Sport

U11 Girls Finish Fifth In ISA National Hockey Tournament

On Thursday 14 November the U11A Girls hockey team travelled down to London to play in the Independent School’s National Hockey Tournament at the Lee Valley Hockey Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.  It was the only place in England that was dry that day!  

Crescent School started in Pool B and faced four games in the first round.  The girls started brilliantly and didn’t concede a goal in the group stage.  They finished at the top of the pool.  Head of Girls Games, Rachel McCollin, said, “The girls played tremendously, I was very pleased with their performance and that their game-play was commented on by one of the umpires who said how well they kept their shape, looked up before passing and worked together as a team.”

The results in the pool were:   

0-0 draw against Queen Ethelburga’s College from York

1-0 win against Russell House Prep School from Kent

4-0 win against Abercorn School from Sussex

2-0 win against Quinton House School from Northamptonshire

Topping the pool qualified the girls for the Cup competition and in the quarter-finals they faced Lewes Old Grammar School.  After the break for lunch, the team took a while to settle to the game allowing Lewes to score an early goal, despite getting stuck straight in and fighting back hard the team could not quite convert their attacking play in to an equaliser and they lost 1-0.  Lewes Old Grammar went on to win the tournament.

Crescent were pleased to finish joint fifth overall out of the 23 schools from across the country taking part - it was a great achievement.

Mrs McCollin continued, “The girls conducted themselves fantastically upholding the school values at all times, they really were a pleasure to be with and made both myself and Mrs Robinson extremely proud.”

Well done to Captain Phoebe Causer and her team Arabella Drinkwater, Eve Ferguson, Harriett Gray, Sienna Morgan, Amy Robinson, Issy Slaytor, Hattie Sarkies and Chloe Wensley. All the girls are awarded Junior da Vincini's for their hard work and achievement.