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Epeeists, India Martin, Ailsa Keating and British international Mary Cohen, to stage a superb victory 45 – 31 in a weapon
Cambridge has not won in many years. However despite every fencer giving their all, it was not enough and we narrowly lost
overall 119 – 115.
The close score and continuous influx of new talent means that next year’s Varsity match to be held on home soil in Cambridge,
should be an equally thrilling affair.
Other Team Highlights
25/3/06, EIS Sheffield
Result: 2nd place BUSA team event
Individual Achievements and Representative Honours
Mary Cohen – Representing Britain at both under 20 and senior level throughout this season. Has consistently been selected for
under 20 European and World Championships.
Anna Robinson – Represented Britain at senior level and at under 20 level in previous seasons.
Cambridge University Fives Club
www.cu-sparrows.org.uk
Captain: Charlie Brookes, Gonville & Caius
Secretary: Anish Bhuva, St John’s
Fives has been played on courts at Cambridge University for over 100 years.
There is only one existing court left in Cambridge, at The Perse School, by kind permission of the Headmaster. They have played
‘home’ matches at Bedford Modern School. The annual Past versus Present match has been played at Oundle School. Both
these schools are a considerable distance away from Cambridge. Oxford University, on the other hand, now enjoys the use of
two modern, glass-backed Rugby Fives courts on the Iffley Road site. It is no coincidence that the last eight of Oxford’s
comparatively rare victories, from 1993 to 2000, have occurred since the provision of these courts, to which many ex-
Cambridge players gladly contributed, five of them since the closure of Portugal Place.
The players, past and present, have already raised a considerable sum of money in memory of Jock Burnet, for forty years the
President of the Cambridge Fives Club, for the purpose of building Fives courts worthy of the University. If the standard of play
that has been achieved for seventy-five years at Cambridge is to be maintained, it is vital that the University find a site on which
at least two modern courts can be built. Plans are now afoot to develop a sports site at West Cambridge, where it is hoped to
build fives courts to replace those lost in the town centre.
Blues awarded 2005 – 06
Alan Beverly, Girton, Extraordinary Full Blue
Half Blues awarded 2005 – 06
Charlie Brooks, Gonville & Caius
Anish Bhuva, St. John’s
Simon Beal, Homerton
Mark Belassie, Gonville & Caius
Richard Lebon, Trinity
Chris Jones, Emmanuel
Jono Abecassis, St. John’s
Varsity Match
25 February 2006
St. Paul’s School, Richmond
Cambridge 219 – 215 Oxford