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Girls’ Sport Autumn Term Netball Report: Celebrating a Winning Season It has been an exceptional start to the season for all Junior teams.To date, Bablake teams have won an amazing 45 games out of 47 played! Our players have shown great enthusiasm in lessons, regular commitment to lunchtime practices and after school clubs and thoroughly deserve their success.The Friday evening netball club for Year 5 and 6 girls regularly attracts over 40 pupils who finish off their week at school with friendly games of netball. The U11 A and B teams are unbeaten this term.They have won all 16 games played, scoring a fantastic 159 goals and conceding only 55.They have defeated teams from The Croft, Saint Martin’s, Solihull Prep, Crackley Hall, Bilton Grange, KHPS, Bromsgrove Prep and The Crescent. Both teams were also in a match winning position of 6-3 and 5-1, in possibly their
toughest fixture of the season, against our Senior School U12 teams, when heavy rain forced the matches to be abandoned. Our U11 C and D teams started their season extremely well, continuing the Bablake winning streak, with the C team winning 5-3 and the D team 6-0 against KHPS. The U10 teams show great promise for the future.The U10 A team has won 8 of their 9 matches this term and show a good understanding of team work in their game play.They have recorded some impressive victories which include a 13-0 defeat of Saint Martin’s, 13-1 v Crackley Hall, an impressive 13-0 win against Warwick Prep, a 13-1 victory over Bromsgrove Prep and a 16-2 defeat of KHPS.The B team is unbeaten this term with 8 convincing victories.The squad of players have improved its skills throughout the term and can be proud of a fine set of results, which includes victories of 16-0, 8-0 , 15-0, 15-3, 8-2 and 10-4 against Bilton Grange, Saint Martin’s, Crackley Hall, KHPS,
The Croft and Crescent School.The U10 C team suffered an early setback when they lost their first match of the season in September against Warwick Prep, but soon recovered to win their next 2 games convincingly with scores of 10-1 and 7-2.The D team made a promising start to their fixtures with an impressive 10 -2 victory over KHPS. The final note of congratulations must go to the U9 A and B teams who have made an excellent start to the season, with both teams winning all 4 matches.The A team defeated KHPS 5-0, Crackley Hall 6-2,The Croft 7-4 and won a closely fought match against Solihull Prep by 4-3 goals. The B team also won its matches against the same opposition, scoring 16 goals in total and conceding just 2 goals! Well done to all players for your hard work throughout the term and a special thank you to parents for your support at matches. Mrs Reed, Miss Hingley and Miss Shorter
Hockey Report Both U11 and U10 teams made promising starts to the season, with the U11s losing only one game and the U10s remaining unbeaten so far this year. At the IAPS Tournament the U11 A team performed exceptionally well, despite being under strength, and certainly improved as the tournament progressed.They proved to be worthy opposition to many of the stronger schools we played. Although we didn’t win any games we conceded very few goals, which was a credit to the defence and Connie Patterson, who was outstanding in goal. The season continued with an excellent all-round team performance in the
Senior School U12 Tournament. As the only Year 6 team in the tournament, it was always going to be a challenge playing against girls one year older. In the five games played the team lost 1-0 to Princethorpe College (who were unbeaten in the whole tournament), drew three games and won the final game against Twycross School 4-0.
The team played with outstanding tenacity throughout the tournament. With just a little more composure in front of goal they could easily have won more games. However, coming third in the competition was a fantastic effort and showed the girl’s great potential. Mr Bogyor
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