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Next season's HIWCBA bridge programme is available now in this website's calendar. Click more info in calendar or in page entries below to enter the HIWCBA competitions until the end of 2025.

56 pairs signed up for the Blue Point Swiss Pairs held jointly with Berks & Bucks and Dorset. The event was superbly run by Richard Banbury, many thanks. Thank you to all for entering  to make the field such a good size.
Congratulations to the overall winner and trophy winners as follows:
 Bob Holder & David Owen  were overall winners and are awarded the Denys Jenkins Trophy (for Berks & Bucks entrants).
 Steve Preston & Fred Hotchen, win the HIWCBA Wessex Trophy, by finishing 2^nd after winning their final match against fellow HIW F2F regulars Mike Yeo & Guy Lawrenson 20-0,  to rise above several Wessex cup candidates (because they entered via the HIWCBA website) who  are unlikely to appear in HIWCBA F2F events such as the Yuletide Swiss Teams on 14th December (enter here if you haven’t already) - For example, Nichola Cockerill-Smith & Clive Owen who finished third.  The next online blue point HIWCBA event is the Candlestick swiss pairs in January (joint with Essex) – enter here.
Miles Cowling & Ian Walsh (24^th=)  take the (Dorset) Weymouth Cup
Full wessex cup results here

We are saddened to announce that Mahmood Nurmohamed passed away in November.
Mac was a fine bridge player (winning the Pottage twice) and a fantastic cricketer in his day.
It was always a pleasure and a challenge to play against him.
RIP Mac.

The 11th HIWCBA CIO AGM was held successfully and quorately at Petersfield Community Centre on 18th November with club bridge, scored at county level, after. Click for AGM Agenda,  Chairmans report, HIW 2024 Accounts and First Draft Minutes. The bridge after the AGM was won by Stephen Scott & Simon M Taylor (Full results here).

The EBU have removed the restriction on only having 12 players representing the county in the Tollemache (County Teams of 8) Qualifier. HIWCBA took full advantage of this. The following pairs  represented the county over the weekend of 8th/9th November:
Jeremy Dhondy & Andy Hughes,
Peter Crouch & Geoff Oldfield,
Fred Hotchen & Bob McRobert,
Steve Lee & Andrew Doye,
Gabriel Hearst & James Bond,
Stuart Strachan & Eleanor Rice,
Gareth & Aleks Birdsall.

The format of the qualifier was two all play all groups of 15 counties with the top 4 teams of each group qualifying for the final. HIWCBA were in the red group. In Saturday's last round, HIWCBA defeated neighbours Dorset, who were also doing very well, to climb into first place overnight. However, Sunday morning went less well, including a 10th round defeat to Warwickshire. At the start of the last round of the event, HIWCBA found themselves in 5th place just behind Gloucestershire, whom they overtook in the final round. However Warwickshire finished better and ended 4th= with HIWCBA. - progressing to the final at HIWCBA's expense due to the result of the sunday morning head to head match. Close but no cigar - commiserations to all who just failed to get HIWCBA to the final. Full results here.

38 pairs played in the HIWCBA Jack High Pairs on Sunday 19th October across three venues (8 @ Colden Common, 11 @ Basingstoke, 19 @ Lymington) . Special congratulations to the  Overall winners and Cup winners : David Heyward & Kate Morris, Peggy Bennett & Heather Graham 2nd  (both playing at Lymington), David Walton & Ann James 3rd (The top pair in the overall ranking playing at Basingstoke and to Jane Weight & Mike Fithyan (8th overall),  the top pair in the overall ranking playing at Colden Common. Full overall rankings and rankings for each venue are available on this websites results pages.

The HIWCBA 2025-26 season got off to a good friendly start with the Candover Pairs on Sunday 5th October.  Basingstoke Bridge Club hosted a very pleasant afternoon's bridge. And provided an excellent tea. It was close at the top; the top two pairs at the end of the penultimate round both lost their last round matches and dropped to 4th and 5th.  Fittingly a Basingstoke pair were victorious. Congratulations to Marian Rudd and Dorothy Rivers (Right & left above) with Gary Towns & Keith Philpott 2nd and Lilias Lamont & Mike Kinsey 3rd. Full results here

HIWCBA entered teams of 8 in each of the three divisions of the Metropoliton Cup on Saturday 27th September. Well done to all teams with special congratulations to the C Division team who won their division:
C Division : Phil Brown & Keith Bennett, Guy Malcolm & Hugh Merry, Rick Assad & Dennis Adams,Paul Londesborough & Andrew Bingley (1st out of 5 teams - Full results here)
B Division : Nigel Dent & Chun Yin Kam, Stuart Strachan & Eleanor Rice, Mike Kinsey & Steve Scott, Michael Yeo & Stevie Parker (5th= out of 8 teams - Full results here)
A Division : Steve Preston & James Clark, Tony Truluck & Stuart Burnett, Karen Dewar & Adrian Fontes, Lottie Bedford & Gabriel Hearst (6th out of 8 teams - Full results here)

The 2024/25 season Cahalan Cup final was held belatedly on 9th September - congratulations to Team Hyde (Dick Hyde, Bob McRobert, Jeremy Crouch, Geoff Oldfield) on beating Team Birldsall (Gareth Birdsall, Sonia Zakrzewski, Graham Allan, Adam Dunn)  82-55. Team Hyde held a 30 imp lead at half time and never looked like being caught in the second half. See the rather woeful EBU record of the knoclout event here (eg who played in which team!?!). Its now time to enter this seasons Cahalan and other knockout competitions (eg HICKO) - please contact Mike Kinsey to do so.