Fixtures
Saturday 15th December
– Y7-10 Rugby V Nicholas Breakspear
Monday 17 th December – Y9
District Basketball V Nicholas Breakspear (H)
Tuesday 18th December –
Y11 National Cup Basketball V Queens (A)
Saturday 22nd December
- Christmas Break
Football Practices will restart
after Christmas with the District Cup and County Cup competitions resuming.
Results
Well done to Tom Hirst (Y8) on
some excellent recent results in the pool. Tom has been working very hard for
Hatfield swimming club and over the weekend his club were able to win the
Regional Nationals and secure a spot in Cardiff for the Nationals. Well done.
Congratulations to Elliot Breen
(Y7) on finishing 68th in the Southern Inter Counties XC
championships. This is a fantastic achievement, especially as Elliot still has
a year left in this age group. It was Elliot’s first County vest so an
excellent feat, well done.
Also a huge congratulations to all
of students involved in Gym Club. The Gym show is at the end of January and
many students are working very hard on perfecting their routines.
Wednesday 5th December
– Y9 County League Basketball V Longdean Won 45-24
The year 9 team played their 3rd
game in 3days against Longdean on Wednesday and recorded another victory. The
team have been making excellent progress thanks to some very hard work from Mr
McNally on a Monday lunch. The game started at a fast tempo and some excellent
offense from Nat Nicholls and Dan Goldingay saw us gain an early lead. After a
while it became clear that Longdean also had much to offer going down the floor
and without some fortune on our part with a number of key missed lay ups were
we able to come in at half time up. In the second half the team started to
implement their new offense and with some excellent fast breaks from Dom Boost,
we were able to stretch our lead taking the victory 45-24 and almost booking a
spot in the County Semi Final with one game remaining against Hemel in the new
year.
Y9 Girls Basketball
In October, we entered the U14 Girls Basketball Team into
the St Albans and Harpenden Rally and finished in 2nd place, which
meant that we went into the Hertfordshire Schools County Rally. Having only
been playing Basketball for 2 months, the girls were incredibly pleased to make
it that far. They had a shaky start to their pool matches, where in their first
game they showed a real determination but narrowly lost to JFK 9-6. They had a
better result in the next game where they drew with Simon Balle School. The
last pool match was against Queens, whom are an experienced side, with some
very good players, however, the girls dug deep and after some amazing shooting
by Emily Caswell, they convincingly beat them 20–8, meaning they had made it
through to the semi-finals! We came up against Meridian School, who again, were
a very experienced side and although the girls defended well and scored some
good baskets, towards the end of the match, Meridian pulled away to take the
win. Sandringham ended up coming 3rd overall, which is an absolutely
fantastic achievement, especially considering they have only been playing for 2
months. We are very proud of our team which is packed full of potential, well
done Emily Mair, Emily Caswell, Chloe Pettengell, Hannah Gill, Erin Breen,
Frankie Hammond, Abi Charnock, Maxime O’Malley and Charlie Boyle.
Thursday 6th December –
Y11 County League V Beaumont Won 67-49
The Year 11 team played their
first County League match of the season. After being postponed last week, the
boys were keen to get started and put their hard work to the test against a
very strong Beaumont team. At the end of the 1st quarter we had a 1
point lead over the opposition with some fantastic driving from Sam Tanton. The
defensive display from Jacob Moody and Maxx Hood was exceptional and limited
Beaumonts best player to minimal points. After the 3rd quarter we
led 53-36 and every player had contributed. The last quarter gave the team an
opportunity to experiment and look at some offensive strategies, with an
eventual victory of 67-49. Well done.
Friday 7th December –
Y10 National Cup Basketball V Melbourn Community School Won 56-45
On Friday the year 10 (District
Champions) travelled to Cambridgeshire to tackle Melbourn Community School in
their first game on a National level. This was a daunting and yet exciting
prospect. The team were keen to put in a good performance and start their new
challenge off well. Once the game started it quickly became evident that we
were far better drilled and more talent in our team, however the harder we
worked the more of a challenge we made it for ourselves. The half time score
was 22-17 to the home side. Not a refelection of skill level at all. As the
game wore on we started to execute our offense slightly better and eventually
edged ahead in the final quarter thanks to some excellent rebounding from Alex
Frankl. The eventual score was not a reflection of the hard work the team have
put in, but a win nonetheless.
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