Robertsbridge

Sunday 27th July again at Robertsbridge Club from 3pm why not spend an afternoon of music, BBQ and summer time drinks with your children and friends. The music is by `The Wacky Band`.

Bin collection on Monday 28th July is Green bins for re-cycling and brown bin for garden waste.

Summer activities for this year at Robertsbridge Community College are –

Monday 28th July – Tottenham Hotspur Road show (one day event).

Monday 28th July – Wednesday 30th July – Summer Dance Camp

Monday 4th August – Friday 8th August – Multi Sports with Active Primary Sports (Wayne), PDFA Football Academy.

Monday 11th August – Friday 15th - August Active Primary Sports PDFA Football Academy.

Wednesday 27th August and Thursday 28th August – Music Theatre and Dance Workshops being held at Robertsbridge Youth Centre.

Year 6 Summer school is the 18th – 22nd August.

For more details of age, costs and for bookings please contact www.robertsbridge.org.uk or email [email protected] or ring 01580880360 on ext 121.

The next fundraiser for Robertsbridge Bonfire Society is a Traditional Pub Games Tournament on Friday August 8th at Robertsbridge Club. This will include darts, skittles, bagatelle, shuffleboard, toad in the hole and many more. It will be teams of 4 at £6.00 per head with cash for the first prize and many other prizes. This starts sharp at 7pm.

Sunday 10th August at the Salehurst Halt between 5pm- 8pm you can go and hear `The Violet Jive ` playing and enjoy a lovely summers evening in a lovely country setting.

We would like to send our condolences to the family and friends of Geoff Harding who died last week.

Stoolball: The Mixed played at Scorpions last Tuesday [15th] with the hosts batting first. Excellent fielding resulted in a run out in the 1st over with just 11 runs on the board and then in the 4th over Richard Apps [1-6] clean bowled Mark [15]. Another run out in the 5th over and a wicket for Melinda Mackay [1-4] aided with a catch by Keith Apps saw the hosts struggling on 46-4 and when JJ Boast[1-5] took a wicket in the next over helped with a catch from Richard it was 51-5. Tight bowling kept the hosts to singles before the 6th wicket went down to Graham Clark [1-13] as he held onto a catch from his own bowling while excellent fielding again resulted in 2 run out’s. Josh Lewis[1-8] took a catch from his bowling while Abigail Fifield [1-22] took the last wicket as the hosts finished on 101 all out. The reply was solid with 37 on the board before Melinda[5] was bowled and just 1 run later Josh[32] was caught. Abigail [4] went in the 4th over and Ian Kitson [14] was caught in the 5th over. The 6th over saw Claire Hatter [5] caught and then Penny Clark[3] was bowled in the next over but skipper Richard [18] pushed the score to 88 before he was caught. Sarah Clark [6] and Keith [20] took us past the hosts total before Sarah was caught and then a JJ [11] and Graham [0n.o.] finished our innings on 126 all out for a 25 run victory. Last Sunday[20th] the Mixed team played at Crowhurst Tournament with Scorpions our first opponents in a five over match. Ian Kitson [1-11] took a wicket with his 6th ball while Melinda Mackay[1-13] aided by a catch from Ian had our opponents reeling on 11-2 but a third wicket partnership of 55 between Jackie[27] and Pete [23n.o.] was broken when Josh Lewis[1-15] caught and bowled Jackie as they ended on 67-3. An opening partnership of 50 between Josh[40n.o.] and Sophie Turner[15] gave us the foundation for a 4 run win with Melinda [8n.o.]. Our next opponents were Brightling and batting first Josh [31] and Sophie[11] put on 48 before Josh was caught and two balls later Sophie was run out and then we lost wickets quickly with Ian [2], Melinda [5] failing to add much to the score and finally Keith Apps [1n.o.] and Claire Hatter [1n.o.] completed our innings on 60-4. Our bowling and fielding let us down as James[36] and Sarah[46] passed our total before Josh [1-12] bowled James and good fielding led to Sarah being run out in the next ball as Brightling won by 32 runs. Our last game was against Pett and when Kieth[1] was bowled on the 5th ball it did not look good but Melinda [36] and Ian [15] steadied the innings with a 44 run partnership before Sophie [2n.o.] and Josh [9n.o.] completed our innings on 71. Keith[1-10] aided by a catch from Sophie took the first wicket but a second wicket partnership of 52 between Sandra [35] and Mark [25n.o.] took the score to 59 before Mark was run out and good fielding led to another run out the next ball but Lynn[5n.o.] joined Sandra to give Pett a win by 1 run. The Mixed team are away to Hooe on Tuesday [29th] at 6.45p.m.

Sandie Madge & Sue Paine

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