The Southend club is sad to report that Julian Corfield passed away peacefully in hospital on 1 January 2026 aged 77 years old after a period of ill health. There will be a commemorative meeting in Southend on Saturday 7 February – please contact Steve Wedlock (s.wedlock@sky.com) for further details.
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SCCU U2050: Surrey 7-9 Essex At Cheam. With a history of defeat at this venue, Essex returned home happy on a wet and blustery day, with a 9-7 victory and qualification to the ECF championship stages assured. See full details and Michael Spurr’s report on the U2050 page (link below). The SCCU Championship is still […]
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6 December 2025 SCCU U2050: Essex 7½-8½ Surrey At Wanstead. Surrey not used to winning at Wanstead took an early lead but Essex fought back to level. Then Surrey took a two point lead, but Essex managed to fight level at 7-7, with two games in play. Surrey squeezed a win out of one of […]
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SCCU U2050: Middx 4-12 Essex At Childs Hill. Michael Spurr assembled a strong team to take to Childs HIll. While still not at full strength, Essex inflicted on the home team a 12-4 defeat, only eclipsed in the post-covid era by the 12½-3½ victory at home to Kent in 2022-23, but certainly the largest Away […]
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Essex returned empty-handed from a match double at Cheam. SCCU U1850: Surrey 10-6 Essex. At Cheam. Essex won over the top six boards by 4½-1½, but the story of the other 10 was a tale of Essex woe, with eight losses against one lone win and a draw. Yet there was nothing between the sides, […]
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SCCU U2050 Essex 8½-7½ Middx. At Wanstead. At the same stage last season, Essex U2050 were on 0/2 on their way to 0/3, finishing with 2/6 including double defeats v Middx. Both ghosts were laid to rest in this new campaign, following last month’s away victory v Kent with a narrow home win against Middx, […]
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A roundup of matches to date (latest at the top). There is a slightly staggered appearance to the SCCU calendar for once, resulting from several more fixture changes than usual. Matches normally paired on the same date (e.g. Essex v Middx at U1850 and U1450) are now, for various reasons, split. The overall fixtures calendar […]
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Better late than never, the annual Team Blitz and the Lightning Championship will take place on 9 November 2025 at Wanstead House, 21 The Green, Wanstead E11 2NT, on the ground floor of the main building. These are both Essex closed events. Schedule Team Blitz in the morning 9.45 am for 10.00 am, limited to […]
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Played Tuesday, 23 September 2025, at Wanstead Bd Wanstead B R1 R2 Thurrock 1 Whitton, Terry D 1861 (B, W) ½-½ ½-½ Ralys, Vincas 2040 (W, B) 2 Murrell, Mark RA 1815 0-1 0-1 Maguire, Jake 1484 3 Staniland, Philip 1792 0-1 0-1 Wilson, Mathew 1698 4 GopiKrishna, Ashwin 1790 1-0 1-0 Gibbons, Brendan 1437 […]
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Played Tuesday, 23 September 2025, at Wanstead Bd Wanstead A R1 R2 Basildon 1 Hodgson, John H 2087 (W, B) ½-½ ½-½ Somogyi, Tamas 2063 (B, W) 2 Spearman, David 2058 ½-½ 0-1 Kraszewski, David 1938 3 Cawdery, John 2007 ½-½ 1-0 Bara, V Radu 1901 4 Freeman, Ashley 1986 0-1 1-0 Gedvilas, Arunas 1910 […]
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