Blackburn Presentation Evening – Details

The Blackburn Badminton presentation will take place on 24th May at The Adelaide Suite in Accrington from 7pm. Please note the date has changed from that previously advertised.

Tickets this year are £13 per person and £10 for junior players (under 18s). Please encourage members of your club to support the presentation, particularly if you have won a tournament or division, represented the town team or may be in with a chance of winning the Cup.

If you would like tickets, please contact either me or Jenny Woods (both from Blackburn Seniors). We need to confirm numbers by the 12th May.

If you have any questions about the presentation, please feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,

Claire Edmundson

claire.edmundson@hotmail.co.uk

 

Blackburn Presentation Evening – Change of Date

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Blackburn Presentation is now on 24th May instead of 17th May, please make a note in your diaries.

Next Cup Round

The next cup round will take place between the 10th and 14th March, details to follow.

New Website

We’ve had to move the website fairly quickly due to a security issue with the old software.

All the content should now have been migrated but I’m still putting the finishing touches to the design.

I’ve taken the opportunity to simplify a few things, any comments or query’s please use the contact form to get in touch.

U18 Tournament Winners

 Boys singles

Winner-Cameron Holt (Telecom)

Runner up- Rhys Holt (Telecom)

Girls singles

Winner- Hayley Wilson (Blackburn Seniors

Runner up- Lily Edmundson (Blackburn Seniors)

Boys doubles

Winners- Connor Bell (Blackburn Seniors) & Morgan Shanks (Blackburn Seniors coaching)

Runners up- Cameron Holt (Telecom) & Luke Quigley (Blackburn Seniors)

 Girls doubles

winners- Hayley Wilson & Lily Edmundson (Blackburn Seniors)

 Mixed doubles

Winners- Cameron Holt & Lily Edmundson

Runners up- Greg Ho & Jane Chong (Stonyhurst)

 

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everybody for entering!

Return Of Trophies

Just a reminder to all clubs which have trophies from last season.

The trophies should be returned to Jean no later than 22 Feb as she is away the week after.

All trophies should be returned as per rule 4E(iv).

 

John Culshaw Tournament

The Blackburn & District Badminton Association will once again be organising the annual charity badminton tournament in honor of the former mayor of Accrington, John Culshaw.

This event will take place on Saturday 26th April 2014 and commence at 10.00am. It is open to any player within the area, whether registered with a badminton club or not.

Teams can be a mix of players of all standards and clubs, however entrants are expected to be know the rules of the game as this is a competitive event.

This event will be held at Hyndburn Leisure Centre, Henry Street, Church, Accrington, BB5 4EP thanks to the generosity of the Hyndburn Borough Council, who have made these facilities available.

The tournament which is handicapped is made up of teams of four players (two ladies, two men) who play a total of 8 games in each match (two mixed and two levels games each using rally point scoring). Teams will play several of these matches throughout the day depending on the number of teams in each pool.

Play will commence from 10am on the day and it is hoped that the finals of the event will be completed by 5pm. This is an enjoyable day where games will be played on a pools basis, meaning you will play lots of games against players of different standards.

When applying for entry to the tournament, teams should give themselves a ‘team name’ and advise the names of players, together with a contact telephone number. An entry fee of £20 (£5 per player) will be collected on the day of the tournament. If you enter and later can’t participate you will still be liable for full payment.

To enter please send the following details to claire.edmundson@hotmail.co.uk, quoting Your Team Name, Players Names, League the players are registered with (if applicable), Clubs and the league division (if applicable), Contact phone number

 

2nd Blackburn Town Team

Blackburn 2nd Town Team have played all their games for this season and whilst they didn’t win any matches, it was good to see junior players involved and different players representing the league. Thank you to those who played-

Paul Ainscoe- College

Cameron Holt- Telecom

David Holt- Telecom

Michael Boothman- Roefield

Matt Cole- Roefield

Sameer Kadiri- Blackburn Harpoons

Ahmed Awan- Blackburn Harpoons

Ahmed Ali- Blackburn Harpoons

Lily Edmundson- Blackburn Seniors

Hayley Wilson- Blackburn Seniors

Helen Shanks- Blackburn Seniors

Brenna McPartlan- Blackburn Harpoons

Katie Dudgeon- Blackburn Harpoons

Helen McPartlan- Blackburn Harpoons

 

Blackburn Times Cup

This year we are holding one cup competition for the league, 18 teams have entered this year.

The competition is a knockout and each cup week the teams will be handicapped accordingly.

All teams have a bye in the first round except Clithereo B who play Independents B and Clitheroe A who play St Philips, both matches to be played on 12 Dec 2013.

As decided at the AGM, each home team captain will receive a sealed envelope with the handicap inside, this is to be opened at the end of the match and the handicap added accordingly. If both teams have the same number of aces then the away team is deemed the winner.

All team secretaries will receive the draw for each week of the competition.

 

Handicapped A & B Tournaments

 Handicapped A & B Tournaments

 Date: Saturday 23rd November 2013

Venue: Accrington Academy

Time: 10-4pm

The Handicap A & B Tournaments are open to any player registered with the Blackburn Badminton League.

The tournaments will be run on the same day and as such players can only play in either the Handicap A or the Handicap B tournament, not both. Players in division 1 can only enter the A tournament.

Players in divisions 2 and 3 are able to enter either the A or B tournament. In each tournament, the following events will be available:

• Ladies Singles
• Men’s Singles
• Ladies Doubles
• Men’s Doubles
• Mixed Doubles

Fees are £5 per player, per event. To enter the competition, please complete the slip below and post/ email to me using the details below.

Please complete your entry form as soon as possible, but no later than 12th November. If you are emailing/ texting me, please state your name, and your partners name if relevant, and the event(s)/ tournament you are entering.

Fees must be paid in advance unless prior agreement is arranged with me. Please make cheques payable to ‘Blackburn and District Badminton Association’.

Please note, if you book entry to the tournament and do not attend you are still liable to pay the entry fees.

In the event of there not being sufficient number of entries to run 2 tournaments, the tournaments will merge into 1- the Handicap A event.

Entries via the usual methods, details below.

Claire Edmundson

Tournament Secretary

claire.edmundson@hotmail.co.uk

07957138914

Address: 18 Spring Meadows, Clayton Le Moors, Accrington BB5 5XA