The Hundred Rounders Cup

What a day! £650 raised for Long Crendon school, lots of fun for everyone and the sun shone for us all. Well done Dorton Dragons for winning once again. 🤞we manage to organise it again next year. ⚾️

It’s official now... see you on 9th June in Long Crendon. ⚾️

Anybody missing any of these? Get in touch and we will reunite them with you...! 😊

What a day! And the sun came out too!😀

THANK YOU to all the helpers involved for the hours of organisation, setting up and taking down, selling on stalls, and offers of help during the day.
THANK YOU to all the team captains for coordinating the players. Without you this event would come to nothing! We really appreciate your willingness to be involved.
THANK YOU to all the players who made it such a family friendly event. Fun for young and old with some excellent fielding and batting witnessed throughout the day.
THANK YOU to all the umpires who kept the peace, and scored fairly.
THANK YOU to the bakers who kept our tummies filled.
AND THANK YOU teddy tombola girls for running such a popular stall this morning. We've successfully won back the teddies donated so our girls are very happy ;).

Photos will follow in due course. But right now I'm off for a large glass of wine 🍷

Until 2018/19....! ❤️⚾️❤️

Bunting ✅ gazebos ✅ rounders kit ✅ cakes ✅ refreshments ✅ ice cream ✅
Looking forward to seeing everyone in a few little hours at the playing fields. ⚾️⚾️😀

Nuva water has arrived ready for Saturday day! Whoop whoop. I had a little taste and can confirm that it is indeed delicious. Enjoy ;) 😊☀️⚾️ 💦

Running order for Saturday.
Don't forget the cakes, cash, picnics and sun-cream. 😁

Looking forward to the 24th June...
Participating villages have been out there practicing the game, ordering team shirts and baking cakes in preparation. PLUS we have been promised some delicious Nuva water to keep us all hydrated through the day. https://nuva.co.uk/

A light and refreshing water drink that you’ll want to have all day

TWO WEEKS TO GO...
It's not long now until The Hundred Rounders cup on Saturday 24th June. Rumour has it that a few teams have been putting in the hours practising for the big day!
The action kicks off around 10am and all 6 teams will get 3-4 matches each. Please remember to bring a Picnic lunch, deck chairs and rugs. We are providing afternoon tea but are hoping that each team will bring one or two traybakes to share. Delicious! Looking forward to seeing you all have some sporting fun. x

The Hundred Rounders Cup is back!
24th June 2017 from 10am to 4pm.
Live music, soft play, hot dogs and the finest home baked cakes will all be on offer, alongside rolling rounders matches of adults and children from local villages.
Put it in your diaries...

We've just had our first brief chat about next year's Rounders Cup. Exciting! Information to follow in the new year...
For now though, here is a great suggestion for Christmas presents from Aresson, who kindly gave us equipment to play with back in June...
http://www.aresson.co.uk/christmas-rounders-gifts/

Rounders Gifts for Christmas from Aresson Our best value balls at a range of 3 levels. Beginners will love the Junior Ball Set Intermediate players will take pleasure in the Autocrat Ball Set Top players will value the Super Match Ball Set

A fun family day for all.

(C) All Images Francesca E Kingsley Photography 2015.

Feel free to tag yourself and friends in images.

If you would like any images we can provide them on a CD or in print for a small charge.

After a few people have asked us about donating towards the day we thought that if you would also like to donate anything we would welcome any donations to the APFA, which is raising funds to create a Multi Use Games Area for the playing fields. You can include this in your payment for photos if you wish to order some. Please contact Fran directly regarding payments for photos. (If you just wish to donate, please contact us direct through this page.)

Please note all images uploaded are low res, any images purchased will be high res suitable for printing.

Email Francesca ([email protected]) for further details.

Final scores from yesterday (they were all very close!):
Joint 1st: Chilton - Sew on Target (and happy birthday Jenny!) and Rowant Rebels with 38 points
3rd: Ashendon with 37 points
4th: Dorton Dragons with 36.5 points
5th: Marsh Smashers with 36 points
6th: Legit Ladies of Ludgershall with 35.5 points
7th: The Ring Leaders with 32.5 points
8th: Lond Crendon with 28.5 points
9th: Winchendon Warriors with 26.5 points
10th: Brill with 21 points

Under 16's - who were very inspiring players to watch
1st: Nether Winchendon with 25.5 points
2nd: Dorton with 23.5 points
3rd: Ashendon with 20 points
4th" Brill with 11.5 points (and possibly the youngest team there so a fantastic result!)

Interesting to note, the high scorers were often those with lots of half rounders rather than full rounders... Worth thinking about for next years tactics. :-)

Wow! What a day. The weather was kind and all the teams played brilliantly. But the best bit was seeing all our local villages coming together to enjoy a family day out.

We're so proud of what we achieved by everyone pulling together, helping out on the run up to the event, setting up, and helping on the day, attending with huge enthusiasm, buying raffle tickets, baking cakes (so many cakes! How did they all get eaten?!), crafting the winning prizes (which look so beautiful), plus donating raffle prizes, fields for parking, hay bales, water slides, artwork, photography, craft boxes and of course plenty of time, energy and enthusiasm, not to mention the lovely food put on by The Hundred of Ashendon, which was a huge hit with young and old.

In particular, huge thanks to the Red Lion Social Club for letting us run with this idea and contributing so much to help make this a great day. Without them there would have been no children's toys, soft play, craft boxes, Marsh Gibbon Silver Band or all the free teas, coffees and squash. It was a generous gift to all of us and very much appreciated by all.

Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed to a fantastic community event. Fingers crossed we repeat it all again next year. :-)

P.S. please send us your feedback if you have things you'd like to see more/less of or generally have suggestions on the day. It's good to learn how to improve for next year...

If you have paid for food tickets and/or craft boxes, please come to the white gazebo in front of the pavillion building, in between the 2 pitches... You can collect everything from there.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the morning! :-)
Oh and just to let you know, that as much as we love dogs, we are unable to accommodate them at the playing fields tomorrow. We hope that doesn't cause any problems for you.

Parking - there is a field adjacent to the playing fields where everyone can park. Signs will be around the village showing you the way... It is on the right as you head out of the village on the Wotton rd towards Dorton/Wotton/Brill.
Disabled parking is reserved in the car park beside the playing fields.
Weather - unless it is torrential rain, we will carry on regardless. 😀

Aresson have very kindly donated a fantastic amount of rounders kit for the big day! Our favourite item is the pink bat and matching ball. We hope you'll enjoy using it all on Sunday!
Huge thanks to them for their generosity!

Calling everyone...! We desperately need some help setting up on Saturday morning from 9am at Ashendon playing fields. If you can spare only 30 mins, we'd still be really grateful. 😀

For all the team players, here is the running order of the day. Full instructions have been sent to your team captains today to pass on to you. Please ensure you are ready to play and at the right pitch 5 minutes beforehand as timings are tight...
Looking forward to it!

Don't forget your swimmers or a change of clothes as there is going to be a water slide in the afternoon... For all ages ;-)

Exciting news!
innocent drinks have promised to send us some yummy drinks for the day :-)
So as well as FREE squash, tea and coffee, we can now also offer you something fruity and delicious to quench your thirst too!

We have 16 teams competing. Some great team names too!
Just a reminder that I need order forms for early-bird food tickets and craft boxes by the end of this week. I'll be in Brill, Thame and Long Crendon this week so PM me if you'd prefer to give them to me directly...
Order form attached with details where to send...

So we have the Dorton Dragons as our first team name... Sounds like they might be dangerous competition...! What other team names are confirmed...?

EARLY BIRD OFFER! If you would like to try the delicious food offerings by The Hundred of Ashendon at their Food festival, you can make the most of an early bird ticket offer of £10 adults, £6 children. Please complete the order form below and send back with a cheque or give to your local team captain by 1st June.
PLUS if you would like your children to receive a CRAFT BOX to make on the day, please pre-order through this form. We can only provide them to people who order in advance.

PS - if there are some more under 16's teams wishing to enter, or wishing to be partnered with friends in another village, let us know.

Lots of villages are interested in entering teams which is great news. Here are the confirmed teams so far:
Adults: Ashendon, Brill, Dorton, Ludgershall, Nether Winchendon.
Under 16's: Ashendon, Nether Winchendon
If there are only a few people in your village interested, join up with another village and play together. Contact us for more details.

We are getting closer to the big day and so far so good. Food festival confirmed, music booked, children's activities organised.

So now we need some input from all of you. What is your village team going to be called....? answers on a post(card) :-)