The Courier

On Monday 4 March the U10 Netball team travelled to Stafford Prep for the Midlands ISA Netball Tournament.  As reigning U9 ISA Champions they felt the pressure to perform well and rose to the challenge.  

With 12 teams split across two pools we started the tournament successfully with a 4-0 win against Castle House. Our next game proved a little more tricky, and a lot more physical, against Dodderhill, the girls worked hard and fought strongly but ended up with a 5-4 loss.  Heads still high, the team went on to win the other three games in the pool to earn themselves a place in the semi finals.  

• 8-0 Win V Salterford House 
• 4-1 Win V Crackley Hall 
• 2-0 Win V Stafford Prep

The weather took a dramatic turn for the worse in the final games of the pool round, with heavy rain and hail meaning the tournament had to be moved indoors for the semi finals.  After a towelling off the girls went out to take on Grantham Prep in the semi finals.  Fantastic marking and skilful movement of the ball up court made for a gripping and evenly matched game ending with extra time and then finally to golden goal, unfortunately for us this did not go in our favour, and we ended with a 2-1 loss.  The play-offs then saw us take on Dodderhill, again this was a very close match in which the game could have gone either way, unfortunately we were unable to make the most of our chances ending with a final score of 2-1 to Dodderhill putting us in to 4th place overall.    

A fantastic effort by all of the girls who were a delight to be with, they played extremely well and worked hard as a team, showing the School Promise at all times to make Crescent proud.