Bath Festival 2008
Report & Photo Gallery
01/03-August
Bath Buccanneers Hockey Club
C/o University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY
Tour Report
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The start middle of the Summer heralds the Bath Tour and the Hornets returned for the 8th time. The change in attitude for this summer saw the Hornets continue in the same vein as the Guildford Tour with fun & beers taking the limelight as opposed to hockey & trophies! Not as hot as previous years either although the sun certainly came out for Saturday after the initial downpours but Sunday was both rainy & chilly. No matter though, as the beers flows both days!
As with last year's format, teams played in qualifying pool games on the Saturday and again on the Sunday for places in the Cup and Plate competitions. The Hornets' results were mixed on day one and rubbish on day two! So no Cup or Plate entry this year although they still managed to end up in a couple of matched up against some ultra keen sides who were yet to learn the meaning of festival hockey! The results from the weekend are below:
- Mixed Pool: vs. Bath Rangers L0-2
- Mixed Pool: vs. Chichester Crickets W1-0 (MJ)
- Mixed Pool: vs. Leo Sayer All-Dayers D0-0
- Mixed Pool: vs. Random Factor W1-0 (Scott)
- Mixed Pool: vs. Ocassional Monkeys W3-0 (Kellog x2, Ben)
- Mixed Pool: vs. Penge W1-0 (Cat)
- Mixed Pool: vs. Chameleons W5-0 (W/O)
- Mixed Pool: vs. Recent Rangers L0-3
- Mixed Pool: vs. Shaken Not Stirred L1-2 (Scott)
So not the showing of recent years in terms of results but back to the Hornets of old where fun takes the driving seat for a weekend's of touring. Sadly, Bath is also the end of the touring season for the Hornets as the Stratford Festival now takes place during the conventional hockey season when the Hornets have to return to their respective league teams.
Roll on 2009 for the 10th anniversary and the return of the Hornets to the legendary Bournemouth Festival.
The tour squad was as follows: Aidan Brock (GK), Jon Kirby, James Kirby, James Kellock, Mark Jones, Ross McArdell, Scott McArdell, Simon Riley, Ben Volpiere, Hannah Browster, Yeng Ng, Singles, Gemma Strachan, Cat Dwyer, Natalie Retallick, Sawm Withey, Melani Carosi & Baby George. <<<
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Dif | Pts |
| Hornets | 9 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
12 |
7 |
+5 |
16 |