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OW Sporting news
Sailing We have had a busy year . On 24 th April we competed for the Belvidere Trophy in J80 ’ s and our team ( Miles Jones , Tim Wolfe-Barry , Oli Gordon and Hamish Macnamara ) came 3rd behind Abingdon and Uppingham . On 14 th May we held our annual Cowes rally for Wykehamist yacht owners and men in the school . We started with a lunch at Royal Southern to mark Eric Billington ’ s many years as a sailing coach and also to thank Claire Webster for her decade as club secretary . The event continued with a passage race to Cowes , a dinner in The Royal Yacht Squadron ( with 34 attendees ) and round the cans racing on the Sunday . On 11 th September WSC were at Seaview for the annual event in Mermaids now involving school and old boys from Winchester , Radley
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and Ryde . OW ’ s won both the overall prize ( the Dog Bowl ) and the Reggie Bennett Cup ( School vs OW ’ s ). Noel and Richard Dobbs , Robin Garton , Adam Jay and Tiger Tellwright sailed for WSC . Casper Gray was the race officer .
On 30 th September we met at Port Solent to collect our Sunsail boat for the Arrow weekend in Cowes . We had a good practice day on the Friday in strong winds and a crew dinner that evening . The strong winds continued on Saturday and we ended the day in second place after 4 good races . There was very little wind on Sunday and we sailed one short race . We finished the regatta in second place . Our team ( David Anderson ,
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Miles Jones , Alastair Moye , Roderick Walker , Duncan Byatt , Gerard Cloke- Browne , Tiger Tellwright , Archie Chitty and George Lawrence ) had a very enjoyable weekend .
Our Annual Dinner and AGM will have taken place on Tuesday 8 th November .
We also note the sad death of Peter Hunter who had been a member of WSC for over 50 years . There is a moving write-up of his sailing career here : yachtsandyachting . com / news / 253735 / Peter-Hunter-passes-away Any OW who wishes to join our activities should contact the Commodore , David Anderson at david . anderson @ epladvisory . co . uk
Cricket There were two major themes that ran through the 2022 OWCC season ; roasting weather and close matches . Our two London fixtures , against Hurlingham and The Guards , were played in sweltering conditions and both were close losses . Our games at Winchester started with a draw against the Eton Ramblers , before twin defeats to the School ’ s Lords XI & 2nd XI at Wykeham Day ( one a tight game , the other less so ). The season started to turn with a lowscoring victory over I Zingari , before a fantastic Cricket Week in which all four results were possible deep into each fixture . Against Gemini , having earlier skittled their top order Henry Bertlin steered us home to win by two wickets . After inviting us to bat first , the Hogs required just 24 runs off six overs with three wickets in hand . They lost , all out , on the final ball . The Butterflies needed 50 runs with five wickets and plenty of overs still in hand . Two wickets from Jamie Roe , two superb spells of bowling by Jonathan Figy , and a sharp run-out by Rollo Quinault turned it around . We won by 18 runs . Our festival of cricket was rounded off with another
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