BEXHILL ROWING CLUB  

2011 CARA LEAGUE Winners 848 points 

 Grand Aggregate Winners  62 points 

Individual Championships :  Mens Senior Fours, Ladies Senior Fours, Mens Senior Pairs, Ladies Senior Pairs, Mens Junior Senior Fours, Mens Senior Sculls, Mens Junior Sculls.

     Updated 10 May 2012 

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Bexhill Rowers Resume Winning Ways at Wet Worthing

Bexhill Rowing Club bought some cheer to a wet and windy weekend at Worthing with a wonderful 9 wins on Saturday followed by eight more on the Sunday to show that they mean to continue their dominance at the top of the CARA League. Conditions were not the most favourable for this start to the coastal rowing season with forecasters quoting just a 2 degree C feel like factor! Saturdays early start of 8.30 am did nothing to slow down Bexhill's competitive edge and the regatta started with the mixed J14 Quad of Tom and Max Golledge , Georgina Pepper (in her first ever race), and Martyn Matt taking a fabulous 2nd place from an event that featured other boats with all male crews! race 2 saw the club's first win as Kieran Cahill took 1st ahead of team mates Matt Hellier (3rd), Ashley Cahill (4th), and Phil McCorry (6th). In race 3 the Vet

40+ saw a 2nd for Bexhill A Steve Hopkins, Greg Payne, Paul Heskett and

Dave Jones whilst Bexhill B of Bob Balchin, Andy Bickers, Chris Doswell and Graham Dawes took 3 points in 4th place. Race 4 saw the pair of Katie Skelton and Annabele Laity take an impressive 2nd and 5 points. It surely will not be long before these two take there first win in this category. Race 5 saw the Junior 4 of Jack Page, Alex Pepper, Josh Howe and Tony Page add a further 3 points with a fouth from 8 other boats. Bexhill's 2nd win of the day was taken in the Ladies Novice Four with K Skelton , A Laity, Megan Rudd and Anne Crawley-Belgique comfortably taking all 6 points. The winning streak continued in race 7, a superb 1 -2 for Bexhill as Greg Anderson romped away to take pole from A Pepper in 2nd. Undoubtedly the most exciting race of the day had the prestigeous men's senior 4's of Bexhill and Deal neck and neck from start to the turns, with just a canvas seperating the two boats with 50 metres to go Bexhill's A crew of Doug Holdaway, Matt Hellier, Joe Guppy and K Cahill, shifted their rate up and pulled ahead to take a fabulous first. the B crew of A Bickers, Nick McCorry, Dan Renner and Greg Anderson took the 3rd spot. Race 9 the Mens Junior pairs had 2 new crews involved for Bexhill. J. Page and A Pepper took great pride in their 3rd place whilst Tony Page and M.Cowling finished in 8th. Win number 4 came in the Vet 50+ with Bexhill A S Hopkins, G Payne, PHeskett and D Jones taking a first and B. Balchin, G Dawes, M Cowling and T.Page coming in 3rd. Race 11 saw the Ladies Junior 4 of K Skelton , A Laity, M Rudd and Louise Moyse take 3rd whilst the B crew of Mahala Moore Masie Hill, Helena Sigusdottir and Charlotte Jones get the final point available with a great row, passing Eastbourne just before the finish line taking a deserved 6th. Win 5 saw the Ladies Senior Pair of Sophia Green and Claire Hosie resume where they left off at the top last season comfortably taking 1st place with club mates Rachel Garland and Eloise Hunt taking 5th. Rowing for the first time together race 14 saw the Novice 4 of J Page, M Cowling, M Golledge and Martyn Matt gaining 3 points for 4th in their first race together. The last 3 events of the day were the most prolific for Bexhill's point tally with 3 more wins and a plethora of places. In the men's Junior sculls there was a 1st for Doug Holdaway, a 3rd for Joe Guppy , 4th Phil McCorry and 5th Dan Renner. Next up the ladies senior 4 showing they are the same force as last season, C Hosie, S Green, R Garland and E Hunt winning the race in some style some 20 lengths in front of their nearest rivals.The final race of the day the men's senior Pairs had M Hellier and A Cahill take 1st with club mates Renner and Anderson in 5th and Guppy and Holdaway in 6th.

The Sunday regatta at Worthing Town was almost like groundhog day with many crews competing against the same opposition on the same water.

Bexhill came out of the day with 7 wins. Ashley Cahill started the day by almost copying his brother the day before by coming second in the Mens senior sculls M Hellier and P McCorry taking points behind him.

Greg Anderson sealed his Junior status by winning the men's novice sculls with A Pepper taking 2nd. The Mens senior 4 of Holdaway, Hellier, Guppy and K Cahill improved their race to take 1st in greater style and distance than the day before over Deal in 2nd again. The vet

50+ was taken by Hopkins,Payne,Heskett and Jones for the 2nd time in 2

days. Green and Povey upheld their dominance in the Senior ladies pair category and easily took their 2nd win at Worthing as they also did this time accompanied by Hunt and Garland taking 1st in the ladies senior 4.

Finally Doug Holdaway also took his 2nd win of the weekend in men's junior sculls with colleagues Guppy, Renner, P McCorry, N McCorry all collecting points. Other notable points takers were the Vet 50+ of G Dawes, Paul Dawes, Doswell and Bickers gaining 4th in Vets 40+. The Hunt twins of Elouise and Emma J Taking 5th in ladies senior pairs. In their

first race together in JS fours Doswell, Renner, Howe and Warren

Mortimer-=Harvey took a respectable 4th, whilst the Novice 4 of J page, M Cowling, M Golledge and Remuna Picard also came in 4th.

Both days saw Bexhill take the Grand aggregate trophy for most points and after 2 regattas the club are top of the CARA league table with Worthing in 2nd. The club would like to thank Bexhill College for the use of their van in transporting the many young rowers to the events that without transport of their own they may have not been able to travel to. Next regatta is at Shoreham weather permitting on the 26th May. Supporters are very welcome.

ADUR HEAD Report and Results March 11th 2012

Group A (against Tide 3.5k approx )

Mens Sen 4 Joe Guppy , Mark Mitchell , Keiran Cahill and Doug Holdaway  Cox Max             1st  14min.46 secs 1/26
Vet 50+  Paul Heskett, Steve Hopkins, Glen Pain, Dave Jones coxed by Laura Quinn           1st   16.32                 6/26

Lsen 4+ Claire Hosie, Rachel Garland, Eloise Hunt, Sophia Green coxed by Alex  Pepper  1st   16.44                 8/26

JLadies 4+ Katie Skelton, Annable Laity, Megan Rudd,  Helena Sigfusdottir                             5th  19.54                 26/26
 

Group B (with Tide 3.5k approx)

River 1x Mark Mitchell                                                                                                                             2nd  12.51               2/39
Sen 2- K Cahill  and Doug Holdaway                                                                                                 1st   13.31               3/39 
Sen 1 Asley Cahill                                                                                                                                  1st    13.35               4/39

Jun 1x Dan Renner                                                                                                                                1st    13.51              6/39 

Jun1x Phil McCorry                                                                                                                                 2nd  14.15              9/39

Nov Mens4+ Jack Page, Dave Williams, Tony Page, Remuna Picard, cox Pete Anderson    3rd   14.15             10/39 

Jun 1x Alex Pepper                                                                                                                                 3rd   14.42             13/39

Lsen2- Claire Hosie &  Sophia Green                                                                                               1st   15.08              22/39

L Nov 4+ Katie Skelton, Annable Laity, Megan Rudd,  Patsy                                                        2nd  15.14              23/39 

Mixed J14 quad4x  Atalie Scriver, Max Gooledge, Martyn Matt, Laura Quinn                               1st   15.16             25/39 

Sen 1x Matt Mitchell                                                                                                                                5th   15.57             34/39
L Nov 4+ Mahala Moore,  Masie Hill, Charlotte Jones and Helena's Sigfusdottir                     3rd   18.10             35/39    

Marlow Head Results 29th Jan 2012

BEXHILL ROWERS CONQUER OLYMPIC COURSE

The Bexhill Rowing Club Competitors started the new year on a familiar winning streak last Sunday at the  Thames Valley Trial Head on the Olympic course at Dorney Lake with 4 wins and a plethora of places.  The first and most impressive win saw the Senior 4 of  Kieran Cahill, Mark  Mitchell, Joe Guppy and Doug Holdaway coxed by  Max Goolidege finish in a time of 6 mins 50 seconds winning their group and taking 15^th place overall out of a huge entrance on the day of  522 boats. The next victory was taken by Mark Mitchell doing what he does naturally in a scull in a time of 7.28. The 3^rd win was taken by Phill McCorry in the Coastal Junior Scull category taking 1^st from his colleague Greg Anderson in 2^nd with times of  8.09 and 8.23 respectively. The 4^th win saw the Vets of Paul Heskett, Steve Hopkins, Glen Pain, Dave Jones coxed by Laura Quinn take their  first triumph together since they teamed up just a couple of months ago their time was 7.43.  The Ladies  4 of Claire Hosie, Rachel Garland, Eloise Hunt, Sophia Green coxed by Alex  Pepper narrowly missed out on a first by one second to take 2^nd place with a time of 7.40.  In the IM3.4x coxless quad category  Nick and Phil McCorry, Andy Bicks, and Greg Anderson took a respectable 3^rd place with a time of  7.05. Finally the  Mixed Junior 14 held their heads high finishing 8^th the crew of Laura Quinn, Martyn Matt, Max Goolidege & Atalie Scriever coxed by Kieran Cahill . They were the only mixed junior 14 and so were racing in the mens under 14 against some of the London private schools. All in all Bexhill Rowing Club did the town proud amongst the elite names of British clubs including Maidstone Invicta, Marlow, Cardiff City and Eton.

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