OC Golf and Cricket Match Reports

Cricket 

This past week, the OC 1st XI played away vz Hitchin CC and the 2nd XI team played at home vs Ware CC. 

The 1st lost by 3 runs with Hitchin CC 194/7 and the OCs 191 all out. Some highlights from OCs are Eddie Tse (SG 2013) - 41 & 2/51; Salman Khalique (HG 1990) - 1/15; Ollie Jenne (EG 2010) - 35; Alex Thomas (WG 2010) - 32. Even with the loss, it was a great game, and the OCs are looking forward to improving in their next fixture against the Northampton Exiles. 

The 2nd XI lost by 6 wickets to Care CC with OCs 54 all out and Ware 57/4. Thier next game will be against Tewin CC. 

OC Golf 

OC GOlf had their first friendly match of the season against the Old Millhillians, which was on Saturday 7th June at New Zealand Golf Club, near Guildford. 

The weather for the day was forecast as a disaster, more rain in one day than we got in the whole of May (which was a dry one to be fair). Well, they got away with it somewhat as they managed to play through the morning without any rain but as they finished and went in to lunch the rain came down heavily.  

A very productive morning for the OCs securing a strong 4-1 lead with special mention to Gerald Wingrove (NG 1967) and Mark Walton (FG 1971) on a comprehensive 9&7 win. They were two over gross Foursomes for the 11 holes they played when the match ended. 

They tried to make a fist of it in the afternoon against the weather as it was raining and the skies did not look good. It did continue to rain, hard at times, and a few groups only managed the first 5 holes. A half was agreed for all of these matches. Two groups played until just after the turn with 1 win and 1 loss so the outcome in the afternoon was draw, meaning the OC’s prevailed overall 6½ to the OM’s 3½ points. Gerald Wingrove was also in the winning afternoon group, so wins the MVP for the day. The match Scoresheet can be seen below:

They have also had relatively busy week this week which reports will be shared next week.  

• Monday 9th June – Public Schools Putting competition at Royal Wimbledon. 

• Tuesday 10th June – The Senior Darwin competition (for over 65s) starts at Woking. They are playing Clifton in the first round.  

• Wednesday 11th June – Veterans Darwin competition (for over 75s) is on at Woking.