Softball Season

ECA's one match winning streak was ended in dramatic fashion last Wednesday night by ESA. Brimming with confidence from our 100% record, ECA opted to bat first and were all out for a spectacular zero runs. ESA's very soft ball taking most of the credit - with even the big hitters struggling to hit it out of the diamond! ESA also struggled with the ball, but still managed to hit a home run and finished the innings on 3. Kevin taking a catch in the field and Amy taking 2 run-outs on first base. Unfazed ECA stepped up to the plate - it could only get better - and we did ourselves proud with a much improved innings, in which we again failed to score a single run! ESA hit another home run in their second innings, but the score was held to 5-0 by good work between Lucy and Amy, who managed to get all 3 ESA scalps on first base.

ECA encouraged a change of ball for the 3rd innings, and it looked to have paid off as Chris C hit a home run, getting ECA's first score on the board. This was unfortunately followed by three quick outs leaving ECA on a slightly disappointing 2 runs after 3 innings! ESA then took full advantage of the harder ball, quadrupling their score before being halted by a long catch by Johnny, and another 2 run-outs by Amy on first base (bringing her total to 7 outs in the game!) With the score at 20-3 ECA had it all to do in the 4th innings - and had a promising start with Kevin hitting a home run. It wasn't to be however, as another quick 3 outs saw ECA finish on 4 runs after 4 innings! This meant ESA had won by an innings and 16 runs, with the final score 20 - 4.

ESA offered to give us another short game - one innings each - then proceeded to score 16 runs very quickly indeed! With the light fading, ESA declared on 16 to give us a chance to bat. ECA rose like a phoenix from the flames, and began hitting runs left right and centre. With a home run each from Johnny, Kevin, Dave and myself - and an impressive 2 home runs off 2 balls from Chris C we managed to save face and kind of sort of won the second game 20-16!

Disappointed captain

...even more disappointed Johnny


...things weren't looking so good at this point...






...finally a home run for Johnny......and for Chris C.

Design Day

This year's Design Day took inspiration from the RIBA's competition to design your own Cabanon. As we left the office the heaven's opened, but undeterred we walked to the Barbican, arriving a little wet and windswept, but still eager.

After a quick tour and the rest of the morning in the Le Corbusier exhibition, we occupied the lower floor of the Barbican and set to work on our designs. Half-time crits ensued and the final designs were transferred to the RIBA competition postcards. After a brief synopsis from each entrant and careful examination, Peter was voted the (in house) winner. All the postcards were then raced to the RIBA to be entered into the (real) competition.