St Columba's Cricket Club
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St. Columba's Cricket Club (SCCC) is a cricket club in Middletown
, Newport County, Rhode Island
. SCCC was founded by Tony Fairchild in 1993. Fairchild named the club after St. Columba's
Episcopal Church
, of which he was a member. The club has hosted an invitational tournament in October every year since 1995, when the University of Rhode Island
stopped hosting its invitational tournament.
Middletown, Rhode Island
Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,150 at the 2010 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown."-Geography:...
, Newport County, Rhode Island
Newport County, Rhode Island
-National protected areas:* Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge* Touro Synagogue National Historic Site-History:Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport...
. SCCC was founded by Tony Fairchild in 1993. Fairchild named the club after St. Columba's
St. Columba's Chapel (Middletown, RI)
St. Columba's Chapel in Middletown, Rhode Island, is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island of the Episcopal Church. The church is located at 55 Vaucluse Avenue, Middletown, Rhode Island. The chapel is named for the Irish-born missionary St...
Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
, of which he was a member. The club has hosted an invitational tournament in October every year since 1995, when the University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
stopped hosting its invitational tournament.
External links
- Official site of St. Columba's Cricket Club