| Clubs - arrange your 2025/2026 heat ASAP |
All HIWCBA EBU Affiliated clubs are invited to hold a heat of the Pottage Cup. Please use website contact us and/or contact mike kinsey to ensure that all heats are known by HIWCBA and can be listed below. When known to the webmaster, the heat will be added to the list of heats below and added to the HIWCBA website calendar.
NOTE: Club heats should be held on or before 28th February 2027.
NOTE: For the 2026/27 season there will be no semi-final; Those who qualify from their heat will go straight to the final which is to be held in Winchester on 14th March 2027.
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| Pottage Heats and Semi Final Qualifiers |
The Pottage Cup is the HIWCBA major pairs championship
Heats in Clubs - see below
Final : 14th March 2027 F2F Winchester Racquets and Fitness Club
If you are an HIWCBA club and intend to hold a heat, but the heat is not listed below then please inform mike Kinsey mike52kinsey@gmail.com and/or use website contact us. The heat will be added to the list of heats below and added to the HIWCBA website calendar.
The following clubs have heats of the pottage cup click the heat you are interested in below to go the the relevant club website): with qualifiers for the final as detailed further below (
Heats / Final Qualifiers
TBD
Finalists: Please inform Mike Kinsey mike52kinsey@gmail.com if you can't make the finals so that the numbers in the semi final are known.
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| 2025-26 Pottage Cup Congratulations (Copy) |
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The 45 board board Pottage Cup (HIWCBA pairs championship) Final on 25th April was close at the top between Aleks & Gareth Birdsall, Karen Dewar & Adrian Fontes, & Stuart Strachan & Eleanor Rice! Going into the last round Aleks & Gareth were leading Karen & Adrian with Stuart & Eleanor in third. But an outright top on their 43rd board propelled Stuart & Elanor into the narrowest of leads. But their 45th board was not so good! Aleks & Gareth meanwhile had a slightly less than average 3 board set. So with a solid last round Karen & Adrian prevailed by a single match point! Congratulations to Adrian Fontes & Karen Dewar (pictured above with the Aleks & Gareth, who finished second ,shown inset) on winning the Pottage Cup, particularly to Adrian, who has been a County stalwart, on collecting his first Pottage Cup. Full results here. And good luck to the top four (Adrian Fontes & Karen Dewar, Aleks & Gareth Birdsall, Stuart Strachan & Eleanor Rice, Malcolm Green & John Fairhurst) who qualify to represent HIWCBA in the Corwen.
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