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Hertfordshire Junior CountyChampionship ReportBy James DickerBiggest Ever Junior County ChampionshipHertfordshire has a thriving fencing community with over 1000 fencersof all ages, from 17 clubs across the ten boroughs.On Saturday 25th April 2015 at HertfordshireSports Village in Hatfield, HertfordshireFencing Association hosted its biggest everJunior County Championship with 131 fencerscompeting in Foil and Sabre events over 13categories.Over the past few years it has been the goalof Hertfordshire Fencing Association to runlarge-scale county championships and givefencers of all abilities a chance at competinglocally in a top quality event.Thanks to recent developments within thecounty and Eastern Region with refereedevelopment, the association were able topull together a team of 20 referees for theday, led by the regional assessor Mike Ellis,who all put in a very long days work to ensurethe day finished well ahead of schedule (2hours in fact!).In the Under 20’s Foil, it was a double victoryfor Paul Davis Fencing Academy (PDFA),where Owen Grosvenor beat James Joy fromFencer’s Club London 15 – 9 in the Men’s,while Natasha Rajan beat fellow PDFA fencerAlexa Marroquin 15 – 9 in the Women’s event.There was further success for PDFA in theUnder 16 Boy’s Foil, where Luke Barbourbeat Rufus Carruthers from Fencers ClubLondon 15 – 8. While in the Under 16 GirlsFoil, Jasmine Porter from Three Rivers YoungBlades (TRYB) beat Gemma Caruana 15 – 5.In one of the larger categories of the day,Kishan Sisodiya won the Under 14 Boy’s Foiltitle after beating Sean Lindfield from FencersClub London 15 – 7. There was a similar TRYBv Fencer’s Club show down in the Under 14Girls with TRYB’s Amanda Mond beating LilyBird 15 – 9.Rafael Rhys Pollitt from Fencer’s Club Londonbeat PDFA fencer Alexander Culkin 10 – 2in the Under 12 Boys, while over in thegirls’ Henriette Hadalin from Salle Hadalin– Stevenage FC beat PDFA fencer AmeliaMiddleton 10 – 1 to pick up the Girls title.In the biggest category of the day, PDFAfencer Samuel Flury beat Salle Hadalin fencerFinley Warren 8 – 6 in the Under 10 Boy’scategory. While in the girls’ event, IsabelleJohnson from TRYB beat Salle Hadalin fencerHelga Hadalin 8 – 5.Finally it was the time of the Saburers, withJames Hall from TRYB picking up the Over13’s Boys title for the second year runningbeating, Michael Atree from PDFA 10 – 2 inthe final to retain the title. Over in the girl’sevent, Anna Dunham from PDFA beat NorthLondon Sabre’s Zahra Khan 10 – 9.In the Under 12 Boys Sabre it was a PDFA vPDFA final, with Ryan Cororan taking homethe championship beating Thomas Raut 10– 9. There was then another all PDFA final inthe Girls event with Gabriella Karouzis beatingEmily Parry 10 – 8.The event was everything we hoped it wouldbe, and proved to be a fantastic warm-up forthe British Youth Championship the followingweekend, with five of the competitors walkingaway with national medal placing’s, with thebiggest success being Henriette Hadalin fromSalle Hadalin picking up the U12 British Girl’sFoil title to add to her county championship.We would like to thank all the competitors,parents, coaches, referees and crewthat made this the best championship inHertfordshire’s history, and we look forwardto making 2016 even better!For more information visit our website ator email us at info@hertsfencing.co.uk.U16 Foil Boys and GirlsU14 Foil Boys and Girls16 THE SWORD JULY 2015U12 Foil Boys and Girls
REPORTSU10 Foil Boys and GirlsU20 Foil Men’s and Women’sO13 Sabre Boys and GirlsU10 Girls Foil Winning HitU12 Sabre Boys and GirlsJULY 2015 THE SWORD 17
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