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SENECA WHO?

Chris Aylott

                                       

Seneca Sting fastball 2006

Match Reports 2007 Week 1   Week 2   Week 3  Week 4           Week 5 (1)   Week 5 (2)              2007 Final Report

   

Seneca Sting Fastballers 2007                                                                                                                                                               The Seneca Sting Team at the end of the                                                                                                                                                    2006 campaign. Read the story                                                                                                                                                     behind this picture HERE

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Doubtless, some long-time followers of Lilywhites fortunes via Programme and website are wondering "Who are these people? What is this foreign sport? What on earth does this have to do with my football team? The short answer is two-fold - nothing and and everything. The nothing bit, as the Monty Python gang would call it: "And now for something completely different!" The everything bit has to do with no less than three generations of sportsmen named Aylott, all of whom have links with Hoddesdon Town Football Club. Grandfather Albert performed prominently for both town and County throughout the first two decades of the 20th century; son Stanley proudly wore the jersey for the Lilywhites just before and just after the Second World War and nephew Chris moved to Canada with the other son, Jack, before being old enough to follow suit at Lowfield. Among other things, the youngest Aylott experienced life as a sports journalist and took up involvement in the somewhat obscure (to Britain!) sport of fast-pitch softball upon moving to places in Canada that lacked football (soccer) or cricket teams. Thanks to the power of the Internet, Chris picked up news of his grandfather and uncle's beloved Club early in the 21st century, and the dialogue between the two sporting factions started. Not dissimilar to last season's Lilywhites, the Seneca College Sting varsity women's fast-pitch team that Chris manages is rebuilding, a group of student athletes somewhat new to each other, an underdog perhaps, but nevertheless playing for the love of the game much as the players do at Hoddesdon Town FC. This year, as usual, their short season begins with a week of trials, training and practice in September on the first day of school, and ends, before it gets too cold to play, with a tournament on October 19th & 20th at Durham College, Oshawa.