)
Torquay Boys Grammar School
The two winners will play off for the Zone Championship.
Previous years' results are in the Archive.
home