Chess Competition 2006

Posted on March 9, 2006 by admin

Congratulations to Aidan McCormack from Stags who won the County Chess Competition.

This report from the Bracknell News, Thursday 9 March (corrected)

A nine year old mastermind has been named chess champion for Berkshire Cub Scouts after a clean sweep of wins.

Aidan McCormack, from 2nd Bracknell cub pack, won the trophy after winning five out of five games in the County final. Up against 12 other packs from Berkshire, Aiden proved he was top strategist in the game. He had already won the South East Berks District competition (held last October) and had to give up a weekend at Cub Camp to compete in the County competition.

His mother, Sue, said “We were a little surprised that he won it but not too surprised. We have always encouraged him to play chess.” Aiden started playing chess two years ago after his father taught him the game. “He has really got into it in the last six months and become really good at it,” said Mrs McCormack.

Aidan, who attends Warfield Primary School has been a cub for two years and is seconder of Brown six. He is already plotting his next move on the board – defending his title in the competition next year.

District Swimming Gala 2005

Posted on November 27, 2005 by admin

The District Swimming Gala took place on Sunday 27 November. Once again the District is grateful to the Licensed Victuallers School on London Road for allowing us to use their pool for the afternoon.

As usual the event was split into 2 age groups with the under 9½ races taking place first. Normally, any one competitor is limited to a maximum of two pointed events plus the relay. However, the District have again relaxed the rule this year as otherwise there wouldn’t be enough teams to make it a good competition.

Well done to all those who swam. Our overall points score did not reflect the amount of effort that was put in by all our swimmers. Cubs who came first or second in their heats went through to the finals. Where a position is shown it is the position in the final.

Under 9½ year olds

	Sharks	Seals	Squids
1 width freestyle (crawl – start in water)	Robert Baylis	Luke Cowley Alistair Shields (4th)	Alex Evans
1 length freestyle (crawl – diving start)	Sam Holloway (4th)	Simon Quantrell	Sammy Lee
1 width breaststroke (start in water)	Robert Baylis (4th)	Luke Cowley Alistair Shields	Alex Evans
1 length breaststroke (diving start)	Sam Holloway	Jack King Alistair Shields	Sammy Lee (1st)
1 width backstroke	Charlie Wright	Simon Quantrell (2nd)	Jeremy Stephenson

Open

	Sharks	Seals	Squids
1 Length freestyle (crawl – start in water)	Cameron Shields	Aidan McCormack	Alex Evans
1 Length freestyle (crawl – diving start)	Chris Earle	Jonathan Rose (4th)	Luke Vassor
1 Length breaststroke (start in water)	Tomasz Szymaniec (1st)	Tom Butler	Matthew Chambault
1 Length breaststroke (diving start)	Chris Earle	Aidan McCormack	Luke Vassor
1 Length backstroke	Tomasz Szymaniec (2nd)	Tom Butler	Matthew Chambault
1 Width butterfly (no points for this event)			Luke Vassor (2nd)
The Plunge (Cub dives in, makes no stroke and glides as far as he can)	Chris Earle	Jonathan Rose	Sammy Lee (2nd)

The Relay

	Sharks	Seals (2nd)	Squids (4th)
1 Length backstroke	Cameron Shields	Jonathan Rose	Matthew Chambault
1 Length freestyle (under 9½)	Robert Baylis	Simon Quantrell	Alex Evans
1 Length breaststroke	Tomasz Szymaniec	Aidan McCormack	Luke Vassor
1 Length freestyle	Chris Earle	Tom Butler	Sammy Lee

In addition there are two MEDLEY events which are not pointed for the Palmer Shield but are for individual winners medals for the fastest times.

Under 9½ Medley consists of 1 width backstroke, 1 width breaststroke and 1 width freestyle swum consecutively:1st Sammy Lee, 3rd Sam Holloway
The Open Medley consists of 1 length freestyle, 1 length backstroke, 1 length breaststroke and 1 length freestyle swum consecutively: 4th Luke Vassor

If you were in our teams have you got your Swimmers badge yet? It is a five stage badge but unfortunately just taking part in the gala does not complete it – although it does count as an “organised event” for part 7. If you have swimming lessons just print off a copy of the requirements and get your swimming teacher to sign to say you can do it.

You can see how we got on in previous years by visiting our Past Events page.

Palmer Shield
The points from the events excluding the Medley and Butterfly are all added up and the winning team takes home the Palmer Shield. The positions were as follows.

Place	Team
1st	7th Bracknell
2nd	1st Binfield Torpedos
3rd	1st Binfield Sharks
4th	2nd Bracknell Squids & 1st Sunningdale Turtles

District Football Competition 2005

Posted on July 10, 2005 by admin

The popular District 6-a-side football competition took place on Sunday 10 July 2005 at Binfield Football Club. The Cubs entered a Stags and a Wolves team and Beavers entered one.

Beavers Team
The Beavers who took part were: Christopher Freeman, Alistair Shields, Alex Evans, Joshua Rose, Ben Morgan, Mitchell Garrington and Nicholas.

The Beavers won all four of their matches and therefore won their competition.

Wolves Team
Fraser Wood, Ben Wortley, Matthew Workman, Jack Jarvis, Sammy Lee, Jonathan Rose Rupert Viney and Alex Kent

An excited Shere Khan has filed this report:
Our first match was against 6th Bracknell and we dominated the whole game .We won this game 2-0 and Jonathan and Ben scored the goals We then went on to play Sunningdale Lions and the team had lots of confidence after their first victory. The defence played a fabulous game although the ball hardly went their end as the final score was 8-0 to us. Alex scored 4 some of which were set up by Matthew, Jonathan scored 3 and Fraser scored 1. They then broke for lunch and I was worried that they would lose their momentum but they came back after lunch to beat 7th Bracknell 4-0. The goals were scored by Sammy and Ben scored 3. Ben’s goals were set up by Alex and Matthew . As you can imagine by this point I had started to get a little excited that we had something special in our boys on the pitch. Our last League match was against 4th Bracknell and we started off well and really played well but at the end they got a little complacent and let the other team get a goal but the final score was 3-1 to us. Ben scored 2 goals and Rupert 1. This meant that we had won all our league games and had gained a maximum score of 12 points so we qualified as winners for the semi finals. The draw went our way as it meant that we played South Ascot in the semi finals and if by some miracle we got through then we would play the winner of Binfield v 6th Bracknell. I explained to them that Binfield were a tough team but we had an excellent chance if we could get to the finals. We started our game against South Ascot and Jonathan set up a goal for Ben . We then had a fabulous goal from nowhere from Matthew. Our hearts were literally in our mouths as we just couldn’t watch. After half time it seemed that we had relaxed a little bit and this gave South Ascot a chance to score. It got very tense with parents and myself screaming at the boys to hang on to their lead and defend our goal. It paid of and we won 2-1. Much to the boys shock and surprise we were through to the final against Binfield who beat 6th Bracknell. They started the game playing excellently and Sammy scored within minutes of starting the game. I don’t think Binfield at this point knew what had hit them. At half time our boys were really tired and it started to show when they went back on the pitch and in quick succession Binfield managed to score 3 goals. What a shame!!! The final score was 3-1 to Binfield so for the 4th year running Binfield won the football.

Stags team

William Hawkes, Michael Matthews, Elliott Garrington, Cameron Shields, Sam Holloway, James Morgan, Chris Earle and Eamon Rafferty.

Stags results:

Stags 2 – 0 1st Ascot. Scorers: Sam and William
Stags 1 – 3 Binfield. Scorer: Cameron
Stags 0 – 3 Sunningdale Tigers
Stags 2 – 0 South Ascot. Scorers: Sam and Michael

Stags Man of the Tournament would be Eamon in goal.

Shere Khan says…
I think that you will agree with me that our boys played fantastically and Mrs Jarvis did a great job of being our team manager. Michael Matthews Dad was also a star as he looked after the Stags team. It was a good day for Kingfisher and the Beavers as they won all their games so they won the Beaver League. They were definitely a talented bunch and I will be looking out for them to play for the cubs in the future.

This was a District Event.

Simpson Cup winners weekend camp

Posted on April 24, 2005 by admin

We ran a camp for the Simpson Cup Winners.

You can view the photos here.

District Swimming Gala 2004

Posted on October 30, 2004 by admin

The District Swimming Gala took place on Saturday 30 October. Once again the District is grateful to the Licensed Victuallers School on London Road for allowing us to use their pool for the afternoon. We are very pleased to announce that our Seals team came first and won the Palmer Shield. We also won the two individual Medley events.

As usual the event was split into 2 age groups with the under 9½ races taking place first. Normally, any one competitor is limited to a maximum of two pointed events plus the relay. However, the District have relaxed the rule this year as otherwise there wouldn’t be enough teams to make it a good competition.

Although we were hit by some last minute cancellations, we managed to enter 3 teams this year. There is a special mention here for Matthew Chaumbult in our Seals team. Although he’s in the under 9½ age group he stepped in to fill a gap in the open category. Well done Matthew.

You can see how we got on in previous years by visiting our Past Events page – click on the link on the left of this page.