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News
8 January 2013
SPORT
Rugby
Abingdon fielded 23 rugby teams last
season; they played a total of 216 matches,
won 121 (60%), lost 88 and drew 7, an
average of 24 points a match as opposed
to 17 a match for their opponents – a huge
achievement all round. At half term, the
1st XV had the honour of being invited to
attend the St Joseph’s National Festival – the
premier national schoolboy rugby festival –
where they acquitted themselves very well.
A total of six Abingdon U16 players were
selected to represent their counties with
three of them captaining their teams in
different matches – Theo Brophy Clews the
Berkshire U16s, and Jamie Pearson and
Michael Dewar the Oxfordshire U16s. Later
in the term, six U18 players were selected to
take part in South West Trials. n
Fencing
Abingdon’s fencers demonstrated their
dominance last term: they sent nine players
to the Bucks, Berks and Oxon Competition
on 14 October and came away with nine
medals. They swept the board at both
Winchester and Bradfield; at Harrow
they won three out of the four matches,
thus ending Harrow’s four-year unbeaten
record; and at the Southern Region Team
Championships, the U16s won gold in the
Boys’ Epee. n
Boat Club
The senior rowing squad went to Philadelphia over the Michaelmas half term to
compete at the Head of the Schulykill Regatta. The squad were divided into a
lightweight and a heavyweight eight, which is how they entered the regatta. From a
field of 39, the two Abingdon crews came 3rd and 6th – a very impressive result. n