Inter County Bulldogs Team (U100 A) 2007/8

Team Captain: David Buckley

MCCU Inter-Counties Under-100 Semi-final 2007 - 8

Warwickshire 7 - 5 Bulldogs
Match played 8 March 2008 at Warley Quinborne Chess Club, Birmingham.

Match details not available

As losing semi-finalists, they could still qualify for the national stages.  By mutual consent, both captains agreed that rather than having a play-off, match points and game points would decide who would compete in the national stage.  Match points were level 6 - 6, so by 31½ game points to 26 in the regular season (37½ - 31 with the semi-finals), the Terriers went through to the national stages as the third midlands team.

MCCU Inter-Counties Under-100 Championship

Worcestershire 5½ - 6½ Bulldogs
Match played 26 January 2008 in Webheath, Nr Redditch.

Bd	Grade	Worcestershire	Score	Score	Bulldogs (Staffs A)	Grade
1	98	Ray Trinder	0	1	David Molineux	99
2	94	Maureen Clark	½	½	Rod Price	93
3	93	Terry Pountney	½	½	Simon A Jones	92
4	91	Fred Bateson	1	0	Paul O'Donoghue	90
5	90	Richard Collett	½	½	Bryan Hall	89
6	87	Richard Turner	½	½	Robert Brodie	89
7	87	Penny Wood	0	1	Peter Broomhall	89
8	79	William Pugh	½	½	Peter FK Evans	88
9	77	John Holmberg	½	½	Anthony R Meakin	85
10	69	Tony Taylor	½	½	David I Buckley	82
11	58	Ronald Thompson	0	1	Christopher Bateson	81
12	Ung	Neil Ryder	1	0	Paul Guest	69
		TOTALS	5½	6½

Bulldogs 7 - 5 Shropshire A
Match played 12 January 2008 in Brewood.

Bd	Grade	Bulldogs (Staffs A)	Score	Score	Shropshire A	Grade
1	99	David Molineux	1	0	Neil Sampson	94
2	93	Rod Price	1	0	Dele Ogundipe	92
3	92	Simon A Jones	0	1	Roger Brown	91
4	90	Paul O'Donoghue	0	1	Derrick Powell	87
5	90	Peter A Crozet	½	½	Andrew Jones	87
6	89	Peter Broomhall	1	0	Richard Gillespie	83
7	95	Bob Brodie	½	½	Paul G Broderick	78
8	89	John Fenby	1	0	Sellick L Davies	75
9	85	Anthony R Meakin	½	½	Alan Pickles	75
10	81	Christopher Bateson	0	1	Martin W Patterson	68
11	73	Steve R Wilson	1	0	Richard Szwajkun	56
12	Ung	Steve Micklewright	½	½	Steve Szwajkun	49
		TOTALS	7	5

Well done to our players!

Shropshire B 2½ - 9½ Bulldogs
Match played 17 Novemeber 2007 in Shropshire.

Bd	Grade	Shropshire	Score	Score	Bulldogs (Staffs A)	Grade
1	80	Peter Mellor	0	1	David Molineux	99
2	74	Athar Mehmood	0	1	Robert Brodie	95
3	61	Henry Graham	0	1	Rod Price	93
4	55	Christopher A Lovejoy	0	1	Simon A Jones	92
5	46	Jonathan Newey	1	0	Paul O'Donoghue	90
6	45	Mark Richards	½	½	Peter Broomhall	89
7	44	Huw Davenport	1	0	Peter FK Evans	88
8	38	Francis Rooney	0	1	Anthony R Meakin	85
9	30	Matthew Mellor	0	1	Anthony Collabella	84
10	28	Joseph Mellor	0	1	David I Buckley	82
11	15	Matthew Best	0	1	Paul Guest	69
12	Ung	George Birt	0	1	Steve Micklewright	Ung
		TOTALS	2½	9½

A team of Shropshire's junior players played host to our Bulldogs team (Staffordshire A) for the Inter-County fixture.  Team captain David Buckley told me that despite the result, Shropshire's players were very strong.

Congratulations to our team, and well done to our Shropshire opponents.

Bulldogs 3 - 9 Terriers
(Staffordshire A 3 - 9 Staffordshire B)
Match played 27 October 2007 at Brewood

Bd	Grade	Bulldogs (Staffs A)	Score	Score	Terriers (Staffs B)	Grade
1	99	D MOLINEUX	0	1	G LEE	97
2	95	R BRODIE	0	1	S BUNDRED	97
3	90	P CROZET	½	½	M ANDREWS	95
4	90	P O'DONOGHUE	0	1	J MONTAGUE	93
5	89	P BROOMHALL	0	1	J GATOR	93
6	89	B HALL	0	1	R DOLAN	90 e
7	88	P EVANS	½	½	P CLAPHAM	90
8	84	A COLABELLA	0	1	M WYZA	85
9	82	M CARR	1	0	K MOORE	83
10	82	D BUCKLEY	½	½	R WEST	74
11	81	C BATESON	0	1	C MUSTAFA	74
12	69	P GUEST	½	½	N McLEAN	72
		TOTALS	3	9

This afternoon's U100 Inter-County fixture saw David Buckley's A team (the Bulldogs) play host to Traci Whitfield's B team (the Terriers) at Brewood.

On paper, the grades of both teams were similar, but as the result shows, the Terriers ended with a decisive win.  The score quickly went to 6 - 1, but it was almost an hour later, before David Buckley's own drawn game secured his team's fate.

Because of last minute problems raising a team, the Terriers included players from as far apart as Kidsgrove and Walsall Kipping.  Despite the results, everyone taking part seemed to have a good time.
Well done everyone!