Talk with Tina - BCS Regional Championships & County Cup Last 16 Round Up

BCS Regional Champs – Surrey Sports Park – Tuesday 15 Nov 2011

An early start of 7.15am saw the netballers, together with April and Sophi who were representing the College in the Cross Country Event and Chris O’Neil who was representing the College in Squash, leave for the BCS Regional Netball Championship in Surrey. The journey was a quiet one, given the time of the morning, with no arguments about the music in the mini bus.

We arrived to find that one of the colleges, Esher, who were in our pool had withdrawn leaving a major change to the tournament, no longer was there an opportunity for the best runner up to progress to the semi final, the decision was taken to that the final would consist of a 3 team play off. This meant you had to win all the pool games. We started against QMC and although winning the game, we were not at our best. The 2nd game against Itchen College again started poorly with Worthing 9-4 down at half time. The team pulled it together at half time and scored the next 6 goals taking a 10-9 lead, the game then went goal for goal and ended 17-17. Itchen had lost to Barton Peveril, the pool favourite, so all was not lost – a win against Barton would see us through. The game against Barton started well with Worthing taking an early lead which they held onto with the half time score 7-6 Worthing. Worthing pushed on but unfortunately crucial shots were missed and Barton took the lead with 9 mins to go and never looked back beating Worthing 16 -12. Good effort but not quite good enough. We never achieved the standard of play seen at Brighton College the week before.

2nd Team V Sussex Downs Lewes County Cup

Wednesday saw the 2nd team squad take on the 2nd team from Sussex Downs Lewes in the cup. The girls started slowly and were 2 down after 8 mins, however we started to play some good netball and went in 8 -5 up at quarter time. The girls really performed in the 2nd quarter with some great play from Lara at WA and shooting from Louisa and Abi, whilst everyone on the court defended and the end of 2nd quarter was 16 -6 lead to Worthing. Changes were made at half time with Sophi coming on at GK and Ellie at GS, it took a while to settle the players in and we leaked a few goals but the general play was good and the quarter ended 22-11. Sadly just into the 4th quarter Lara turned her ankle and had to be taken to hospital ( bad ligament damage). The side readjusted and ended the game 26-15 to set up a tie against Hurstpierpoint A team in the quarter final.
Thanks to Emily, Mele, Mele, Sarah and Jodie who came out to support the 2nd team and help Lara.

Tina