Competition Results for September 2011

The Saxon summer BBQ will be Saturday 12th July 12.30-3.30pm. The venue is the Fred and Sharon’s house at 14 Norman Way, West Acton, W30AU Make sure to email and confirm your attendance (by email to Sharon.a.mchale@gmail.com) as soon as possible, if there isn’t enough interest the event may be canceled and we don’t want that happening.

On sunday 29th March, to celebrate our 50th anniversary, Saxon hosted its Golden Anniversary Novice Foil at St. Benedict’s School. 27 Fencers from as far afield as Eton and Fulham gathered to compete in the competition for fencers with less than 2 years in the sport. Two rounds of mixed poules, (round robin mini-leagues of…

Saxon Novices – 2ND April A quiet month got off to big start for a number of Saxon members with the third Saxon Novice Competition. The men’s foil was dominated by two young fencers from other clubs – Edward Sage of St Nuits and the winner Conner Manning of Kingston, although mention should be made…

Mens Foil D Standen – last 64 N Mort – last 64 P Lowen – last 128 P Dempsey – last 128 C Mollard – last 128 P Harden – cut Womens Foil D Szokolovics – Gold C Wilton – last 64 Full results can be found here

Mens Foil 48     Christopher Mollard 66     David Standen 74     Paul Lowen 83     Nick Mort 95     Edz Maldoom 153  Patrick Dempsey 189  Hamish Chan 192  Paul Harden 228  Wayil Eisa 243  Alex Williamson 426  Alex Chatterton 457  Oliver Robinson 459  Michael Thomas 486  Anthony Brown 486…

Prologue Saxon teams took a number of trophies home from the Bowden Cup mixed team competition in Guildford. Saxon fielded two teams. The Huscarls, named for the household warriors of Saxon nobility, was led by Paul Lowen, who fought foil along with epeeist Grant Smith and Sabreur Simon Whitaker. The Fyrd, after the feudal levy…