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Hamilton Council Sports Performer of the Year Awards - Hamilton HQ 20/03/08
A BIG congratulations to our very own former committee member Pam Casey who was awarded the
SALSC Services to Sport 2007 Award.
This award recognises the hard work and effort that is put in behind the scenes when it comes to ensuring and maintaining the quality and availability of sports provisions for the young people of the area.
Fiona Archibald (Larkhall Academy) was a nominee in the Junior Female Section and due to her participation in the ICG tournament was also nominated for the Junior Team of the Year award.
Keith Turnbull (now assisting the LASBA Coaches) was also nominated this year for the Senior Male Award and picked up the 2nd Place Award. |
Secondary Championships - Perth - 15-16/03/08
We had a good representation in this years championships having players in almost every draw making it to the Semi-Finals
Out of all our players in the Championships our very own Fraser Michie (Dalziel High) managed to make it all the way to the finals of the Boys Under 19 Singles (beating Alan Steel (Dalziel High) on the way in the quarter-finals)
Unfortunately losing out to the Number 1 seed Kenny Young (Bellahouston Academy - Glasgow's School of Sport)
in a 3 set match
(Winning the first 21-17, losing the second 12-21 and fighting back to narrowly lose the third 19-21) Craig Morrison (Dalziel High) had to pull out of the semi-finals of the Under 16 Boys Singles
against eventual winner Michael Campbell (Firhill High)
Fiona Archibald (Larkhall Academy) and Emma Gallacher (Coltness) both made it all the way to the semi-finals of the Under 16 Girls Singles. Fiona was put out by the Number 1 seed and
eventual winner Kirsty Gilmour (Bellahouston Academy - Glasgow's School of Sport)
while Emma was put out by the Number 2 seed and eventual runner-up Kirsty McGlynn (Bellahouston Academy - Glasgow's School of Sport).
also in the same event Delaine Clarke (Kilsyth Academy) (who was put out earlier by Kirsty Gilmour) went on to win the Under 16 Girls Consolation Final against Seona Stalker (Edinburgh Region) Craig Morrison and Kirsty Hannigan (Dalziel High) made it to the semi-finals of the Under 16 Mixed Doubles
again to be put out by theNumber 1 seeds and eventual winners Gary Gibson and Gail Woodburn (Auchinleck)
Kate Abercrombie and Delaine Clarke (Kilsyth Academy) made it to the semi-finals of the Under 16 Girls Doubles after being put out by the Number 2 seeds and runners-up Shereen Spittal and Gail Woodburn (Ayrshire Region)
Eilidh Hannigan (Dalziel High) won the Under 19 Girls Consolation against Ingham McGhie (West Lothian Region)
while Laura Gormill (Carluke High) was put out by Ingham in the semi-finals of the Consolation Draw
Fraser Michie and Craig Morrison (Dalziel High) made it to the semi-finals of the Under 19 Boys Doubles but due to Craig pulling out they had to concede the match.
Fraser Michie and Eilidh Hannigan (Dalziel High) were put out in the semi-finals of the Under 19 Mixed Doubles
by eventual winners and Number 1 seeds Kenny Young and Kirsty Gilmour
(Bellahouston Academy - Glasgow's School of Sport)
All in all not a bad day at the office for the 'wee' county of Lanarkshire!!
For full results of the draws why not have a look over on the SSBU website HERE
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Primary Inter Area - 08/03/08
The Lanarkshire Team won the event convincingly, beating all their opponents and in addition beating Edinburgh in the final 4-1
See the Primary Section for final results HERE |
LASBA TEAM SELECTION - U14 and Primary | Under 14 at Gateshead - 08-09/03/08 | Primary Inter-Area at Wishaw - 08/03/08 | Mhairi Thomson
Julie Scullion
Hannah Baird
Kathryn Hughes
Samantha Coll
Kris Hawkins
Matthew Wedlicki
Ewan Skehan
Scott Jackson
Gary Jamieson | Hannah Morrison
Sophie Morrison
Kirsty Baird
Lauren Colley
John Clifford
Andrew Thomson
Alex Dunn
Thomas Darling |
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Primary Championships - Results - 17/02/08 This year saw the introduction of a Pool based qualifying section followed by an Elimination Knock-Out styled draw.
The qualifying sections took place on the Saturday 16/02/08 with the winners and runners-up of each pool being invited to return on the Sunday where the Semi- Finals and Finals took place.
Our Special Guests on the day included the Official Umpires - who once again gave their time and expertise to ensure a fair "fight" took place. With us this year from South Lanarkshire Leisure to support the efforts of all the players and organisers was Mr Millar Stoddart
(Millar is also the chairperson for the South Lanarkshire Badminton Development Group) A link to the Final Results and full results for all the Draws for 2007/08 is HERE |
SSBU Secondary Championship Qualifiers Selected - 03/02/08 The "chosen few" have been selected and announced to play for the Lanarkshire Area in this years
National Championships.
See the full list HERE |
Secondary Championships - Results - 28/01/08 This years Secondary Championships were as entertaining as ever.....with few of the games providing some surprising results.
Finals Night this year also saw several important guests arriving from Council Members representing both North and South Lanarkshire to BADMINTONscotland Representatives in attendance to support all the youngsters involved.
The matches were Umpired by no less than 5 Official Umpires
- Vince Webb, Jaz Beddi, David Craig, Elaine Bankier and Dot Tedman -
and not to forget our wonderful referee Bob Moran.
Over the course of the 3 days a new tournament software program was in operation and despite a couple of technical "quirks" the entire tournament ran as smoothly as ever!
Another addition to the Finals Night this year was the use of some high tech gadgetry - A presentation combined with a live video feed all projected onto a large screen enabling the visiting crowds to keep up-to-date with the current matches on court and the upcoming ones too. All this was then topped off with a Trophy Presentation show with winners and runners-up displayed on-screen for all to see. All of this made possible due to the hard work, time and effort of one Mr Calder of Larkhall Academy without whom none of this would have been possible.
A link to the Final Results and full results for all the Draws for 2007/08 is HERE |
Primary Quaichs - Final Results - 17/01/08 On the night there were 6 teams playing.
On the night the games were scored as one game to 21.
In the Final it was the top two teams from each pool that emerged to fight it out to a final winner..... For the Full final order visit the Results page HERE
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Secondary Championships - Draws Added - 30/12/07 This year LASBA has received 215 entries from 26 schools.
This is the largest entry into the competition since 2001.
We would like to thank ALL the players and schools getting involved in this event this year.
With this year's entries for both the Championships and the Quaichs showing an upward trend we are extremely proud to see the sport developing positively in Lanarkshire and are hopeful it will continue into the future.
(Not to mention a Special Thanks - for all the extra work you have given us!!)
A link to the Draws for 2007/08 is HERE |
SQUAD - Coaching NEWS - 30/12/07
PLEASE READ AND RESPOND
HERE |
Secondary Quaichs - Final Results - 06/11/07 On Finals night there were 4 teams playing with the result of the Senior B Quaich having already been acheived earlier.
On the night the games were scored to 21 and 'the best of three'.
There were some extremely close matches played in both the Senior and Junior Events. For the Full final order visit the Results page HERE
This time we would like to add a special thanks to the scorers of the all the Quaich Evenings and the players who fought not only hard but also fair in their matches. It made for a great event.
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Secondary Quaichs - Senior Quaich - Results- 01/11/07 The 5 teams that were at the Senior A Quaich were
Dalziel High, Hamilton College, Kilsyth Academy, Lanark Grammar and Larkhall Academy (A)
The winners of the Pool going through to play on Final's Night along side the Juniors were
Dalziel High and Kilsyth
The 2 teams playing the B Quaich Final were
St Aidan's High and Larkhall Academy (B)
St Aidan's won the Pool 5-0 however there were some close run matches especially in the Girls doubles
For the Full final order visit the Results page HERE
A great thanks goes out once again to the Teachers, Coaches and Adults that brought the pupils along to compete.
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Secondary Quaichs - Junior Results- 24/10/07 A very close and hard fought Pool of 5 was played by the schools that took part in this years Quaich.
In the end it came down to the 2nd last match to discover who would actually play on Finals Night.
The 2 teams progressing though to the final were
Dalziel High and Larkhall Academy
Lanark Grammar came VERY close to making it a 3 way final (they actually scored the most points overall on the night)
For the Full final order visit the Results page HERE
A great thanks goes out once again to the Teachers, Coaches and Adults that brought the pupils along to compete.
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* LASBA QUIZ NIGHT *POSTPONED*
Postponed due to the Scotland vs Italy football match being played the same night. Our apologies to everyone who was intending to go to the Quiz Night.
We'll keep you posted as to when the new time and date is agreed for it.
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Secondary Quaichs - Junior and Senior - Announced The LASBA Quaich's are proving more and more popular - this year we have
10 Junior Teams all playing on 24/10/07 at Bellshill Academy
then 8 Senior A and (3 of the 6) Senior B teams playing at Bellshill Academy on the 01/11/07
with
the other (3 of the 6) Senior B teams playing at St Aidan's on the 30/10/07
(notice how we kept Halloween free!!!) See HERE for the full fixture list |
***** LASBA QUIZ NIGHT *****
Fun for the whole family !! As some of you may know the Lanark Group, the group responsible for the senior end of badminton in Lanarkshire, held a fund raising Race Night recently.
Following on from the success of it LASBA have arranged for a fund raising quiz night that will be suitable for the WHOLE family. It will take place on
Saturday 17th November 2007 at 7.30pm
in
"The Railway Club" at 18 Clydesdale St, Hamilton ML3 0DA.
There is limited parking to the rear of the building (approx 16 spaces)
There is also on street parking or it is near Sainsbury's car park.
The function suite holds 160 people so there is plenty of room for you to bring along the whole family. Tickets will be on sale at £3 for adults and £2 for children and can be purchased either
by contacting Pamela on the committee Email HERE,
requesting them from Michael through the website Email HERE
Payments will be able to be made in Cash, Cheques, Postal Orders (and PayPal - please email Michael for details).
and we should have the tickets ready in time for the Lanarkshire Restricted to allow us to sell them there also.
EVENTS taking place at the Quiz night will include a raffle, throw money at the bottle and
shuttle target games for the children.
We will also be providing tea/coffee with a selection of cakes.
If anyone wishes to add any suggestions please feel free to do so.
PLEASE bear in mind that the Lanark Group and LASBA although share most of the same goals, they are not the same organisation. LASBA is the Association responsible for the development of the sport for the children of school age in Lanarkshire and as such the funds raised will go directly towards maintaining the children's side of the sport.
Things such as the Primary, Junior and Secondary Quaichs, the Primary and Secondary Championships, the trophies, medals certificates, the hire of halls for all of these events, the buying of shuttles for these events and participation in the LASBA County team events plus all of the administration involved (printing of entry forms, school and personal affiliation letters, mailings regarding school badminton events throughout the year and results booklets etc) and also the website running costs.
As you can see there are a fair amount of things that the money raised will be used for, and although some of this is generated from entry fees for individual competitions and affiliation fees from schools and individuals, this does not completely cover the costs of keeping the children's sport alive and well in our area. At present we are actively seeking sponsors and local council funding to help with this too.
We cannot stress enough that the members of the committee, parents, teachers and individuals that give up their time to help setup and run all the tournaments, championships and take care of the admin do so on a voluntary basis and do not get paid for this - so every penny goes towards the children's benefit and participation in the sport.
We thank you for your continued support of LASBA.
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Under 16 Inter Area Team Selection for 23/09/07 The team that competed finished 3rd behind Ayrshire and Edinburgh |
Under 18 at Ashington 08-09/09/07
The team came in 4th - More news and photos from the team pages HERE |
U17 UK School Games 23-25/08/07 in Coventry
The U17 UK School Games were held in Coventry over 3 days.
The Scotland Team finished in overall 2nd Place - winning 2 out of their 3 matches
"For the first time in the event’s history, Channel 4 will broadcast two, one-hour UK School Games programmes from 8.00am to 9.00am on Sunday 16th and Sunday 23rd September."
quoted from the UK school games website
Full information and Results can be found at
www.ukschoolgames.com |
Under 15 Quadrangular - Scottish Team Selection
The team will consist of 10 Players for the Scotland team - 4 of them from Lanarkshire!!! |
Under 12 Anglo-Scottish Event at Inverclyde - Largs - Team Selection
for 12 & 13 May 2007 The team will consist of 2 Lanarkshire girls and 3 Lanarkshire boys:
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Lanarkshire Badminton Group