This Sports Round Up features the much-anticipated delayed Smedley Cup. It took place on a cold but glorious afternoon up at Longford. This year was always going to be a close contest between the houses and it didn’t disappoint.
In the first round, Owen beat Darwin but Darwin’s young side defended tremendously well and certainly gave Owen a game. Talbot and Webb battled out the other match with Webb leading by a try before Talbot levelled. In the last play of the game Talbot went for a kick which resulted in a try and the win.
In the second round, Owen versus Webb was a closely contested match with just one try scored by Webb but the game could have gone either way. Talbot came out victorious against Darwin. This meant it was all to play for in the last round as Talbot had two wins under their belt but had to play Owen.
Webb convincingly beat Darwin in their last game which meant that if Talbot won their match they would win the tournament but if Owen beat them the result would be decided on points. Owen started well and scored the first try but Talbot battled back and ended up winning the game by two tries. Final standings in the Smedley Cup 2023 were:
1st – Talbot; 2nd – Webb; 3rd – Owen; 4th – Darwin
A gallery of photos can be found here. The overall house rugby competition is yet to be completed and these results will be announced next half term.
House basketball has been taking place every lunchtime since December and has seen an incredible 150 fixtures between the five houses with A-D teams in Y8-11 and Seniors. Results will be announced after half term.
External & Inter-School Sport
The U14 Badminton Team of Anish Parampalli, Min Yen Hsieh, Pranav Rangan, Jia Yang Tham were thrilled to win the County Championship in January.
In February, our cross country teams had a fantastic outing at the Shropshire Schools Cross Country Championships with the Year 7 team and the Year 8 & 9 team both coming second and the Year 10 & 11 team placing third.
Last weekend, our gymnastics team had a great day at the Midlands Qualifiers making it through to the National Finals in Group and Mixed Pair categories.
The U16 and U18 Hockey teams are looking forward to the Midlands Finals to be held at Rugby School in the first week after half term. All our Hockey teams have qualified for the County Finals which will take place at Wrekin College in March.
The U13 Rugby team has made it through to the semi-final of the County Cup which will take place after half term. They have had a very successful season so far with some recent excellent wins over Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby, St Ambrose School and Bishop Heber School.
For a comprehensive round up on all the netball action this half term, please see report written by by Mollie Edge, Melody Horton and Kirsty Parry in Lower Sixth.
