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CHESHIRE
CHASE BOYS COUNTY TITLE HAT-TRICK
Cheshire will
be seeking their second victory in three years when they take on
Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire and Surrey in the English Boys’
County Championships Finals at East Devon on 4-6 September.
On home ground
at Delamere Forest in 1998, Cheshire lifted the trophy in style
having also won it back in 1987. But can they make it a triumphant
treble at the splendid East Devon club at Budleigh Salterton?
Daniel Wardrop,
the Cheshire Boys champion, who earned his first England Boys cap
in the recent Home Internationals in Ireland, will captain the Cheshire
squad, which won through from the Northern Qualifier at Fairhaven.
The team will also include Scott Jackson, joint fifth in last month’s
Carris Trophy and a reserve for Ireland, and Adam Scott, the Northern
Boys Individual champion.
Nottinghamshire
and Gloucestershire reached last year’s Finals, finishing second
and third respectively. Both will be eager to do better this time
and will field players who featured at Porters Park last September.
The Nottingham
squad contains four members of their 1999 squad: Peter Wheatcroft,
Michael Nester, Sam Wright and Jamie Farnsworth. Wheatcroft, 18,
is an Under-16 international, the current Notts boys’ champion and
will captain the squad. Nester is also an Under-16 international.
Notts will be
making their sixth appearance in the finals. They were champions
in 1991, runners-up in ’93, ’95, and last year, and fourth in ’96.
Gloucestershire
will include three players from last year’s County Finals team,
Chris Allen, James Watson and David Mooney. Allen, the team captain,
and Watson, runner-up in the Southern Boys Under-17 Championship,
have both been part of the EGU’s coaching scheme.
This will be
Gloucestershire’s third final. Their only appearance before last
year was in 1986 when there were runners-up to Worcestershire.
Surrey, who
will be making their first appearance in the Finals, will be making
a late decision on their line-up but hope to include internationals
Zane Scotland, Josh Simons and James Heath. Scotland earned his
first full England cap in the match with France at Chart Hills in
May, having previously been capped at under-16 and boy levels.
Winner of the
McEvoy Trophy in April, he helped England lift the European Youths
Team Championship for the first time when they beat hosts Scotland
in the final at Kilmarnock last month. Simons earned his first cap
in the European Boys Team Championships in Holland this year and
also played for GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy at Turnberry.
Heath was reserve for Holland but his session has been hampered
by a wrist injury which may affect his inclusion for Devon.
The Finals are
contested on a round robin basis, each match consisting of three
foursomes and six singles. In the first round of matches on 4 September,
Surrey will play Cheshire and Nottinghamshire meet Gloucestershire.
Teams
Cheshire
Daniel
Wardrop (Didsbury)
Scott
Jackson (Bramall Park)
Adam Stott
(Reddish Vale)
Michael
Jones (Royal Liverpool)
Paul Waring
(Bromborough)
Daniel
Reilly (Birchwood)
James
Baker (Portal Premier)
Nottinghamshire
Peter
Wheatcroft (Worksop)
Michael
Nester (Notts)
Sam Wright
(Oakmere Park)
Jamie
Jarvis (Oakmere Park)
Jamie
Farnsworth (Coxmoor)
Christian
Smith (Coxmoor)
Philip
Stansbury (Worksop)
Gloucestershire
Chris
Allen (Lansdown)
James
Watson (Henbury)
Jamie
Warwick (Ross-on-Wye)
Trevor
Jones (Chipping Sodbury)
Elliot
Nicholls (Gloucester)
David
Mooney (Broadway)
Robert
Mitchell (Bristol and Clifton)
Surrey (from)
Zane
Scotland (Woodcote Park)
Josh Simons
(Coombe Hill)
James
Heath (Coombe Wood)
Ross McGowan
(Banstead Downs)
Farren
Keenan (Royal Mid-Surrey)
Nathan
Treacher (Shirley Park)
Chris
Ollington (Addington Palace)
Ryan Harrison
(Bramley)
William
Haddrell (Royal Mid-Surrey)
Chris
Harmston (Wentworth)
Steven
Haggart (Sunningdale)
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