BENTLEY CC - NEWS During 2007

30th November 2007 
Friday 30th November saw the first of the Winter Quiz Nights. Unfortunately, two teams dropping out at the last minute meant a reduced number of participants however 7 teams still took part.

Table 1 - Woodrows/Pages/ Matt Coleman
Table 2 - Johnson/Pulford/Pether
Table 3 - Pagetts
Table 4 - Larkins/Hutchings/Peberdy
Table 5 - Smith/Churchill
Table 6 - Smith/Brown/Romaine
Table 7 - Phil Coleman, Andy Pagett, Greg Larkin, Toby Bacon, Charlie Yorke

Please click here for final places and round by round score breakdown.

Unlike previous quizzes, one team (Table 3) led virtually all the way through, however by Round 10, Table 4 had taken a slight lead, with only the Marathons to come. Unfortunately for those two teams, they had no-one to match Matt Coleman's encyclopaedic (some might use the work 'anorak' here) knowledge of James Bond and with 19 marks out of a possible 22, and a good performance on the Picture Quizzes, Table 1 nicked the competition by 3 points. Well done Table 1, Worst to First since the last Quiz. Honourable mentions go to the Pagetts with a second place with only 3 members (maybe Andrew would have helped - then again........) and to Table 4 on their first appearance at a Bentley Quiz - we hope they come again. Needless to say, the youngsters won the booby prize, but as this was 'umpteen' packets of chocolate (and that is what they came for after all) perhaps they were also winners on the night. A very close competition with 5 of the 7 teams within 11 points of each other.

13 Questions were answered incorrectly by all teams

1) Paul Young, Kylie Minogue & Chris Martin sung the opening lines on the 3 Band Aid versions of 'Do They Know It's Christmas'
2) Walt Disney has the most Oscar statuettes (must admit that I am surprised no-one got this)
3) Frankie Dunn, Maggie Fitzgerald & Eddie 'Scrap Iron' Dupris were characters in 'Million Dollar Baby'
4) St Sylvester's Day is better known as New Years Eve
5) Tony Blair's band was The Ugly Rumours (his band, not his wife!)
6) The Independent is the newspaper with the emblem of an eagle clutching a newspaper
7) Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was 'Slaghoople'
8) Eastenders is in the fictional Postal District of 'E20'
9) Dum Dum airport is in Calcutta (or Kolkata as it is now known)
10) The Brooklyn Bridge spans the East River
11) Thistle Alpha was the oil rig that caught fire
12) Peter Watt was the Labour Party's General Secretary who resigned
13) No-one got Mr Noisy in the Mr Men Picture Quiz

Observations

• Vodka is not the spirit responsible for moving and influencing objects - honestly!
• Who were the 'Boomtown Cats'?
• BALPA is not the union for Lap Dancers
• Hyacinth Bouquet would not admit to a maiden name of 'Slaghoople' even if it was true
• the only city or town with an exclamation mark in its name is not 'CARDIFF !' - nice try!
• Geography seems to be another subject to be avoided (5 teams with 10 points between them, and 1 of them got 4!) - Don't worry, it won't come up next time.
• Not sure if the spelling of 'Amy Whinehouse' was intended or not
• In the Marathon virtually every team went for Number 7 as a 'Little Miss ....' The clue was in the title - 'Mr Men Marathon'

Our thanks go to

• Graham Hawes & Trevor Yorke for running the bar (and buying entry tickets)

• Cathy Smith for helping with the food
• All donations of raffle prizes
• Andrew & Philip for selling the raffle tickets and organising the draw.
• Those who stayed to clear up

Profit on the night was just over £120 including the raffle, with another £200 over the bar.

Sharon & Brian Coleman

14th September 2007
The Junior Colts held their presentation evening on Friday 14th September.
The colts section is going from strength to strength, with over 140 registered colts at U13 and below, up from 88 in 2004. Of the 80 odd players that had played league games for the club in 2007, over 60 had come through from the colts (most of the rest were dads who still fancy their chances).

In 2007, the club had run 7 colts teams, at Under 9, Under 11, Under 13A, Under 13B and U13 Girls, Under 15 and Under 16.

Certificates were awarded to every colt that had represented the club in 2007. In addition, each section had its own awards - winners were as follows

Junior Group
Most Improved Players - Cameron Ball & Rhianna Griffin
Young Colts of The Year - Tobie Duncan & Gabrielle Larkin

Under 11
Most Promising Newcomers - Mitchell Hill, Jack Potticary & Ashley Parmenter
Fielding Award - Tim Pretorius
Batting Award - David Hickey
Bowling Award - Sean Whelan
Jack Petchy Awards - Toby Bacon & Jack Potticary
Most Improved Player - Gregory Larkin
Player of The Year - Charlie Yorke

Bentley Girls
Most Improved Player - Katherine Whelan
Most Promising Newcomer - Laura Woodhatch
Fielding Award - Kyrie Allen
Bowling Award - Hannah Courtnell
Batting Award - Rebecca Reid

Under 13B Awards
Bowling Award - Chris Botwright
Batting Award - Jenny Naven
Batting Award - Luke Syms
Most Improved Player - William Monk
Most Improved Player - Ben Williams
Player of the Year - Sarah Cozens

Under 13 Awards
Captains Award - Philip Coleman
Wicket Keepers Award - Jake Kavanagh
Team Player Award - Robert Hyams, George Bateson, Hannah Courtnell & Stephen Naven
Jack Petchy Awards - Sam Cross & Luke Jewers
Best Newcomer - Daniel Jessop
Bowling Performance - Luke Jewers, Hannah Courtnell & Andrew Pagett
Batting Performance - Rebecca Reid, Cian Holland & Jake Kavanagh
Fielder of the Season - Philip Coleman
Bowler of the Season - Andrew Pagett
Batsman of the Season - Philip Coleman
Most Improved Player - Luke Jewers & Sam Cross
Player of the Year - Andrew Pagett & Philip Coleman

Entertainment was again provided by Kingdom Leisure in the form of a large Bouncy Castle, Gladiator Pods & what appeared to be a 'Wall of Death', which was all funded by the Club Committee. Thanks to everyone who had helped at matches in umpiring, scoring & generally getting the ground ready. Thanks also to those who had served on the bar throughout one of the club's busiest ever summers, and finally to those who had worked the BBQ, some couples on 3 or 4 occasions.

Brian Coleman

1st August 2007
Bentley U13's are League Champions

After a resounding victory at Hutton on Tuesday, Bentley U13's secured the Central Essex League A title for the sixth time in the last eight year.  The success of the side has been built on a mature batting approach that asks all members of the side to contribute to the innings and on tight, straight bowling that offers the variety of both pace and spin.  Superbly led by Captain Philip Coleman the team has beaten a number of very strong sides in the Central District this season.  The team has also reached the semi-final of the District Cup (match to be played on 24th August at Chelmer Park, 5.30pm), and narrowly lost the Essex County Championship semi-final in June.  A superb achievement!  With a record of 15 wins in 17 games the squad look forward to the remaining games this season. They now have a well deserved break until 19th August.

6th June 2007
T-Rippon League XI vs Hertfordshire Premier Cricket League (Readers Sovereign Trophy)

The T-Rippon Mid Essex League XI are playing against the Hertfordshire Premier Cricket League representative XI on Wednesday 20th June at the Bentley Cricket Club ground, Coxtie Green Road, Brentwood, CM14 5PN.

 

The game is due to start at 1pm, weather permitting, and all visitors are welcome.  The team representing our

T-Rippon league is:

 

 

We look forward to seeing you all here.

 

16th April 2007
Nat West Cricket Force - SUNDAY 15th APRIL 12.00 - 16.00

The 'Get the Club Ready Day' went ahead as planned and was a great success. 

 

The Bentley CC committee would like to thank all those that attended and took part in the day.  We would also like to give thanks to Travis Perkins who supplied various paint and the wood to re-new the sightscreens.

 

The work carried out during the day showed how much can be accomplished with a bit of team work.

 

Many thanks for all your hard work,

 

M.P. Larrett

Chairman

 

10th April 2007
Dear Club Member,

Shirt Sponsorship 2007

I am delighted to inform you that the club has signed a 2 year shirt sponsorship deal with The Raffle Club. Com worth £3000. New club shirts for 2007, carrying the club logo and sponsorship logo are available from TED FENTON SPORTS in Brentwood High Street from 1st April 07. The club committee strongly encourage you as a playing member to purchase a new cricket shirt for 2007. It is hoped that all league sides will be kitted in the new shirt, as soon as it is practical. This sponsorship deal will be used to invest in brand new nets and surfaces. This will support the infrastructure of the club, in its endeavors to sustain a progression of outstanding youth cricketers into our league sides. I urge you to support this by purchasing a shirt from Ted Fenton's. All other crested kit is also available from Ted Fenton's.

 

Nat West Cricket Force

SUNDAY 15th APRIL 12.00 - 16.00

Bentley has teamed up with Nat West and Travis Perkins to undertake a 'Get the Club Ready Day'

 

We need to:

• Paint the Clubhouse

• Paint the Toilets

• Repair and Paint Sightscreens

• Prepare Outfield

• Weed the artificial wickets

• Clean chairs and benches

 

Staff from Nat West will be joining us, along with colt families -WE NEED YOU! 

A free BBQ will be available and the Bar will be open! Bring a paint brush / multi purpose cleaner. 

Support your club! 

(Please note - members are also welcome to join in the task of preparation on Easter Saturday/Sunday if they can't make the special event.)

 

Fantasy Cricket League

This season we are starting up our own Fantasy Cricket League. This is something that we did many years ago and hopefully this time it will be as big a success as it was in the past. The competition is open to members, friends,

family, you name them they can have a team. The more entries we have the greater the prizes will be.

 

The provisional prize levels for the Fantasy Cricket League are as follows:

 

1st Prize = £75

2nd Prize = £45

3rd Prize = £25

Monthly Prize for Team of the Month = £10 per month

Weekly Prize for Team of the Week = £5 per week

 

As I am sure you are all aware the idea is that you select 11 Bentley C.C. players, following the rules outlined, and give your team a name. Your players will score points, well hopefully they do but it all depends on whom you pick!

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is enter. The entry fee is only £10 per team, although anyone under the age of 15 has the choice of a £10 or £5 team. Any £5 team entries will only be entitled to half of any prize won.  For more details see www.bentleycc.co.uk

 

Thank you for your continued membership of Bentley CC. I hope you enjoy our season tremendously.

 

Best wishes

 

M.P. Larrett

(Chairman on behalf of your committee)

 

9th March 2007 
The final quiz night of the winter took place on Friday 9^th March with six teams taking part.

Table 1 – Woodrows/Pages/Matt Coleman
Table 2 – Cozens/Jacobs/Stimpsons/Whiteleys
Table 3 – Browns/Smiths/Churchills
Table 4 – Pagetts/ Phil Coleman/Charlie Yorke
Table 5 – Goslings & Co
Table 6 – Johnson/Pulford/Windley

Please click here for final places and round by round score breakdown.

Well, scoring was nip and tuck all the way through, with the lead changing hands on a number of occasions. At the end of Round 10, 9 points separated 4 teams, with just the two Marathon scores to be added in. A poor performance on Marathon 1 by Table 6 was compensated for by them being the highest scorers in Marathon 2, leading to a tie-break for the third time in four quizzes (I can add up, honest!), this time between Tables 3 and 6. The tie-break question was ‘How many runs did Monty Panesar score in the 2006/2007 Ashes tests?’ Table 3 went for 12, with Table 6 going for 20. With the actual answer being 35, Table 6 sneaked home. Well done!

With 2 first places and a runners up spot, the Smiths, Browns, Churchill etc can lay claim to the title of Bentley Quiz Champions 2006/07 (no prizes, just a sense of smugness). With 3 last places, lets just say that the Woodrows/Pages can’t! (I bet they miss the U16s!)

8 questions were answered incorrectly by all teams.

1. Bellrive Oval is in HOBART
2. CRASH won Best Film Oscar in 2006.
3. A male bear is a BOAR.
4. THE GENTLE TOUCH was the first TV cop show to feature a female police officer in the leading role.
5. MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR was the full name and rank of the commander of the 256^th Squadron in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22’.
6. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA was the only film to win Best Picture Oscar not to feature a female with a speaking part.
7. LASSIE wore the same coat in 5 films in the 1940’s.
8. Brontophobia is the fear of THUNDER.

Now for the observations:

• Pluto is not the alternative name for the Dog Star.

• Sport doesn’t seem to be our strong subject – only 39 points gained out of a possible 60.

• A sport with 4 letters that starts with a ‘Tee’ – yes, its ‘GOLF’, Gozz

• Cincinnati is in the USA and therefore is nowhere near the River Nile!

• We seem to have the same memory block with women police officers that we do with women cricketers.

• Only one team knew that PC McGarry’s beat was on Camberwick Green – not sure I’d own up to knowing that – most of the other teams went for Trumpton.

• Only 31 points out of a possible 60 on Literature – perhaps we should stay in more!

• Contrary to what you were lead to believe on the night, Sean Bean really isn’t that gorgeous.

• Not sure how ‘Abbey Road’ has a ‘weapons’ connection (‘Taxman’ + ‘Eleanor Rigby’ = ‘REVOLVER’)

• I’d like to know how the French word for ‘Pomegranate’ (which is actually ‘grenade’) leads to ‘Potato Gun’.

• The less said about the TV Years Marathon (41 points out of 120) the better.

Now the ‘thank yous’

• Trevor Yorke & Graham Hawes for running the bar.

• Cathy Smith for helping with the food.

• All donations of raffle prizes.

• Andrew & Philip for selling the raffle tickets (again) and Andrew for MC duties on the raffle (yet again).

• Those who stayed behind to help clear up.

Our thanks also go to everyone who has supported the quizzes over the winter. Including the take from the raffle, Friday night’s quiz made a profit of £185, with over £200 taken over the bar. The club has therefore profited to the tune of about £1,000 from the 3 winter quizzes. Now that cricket will be getting in the way, ‘Quiz Nights’ go into hibernation for the next 6 months. See you next time.

Sharon & Brian Coleman

31st January 2007
This season we are starting up our own Fantasy Cricket League.  This is something that we did many years ago and hopefully this time it will be as big a success as it was in the past.  The competition is open to members, friends, family, you name them they can have a team.  The more entries we have the greater the prizes will be.

The provisional prize levels for the Fantasy Cricket League are as follows:

• 1^st Prize  =  £75

• 2^nd Prize  =  £45
• 3^rd Prize  =  £25
• Monthly Prize for Team of the Month  =  £10 per month
• Weekly Prize for Team of the Week = £5 per week

As I am sure you are all aware the idea is that you select 11 Bentley C.C. players, following the rules outlined, and give your team a name.  Your players will score points, well hopefully they do but it all depends on whom you pick! 

There are different ways for players to score points and the transferring of players later in the season is also allowed.  The competition home page has all the rules; entry forms, player lists, and will in good time show all the league tables and stats.

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is enter.  The entry fee is only £10 per team, although anyone under the age of 15 has the choice of a £10 or £5 team.  Any £5 team entries will only be entitled to half of any prize won.

I look forward to receiving your entries and good luck for the season.

Cheers, 

Mark

26th January 2007 

The first quiz of 2007 took place on Friday 26th January, replacing the one cancelled just before Christmas. Numbers were slightly down on last time however a total of 39 paying customers was a highly creditable effort and we thank you for this. Most of our regulars were present and it was nice to welcome the Gordons to their first Bentley Quiz.  There was also the added bonus of having one team split into two and ending in a private 'Girls against Boys' (or should that be 'WaGs vs Lags' - suggestions on a post card for the meaning of 'Lags' please) battle.

Table 1 - Geggi
Table 2 - Woodrows
Table 3 - WaGs (The Misses Smith, Romaine, Churchill, Brown etc)
Table 4 - Lags (The Misters Smith. Romaine, Churchill, Brown etc)
Table 5 - Johnsons, Windley, Pulford & friends
Table 6 - Pagetts & Coleman
Table 7 - Gordons

 

Please click here for final places and round by round score breakdown.

As usual the overall result came down to careful playing of the two available jokers, together with picking up as many points as possible from the two marathon rounds. In checking through the scores, Teams 3 & 4 were dead level at the end of the ten rounds, with Team 3 ending up narrow victors, courtesy of their 3 extra points picked up on the 'Cryptic Pop Groups' Marathon. Well done ladies, and gentlemen, shall we just say that it could be a long summer!

Woodrows - hope you enjoyed the sweets.

Just out of interest, if the Quiz had been done on an 'average points per team member' basis, the Gordons would have won by 3 points from the Pagetts!

Looking back at the Quiz the day after, some answers make interesting reading.

10 Questions were answered incorrectly by all teams:

• Clare Connor was the England captain who took a test hat-trick

• Sodium Hydroxide is better known as Caustic Soda
• The first made man object to move faster than the speed of sound was the Whip
• Horipitulation is better known as 'Goose pimples'
• Emmerdale Farm became Emmerdale in 1989 - we gave you a choice of three years and this was the only one not chosen!
• Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated movie to win Best Picture Oscar
• Bart Simpson's middle name is JoJo - Shame on all you so-called Simpson fans
• Claire Taylor made the highest 1 Day International individual score at Lords in 2006
• Mark Ealham won the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of 2006
• and in the Marathons Aerosmith was the answer to 'The Legend of the Chocolate Bar' - ('Aeros Myth')

Now for the observations:

• In the 'Money Matters' round, according to one team, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was the first video played on MTV Europe - what the **** has 'Bohemian Rhapsody' got to do with money????

• We do seem to struggle with the names of woman cricketers, don't we
• Even when we give you the answer, (i.e. John Malkovich played John Malkovich in 'Being John Malkovich'), three teams thought they knew better.
• Apparently the texting abbreviation MYOB means - 'Meet You Out Back' - tell us more, please
• The North Pole is not in the Pacific - wouldn't need Global Warming to melt the Ice Cap, would it.
• Dundee (in Scotland) is not on the River Liffe (in Ireland)
• If you think Mount Sinai is in America and Innsbruck is in Sweden, in hindsight it was probably not a good idea to play the double joker on the Geography round
• No-one played a joker on the Cricket round - probably just as well, as out of a possible 70 correct answers, we got 24! (yes, 24, from a cricket club!) - the lowest scoring round of all.

Now the thank yous:

• To Graham Hawes and Trevor Yorke for running the bar in the absence of the regular Bar Steward - they also each bought an entry ticket even though they didn't take part (officially anyway)

• To everyone who donated a raffle prize, particularly John Moody (owner of 'John Richard Hair Fashions' and father of Frankie) for the voucher for a free cut and blow dry (won by Brian Pagett) and Trevor Yorke for the
  donation of a cricket bat, won by Alex Brown (Alex, Phil says thanks).  Donated prizes are particularly valuable as the money taken on the raffle is then all profit
• To Cathy Smith for helping with the food.
• Andrew & Phil for selling the raffle tickets, and for Andrew for being Draw Meister yet again
• Everyone who helped clear up afterwards

With the money from the raffle and the bar takings, profit on the evening was just shy of £300. Thank you all very much.

Sharon & Brian Coleman
 

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