Great start to the boys and girls seasons

The basketball season has started strongly with some notable performances from both boys and girls teams.
In the Under 14 boys age group the team remain unbeaten, having defeated Sandringham and Nicholas Breakspear in the District League and St Columbas College in the County league 80 - 43. The victory against Sandringham was extremely hard fought and particularly impressive as Sandringham are last years County Champions. A possible County final beckons if they can maintain their hard work and commitment to training. Billy Cresswell has captained the team and led by example, but the whole squad are really starting to play some good team basketball.
In the girls age groups, the year 8 team competed a year out of age in the District Rally and were only beaten by size, strength and speed and certainly not basketball ability or hard work. They defeated Sandringham and Roundwood Park losing the other three games and finished fourth out of six teams. The fact they only lost by four points to the eventual winners (Nicholas Breakspear) is a measure of how well they played. Their performance bodes well for the Under 13 County League Season.
The Under 16 girls team retained their District Title, beating Sandringham 15 - and Roundwood Park 20 - 5. The squad consisted of 7 year 10 and 2 year 11 students. They are an impressive team and hopefully the year nine's will go on to reach their third successive County Final this year in the year 10 age group and the year eleven's will do the same in the Senior Girls County Competition.
The year seven girls team played really well in their District Tournament, winning all four games, scoring 30 points and only conceding 5.
The first game saw an easy 12 - 0 win against Samuel Ryder and this was followed up by 6 - 0 and 4 - 0 victories against Roundwood Park and Sir John Lawes respectively. Our final game against Sandringham was our closest but, even after making a number of substitutions throughout the match, we still came out 8 - 5 winners.
Lucia Grimer was our top scorer with 10 points, closely followed by Amber Young with 8. Our team defence was impressive, epitomised by Alice King against Sir John Lawes who sacrificed the chance to score and marked their strongest player out of the game.
The team now go on to represent St Albans in the County Tournament later in the season.
Well done and lets hope the season continues to be so successful!   

Bsketball fixture for the 2013/14 season

UNDER 15 BOYS COUNTY LEAGUE

2013-2014

 West Division

                            

QUEENS                                   QUE

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD                HHS

JOHN F KENNEDY                    JFK

CAVENDISH                             CAV 

LONGDEAN                              LON

BEAUMONT                             BEA

NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR        NBS 

MATCHES (Home team first)         

 1^st Round:            no game

2^nd Round:            NBS V BEA 

3^rd Round:            BEA V LON

4^th Round:            QUE V BEA

5^th Round:            CAV V BEA

6^th Round:            BEA V JFK

7^th Round:            BEA V HHS                    

 Feb. Half-term to March                   Semi finals and League final

 

Under 15 Boys District Basketball League 2013/14

9^th September      A BEAU v SAND

16^th September    A NBS v BEAU

23^rd September    A STABS v BEAU

30^th September    A BEAUv SCC             

UNDER 15 GIRLS COUNTY LEAGUE 2013-2014

 

TEAMS 

BEAUMONT                          BEA

QUEENS                               QUS

LONGDEAN                          LON

SANDRINGHAM                   SAN

JOHN F KENNEDY                JFK

BUSHEY MEADS                   BMD

NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR    NBS

HIGHFIELD                          HIG

                                                                

MATCHES (Home team first)                              

                             

1^st Round:   BEA V SAN 

2^nd Round: BEA V NBS 

3^rd Round: BEA V LON  

4^th Round:   QUE V BEA

5^th Round:   BMD V BEA

6^th Round:   HIG V BEA 

7^th Round:   JFK V BEA   

Feb. Half-term to March          Semi finals and League final

 

UNDER 18 GIRLS COUNTY LEAGUE 2013-2014

 

TEAMS

BEAUMONT                    BEA

WESTFIELD                    WES

QUEENS                         QUE

 

MATCHES (Home team first)                              

BEA V QUE           WES V BEA           QUE V WES

Feb. Half-term to March         

League final (top 2)

UNDER 14 BOYS COUNTY LEAGUE 2013-2014

SANDRINGHAM                       SAN  

ST. COLUMBAS                        SCC

CAVENDISH                             CAV

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD                HHS

PARMITERS                            PAR

BEAUMONT                             BEA

HITCHIN                                  HIT

CHAUNCY                                CHA

 

MATCHES (Home team first)

1^st Round:     BEA V HIT               2^nd Round:             BEA V CAV 

            3^rd Round:     SCC V BEA              4^th Round:             HHS V BEA 
           5^th Round:      BEA V PAR              6^th Round:             BEA V CHA
           7^th Round:      SAN V BEA      

                                                                         

U14 Boys County Basketball Rally Monday 25^th November 2013

Group

Longdean (host)                                         1

Hitchin School                                            2

Sandrigham                                                2

Hemel Hempstead                                     1

St Columbas College (host)                       2

Parmiters                                                   1

St Clement Danes                                     1 (tbc)

Beaumont                                                  2

Chauncy                                                     1

       

Group 1 will play at, Longdean starting at 1.00 pm

Group 2 will play at SCC starting at 1.30pm

Finals will be played at SCC, starting at 5.00 p.m.

 

Under 14 Boys District Basketball League 2013/14

14^th October        SAND v BEAU

21^st October         BEAU v NBS

4^th November       BEAU v STG

11^th November     SCC v BEAU 

U12 Basketball Rally Monday 10^th March 2014

Group

Richard Hale   

Longdean (host)

Hitchin Boys

Sandringham

Hemel Hempstead

St Columbas College (host)

Parmiters

St Georges

Beaumont

Cavendish

Queens

                   Group 1 will play at venue TBC, starting at 1.00p.m.

                    Group 2 will play at Longdean, starting at 1.00p.m.

                   Group 3 will play at SCC, starting at 1.30p.m.

Finals will be played at St. Columba's College, starting at 5.00 p.m.

Under 12 Boys District Basketball League 2013/14

 

25^th November     BEAU v SAND

9^th December       SCC v BEAU

16^th December     SJL v BEAU

13^th January        BEAU v VER

20^th January        STABS v BEAU

27^th January        RWP v BEAU   

3^rd February        BEAU v NBS

10^th February      BEAU v MARL

UNDER 13 GIRLS COUNTY LEAGUE 2013-2014

 TEAMS

 

BEAUMONT                BEA

QUEENS                      QUE

SANDRINGHAM         SAN

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD  HHS

MATCHES (Home team first)                  

1^st Round:  SAN V BEA  

2^nd Round: BEA V QUE  

3^rd Round: BEA V HHS

 

Feb. Half-term to March        
3^RD/4^TH Play Off and League final (top 2 in league)


Under 13 Boys District Basketball League 2013/14

24^th February      A BEAU v SAND

3^rd March             A VER v BEAU

10^th March           A STABS v BEAU       

17^th March           A BEAU v SCC

Senior Boys Competition

Unfortunately, due to my ongoing back problem we are going to have to withdraw from the Senior Boys Competition. We have made every effort to stay in the competition but success in other competitions/ sports means that fixture pressure in a very short half term means there is no time to complete our league and semi final fixtures in the time available. Thank you to the whole squad for all of your hard work over previous seasons and look forward to challenging strongly at County level next season.

Under 14 boys County League basketball

There is a County League fixture for the Under 14 boys squad the first Monday back against Nicholas Breakspear. Please check the noticeboard at the gym and let Mr Panting or Mr Jump know if you cannot play. This is an important game as there is still the chance to qualify for the semi finals if we can win our last two games.

Senior County League basketball after half term

The two Senior Boys County League group matches have been arranged for after half term. We are playing St Columbas on Tuesday 26th Feb and Richard Hale on Tuesday 5th March, both are home games. Squad lists are on the noticeboard at the gym and there should be a copy on the notice board in the sixth form common room. There are sixth form, year 11 and year 10 members in the squad. Please see Mr Jump or Mr Panting asap if you cannot play and tick your name on the team sheet if you are available. Many thanks, Mr Stewart

Important changes to competitions/fixtures

Due to an ongoing back injury I have reluctantly had to withdrawn a number of teams from certain competitions. With the department one person light and the number of extra curricular fixtures/competitions entered in other sports, there is just not enough dates available to meet the present fixture backlog.
I have based these decisions on distances travelled to fixtures, deadline dates, fixtures already played in competitions, teams playing out of age group and opportunities for players to compete in other competitions.
Therefore the competitions we have had to withdraw from are: Under 13 girls County League, Under 16 Boys County League and Under 17 Boys National Cup.
I hope that you can appreciate that we are still in a number of County Competitions and that staff members not usually scheduled to take fixtures for these competitions will be giving up additional time to do so.
If all squad members for each team can please keep checking the blog and PE noticeboard it would really help the department.
I have posted new fixture dates for all age groups still in County Competitions and the year 7 District League starts against Roundwood Park on the 21st January. Please check the blog for new fixture dates.
Good luck in all forthcoming fixtures.

Mr Stewart