6th February

Fixtures

Tuesday 12^th February – Gym Show

1^st XI District Cup Football V STABS (A)

                                                Y7 District Cup Football V St. Columbas

                                                Y10 National Basketball V Lea Manor @ Samuel Ryder

Wednesday 13^th February – Y8 County League Basketball V Richard Hale (H)

Tickets are still available for the gym show on 12^th February. Anyone interested should contact the Sandpit for more information. It should be a spectacular event and not worth missing.

Results

Well done to all of the students who competed on Saturday at Verulamium Park in the County X-Country Championships. There was an excellent standard of athletics taking place and a number of our students ran very well. The best performance of the day came from year 7 student Elliot Breen finishing 3^rd. This is an excellent achievement and bodes well for the future.

Pre-Junior Boys

Elliot Breen 3^rd

Pre-Junior Girls

Grace Gill 13^th

Junior Boys

Josh Farraway 27^th

Toby Zell 31^st

Mauri Duran 33^rd

Junior Girls

Erin Breen 25^th

Lizzie Markwell 41^st

Michelle Irwin 60^th

Thursday 31^st January

On Thursday the year 10 football team took on St. Columbas in the 1^st round of the District Cup. The game was played on Westmintser Lodge’s pitch and the conditions were surprisingly good considering the rain and snow that has fallen lately. The team started very strongly and quickly established the lead as Toby Parker pounced on a cross from Luke Foster after 10 minutes. The game continued to ebb and flow as possession was being exchanged by both teams. As the second half started it soon became evident that SCC were attacking to get the equaliser. There were some excellent saves from Tom McLeod to keep the opposition out and this was ultimately what won the game. Well done on a well fought result.

Friday 1^st February

The year 10 team took on Mount Grace in their second game in two days. The occasion seemed to get the better of the team and after 10 minutes we were 2-0 down to a team that did not seem to have the quality we did. The game was always going to be an uphill battle from there and by half time the score was 3-0. The second half was a closer affair and we managed to win it 2-1 with goals from Toby Parker and Greg Moseley.

The year 7 team played Townsend in the last 16 of the County Cup for a place in the Quarter Final. The pitch was very wet and heavy underfoot and did change the style of football played. There were some excellent performances in a game that became quite heated at times. Louis Roberts played exceptionally well, even contributing to the scoreline which finished at 3-2, putting us into the quarter final of the competition. A very good performance under the circumstances and a well-deserved spot in the next round.

Monday 4^th February

Year 7/8 Girls Football Tournament

Year 7 – An excellent performance from the year 7 girls again in a local tournament saw they have a variety of results and lots of possession of the ball. It was a frustrating time as Sandringham had all the ball and were often in the opponents half but failed to convert any chances into goals! There were some excellent performances from players such as Emma Wilkinson, Jess Levy and Megan Roome. The final outcome of the tournament was a good 4^th place. This week’s player of the tournament was Sophie Hegerty for excellent attacking prowess and determination. Well done all girls involved!

Year 8 – The tournament saw the year 8 Sandringham team dominate their first two games where lots of goals were scored. Some great efforts from all the girls left them narrowly missing out on going through to final from their pool as they lost unfortunately to STAGS but there were some courageous individual performances from Maya Yapp, Ellen Fox and Charlie Boyle. A fantastic show of goals and some great interchange between defence and attack was great to see and well done to all girls who played!

Tuesday 5^th February

Year 8 Football vs Broxbourne (H) 3-1 County Cup

It was a fantastic game which saw two sides battle it out on a cold and windy afternoon. There was some great defensive performances from Oliver Moody in goal and Hayden Kemp-Robertson, Adam Smith and Alex Stevens to deny Broxbourne many clear cut chances at goal. Marco Merlo opened up the scoring late into the first half with an amazing left footed strike just beating the goalkeepers hand and dropping into the net. At half time Sandringham were dominating in possession and chances on goal finishing the half 1-0 up. After the break Broxbourne fought back with some good phases of play and got themselves back into game scoring from a fast break where Sandringham lost possession high up the pitch. The Sandringham team worked hard to get themselves back in front when the ball dropped to Bilal Bendahman whose shot was saved narrowly going into the far corner of the goal to make the score 2-1. Sandringham them looked strong in attack once more and soon after the second goal Marco Merlo doubled his tally with a fantastic driving shot across the goalkeeper into the far corner of the goal. Broxbourne struggled to get back into the game through excellent defending and concentration from players such as Oscar James, Ashley Willing and Kyle Hoyte. The man of the match this week went to Marco Merlo for inspiring the team to victory and contributing two goals to the game. Well done boys! Now through to the quarter finals of the county cup.