Over 30 Leicestershire juniors played in the Four Counties Invitational Match for U18, U11, U11 Girls and U9s against Warwickshire, Oxfordshire & Northamptonshire that took place at Kenilworth School on Sunday 2nd December.
The U9 team was the most successful of the Leicestershire teams finishing 2nd in the competition with wins against both Oxfordshire & Warwickshire Yellow (Warkwickshire fielded 2 U9 teams) before going down 5.5-2.5 to Warwickshire Red in the last round. Individually Joshua Tang achieved 3 straight wins on board 2 with Madhav Eradi (board 5) also unbeaten with 2.5pts. Arooj Mahajan, Alex Shen & Martino Lombardo (on his county debut) all won 2 out of the 3 games.
The U11 team (comprising mostly year 5s) faced fierce competition losing in the first two rounds against Oxfordshire & Warwickshire but did well to draw with Northants in the last round. Aarav Sinha did well to score two wins.
It was a similar story for the U11 Girls (3 of whom are under 9) who similarly lost to Oxfordshire & Warwickshire in the first two rounds but finished well with a 3-1 win against Northants. Catharine Lv had an excellent competition with 3 wins.
The U18 team was missing many key players and much of the team was only just out of the the U11 ranks but nevertheless had relatively close matches with Oxfordshire (2.5 – 5.5) & Northamptonshire (4-4) but found it tough going against a dominant Warwickshire (1-7). Recently invited national squad member Jason Lv (aged 12) impressively won all 3 games on board 4.
Full detailed results of the competition are available here