The Courier

In the mixed weather conditions June has offered, our U9 and U11 rounders teams ventured to Stafford Prep for the Midlands Rounder's tournament.

Both teams played fantastically making huge progress throughout the tournament, improving accuracy in fielding and becoming more aware of when to run and take advantage of mis-fielded balls.

Our Under 9 team finished in 3rd place overall after taking two wins, one draw and a very tightly contested loss.

Malvern St James 8-3.5 win
Old Vic 8.5-5.5 win
Crackley 7.5-7.5 draw
Stafford Prep 5-5.5 loss

The U11 team finished in 2nd in their pool taking them through to play off positions. They ended up finishing in 5th position overall.

Castle House 6.5-5.5 win
Old Vic 4-6.5 loss
Malvern St James 8-5 win
Bedstone College 7-10 loss

A great team effort and show of team spirit from all of Crescent's players.

Often the advice before a sports fixture is ‘do your best’ in an effort to not put too much pressure on a child. However, it is very hard to do your best all of the time. What is so pleasing is that the Crescent children seem to be able to do this more often than not. This championship was no exception. Those that we tentatively hoped would come back with a medal did not disappoint and others put in personal best performances but were just beaten by a stronger athlete. That really is a case of ‘all you can do is your best.’

• Gold: Olivia M (sprint), George B (600m and long jump), Amy R (throw), Eve F (long jump)
• Silver: Olivia M (high jump), Fin C (high jump), Kyle K (long jump)
• Bronze: Sam S (high jump), Sienna M (throw)

Our annual school tennis tournament came to a finish this week despite the poor weather over the term. The semi-finals were fourth seed Amelie against Fin and the all Year 5 clash of George and Matthew. Fin knocked another seed out to reach the final having already overcome first seed Mehul. George and Matthew played a very energetic match with a number of incredible rallies. George came out victor.

The final was high quality with some great ground strokes. It was pleasing to see great sportsmanship with George calling a let feeling Fin had been hard done by and then later, Fin turned down a let feeling that he would have not got to the ball anyway. In the end, George was the champion for 2019. A special mention to the ball boys and girls - Mia, Harry, Josh O and Matthew who were so slick and professional and kept the games flowing.