England field their European champions

plus Stewart King for senior homes

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England will field their European Championship-winning team when they bid to regain the Seniors Home Internationals title at Westport, County Clare, Ireland from September 29 to Otober 1.
The six-strong squad of Douglas Arnold (Copthorne, Sussex), Andrew Carman (Coventry, Warwickshire), Geoff King (West Essex, Essex), Chris Reynolds (Littlestone, Kent), Philip Slater (Sandiway, Cheshire) and Andrew Stracey (Littlestone, Kent) who lifted the European title for the first time last month, will be joined in Ireland by Stewart King (West Lancs, Lancashire).
It was a real team effort in Ascona in Switzerland with all six players contributing to the victory achieved with a 3-2 scoreline over Sweden in the final. Arnold has played in every Seniors Home Internationals since its inception in 2002 and has three English Seniors Championships, the last in 2006. The Sussex man has also represented England in all four European Seniors Team Championships to date.
Carman, won his first seniors cap in the Europeans, having been a full England international in 1979 and ’80. He played in his maiden seniors event in this year’s English Seniors Championship at Moor Park, finishing third and has since won the Midland seniors title.
Geoff King, no relation to Stewart, was capped at senior level for the first time in last year’s Seniors Home Internationals. The Essex man finished third in the South East Seniors Qualifying and tied fourth in this year’s English Seniors Championship.
Stewart King, the secretary/manager at West Lancs, last played in the England seniors team in 2006 when he was capped for the Europeans and Seniors Home Internationals. This year, he has won the Welsh Seniors Open at Prestatyn. Reynolds secured the English Seniors title at Moor Park in June, having finished runner-up two years ago and third in 2008.
He was first capped by England in the 2006 Seniors Home Internationals and has played in the last three European Seniors Team Championships. Reynolds has also helped Kent win the Seniors County Finals in 2007, he finished runner-up in the British Seniors last year, won the South East Seniors title last year.
Slater has been a regular in the England side since securing his first seniors cap in last year’s European Team Championships in Ireland and he also played in the 2008 Seniors Home Internationals.
A former Cheshire Seniors champion, he has helped Cheshire win two English Seniors County Championships. Stracey, like Carman, is a newcomer to the seniors scene, having won his first event in this year’s Irish Open Seniors before finishing runner-up to Reynolds in the English Championship.
With the boys and men’s Home Internationals titles already in England’s grasp, the seniors will be hoping to complete the Grand Slam by taking the title off the Irish who won at Tenby last year.
This will be the eighth playing of the Seniors Home Internationals following their inception in 2002 and England have won the title three times, the last at Caldy in 2007.