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Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
House Football Champions 2014 - The Wait Is Over...
Congratulations to Mertens Seniors for taking out the House Football Championship for 2014. They lived up to their billing as bookies favourites dominating all comers in typically ruthless fashion. Mertens disposed of Crosse 2 - 1, Rhodes 2 - 0 and Hilton 2 - 0 to take out honours for the first time in over 5 years. After years of coming close they finally have one in the bag! Well done lads :)
Senior Champions...
Senior Champions...
Bimbo, Conor, Summers, Will, Ollie, Jonah, Jimmy, Oscar, Chris, Dom, Alessandro, Oscar, Ollie, Jack, Benny, Max, Alfredo |
The Junior footballers didn't fare so well losing to Crosse 1 - 0 and Hilton 5 - 0 and drawing against Rhodes 0 - 0. There will be better days ahead for these lads!!
The Juniors...
Harry, Iain, George, Fred, Ed, Huzzie, Ethan, Ivan, Harry, Charlie, Raph, Dennis, Marco, Tireni, Rocco, Ollie T |
Monday, 17 November 2014
Mertens Fencers...
Another great day for Ardingly's fencers! Last week, our fencers did the business and
convincingly beat Eastbourne College, a club with generally less experienced
fencers than ourselves. But this week,
our fencers took on the mighty Charterhouse, a bastion of fencing and a regular
on the top fencing circuit. Now, they
had problems all week sorting out what players and teams they would send but in
any case their reduced teams arrived and they contained 2 very good occasional
internationals and others.
Senior Foil (Josh Hardy, Toby Brann & Sam Sheridan)
lost 34:45 Junior Foil 'A' (Harry Ward, Alec Watson & Matt Geddes) won
45:20 Junior Foil 'B' (Lucas Williamson, Cameron Elder & Christopher Jung)
won 45:31 Epee (Bryan Chiu, Ollie Clarke-McCullagh & Colin Cook) won 45:37
The senior foil team ably led as always by Josh Hardy was
supplemented this week by Sam Sheridan again and by Toby Brann for his first
outing for the seniors. The team
remained close to their opponents' score till the very end. Toby Brann tried hard thoughout and Sam
Sheridan fenced especially well (-3) but it was Josh Hardy (+5) who once again
took the plaudits. He fenced calmly,
with precision and excellent technique but sadly the team were never quite able
to haul back the points. Still they did
succeed in unnerving their much more experienced opponents.
In the first of the Junior matches, the 'B' team well led
by the very experienced Lucas Williamson, featured Christopher Jung in his
first outing for Ardingly. He fenced
really well ending on (+6) Cameron Elder
showed tremendous promise although was a little unlucky (blame the ref, i.e.
me) on -2. But Lucas was ever reliable
and devastating, ending his 3 bouts on +10.
In the second of the junior matches, the battle-hardened veterans of the
'A's were very well led by Harry Ward (+7) and excellently supported by Alec
Watson (+9) and Matt Geddes (+9). This
was a one-sided contest with our fencers in control of the match from the very
beginning through to the very end. But
it did provide them with much-needed match practice.
But the real drama and greatest test (and pleasure) was still
to come.....the epee match. Our eclectic
epeeists, took on Charterhouse's and this was a revenge match since we lost by
one point to them last year. Only Ollie
Clarke-McCullagh (+7) remained from that team and he had a point to prove. While Ardingly took the lead and soon
extended it to 20:10, a strong fight back meant that just over half-way through
we led 28:25. But a cool Colin Cook (-1)
won the 7th round (6:1) and this was followed by Oli picking his opponents off
to win the 8th round (5:2) Captain Bryan
Chiu (+5) demonstrated excellent composure and technique (as he had done so all day) to bring home the
bacon and secure our 3rd win of the day.
Not even the excellent match tea could exceed the pleasure of our
epeeists victory today.
Results against Charterhouse - 3 wins out of 4 matches
:):):)
And so on to next week, the Inter-Prep School competition
round 2. Our ACPS will be welcoming
Brambletye for the first time as well as fencers from other schools including
Pennthorpe, Farlington and possibly Cumnor House. Lots of help from seniors will be needed to
help the younger ones get kitted out, marshal them on and off the piste as well
as referee the matches. So please do
come along to support, check out the quality of the match tea (yes, it really
is very good) and enjoy some really good fencing.
Saturday, 15 November 2014
This Weekend in Mertens.....15th/16th Nov
Unfortunately there are no fixtures for the 14BCD and 15BCD but away fixtures for all others against Charterhouse but there is STEAK AND CHIPS to look forward to tonight artfully created by none other than the BBQ King himself, Boyan Tsvetkov!!
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Inter House Music 2014
Congratulations to all the Mertens boys who performed in the House Music Competition. There was an amazing array of talent on display from all Houses so for us to be competitive was outstanding. Mertens musicians were ably led by Anthony Yiu and James Ritchie who performed solos (see photo below) on the piano and the cello respectively, receiving rave reviews by the adjudicator who singled out their commitment and professionalism. Raph Adomakoh stepped out of his comfort zone once again to sing vocals for the Mertens Jazz Ensemble alongside Anthony and James, continuing his great form from last year's competition. The highlight for the House was undoubtedly 'The Mertones' involving Edmund Legrave, Wilson Mak, Jacky Lai, Aidan Murphy, Ethan Pizano, Tom Tweedie-Smith, Raph Adomakoh, James Ritchie, Iain Brown, Ludwig Habsburg, Lennart Grimm, Konsti Krome, Patrick O'Brien, Jordan Bishop, Maxwell Pierce, Giorgio Oriani, Anton Alkevich with accompaniment from Mr Tester on the piano and Anson Lee on the cello. The evening was then capped off in style with a classy solo performance by cellist James Ritchie.
Overall, it was a brilliant program put together by Anthony Yiu and James Ritchie and they should be very proud of their efforts!! We certainly are! Well done Mertens!
Overall, it was a brilliant program put together by Anthony Yiu and James Ritchie and they should be very proud of their efforts!! We certainly are! Well done Mertens!
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