Stopfordian 2010â2011 - Stockport Grammar School
Stopfordian 2010â2011 - Stockport Grammar School
Stopfordian 2010â2011 - Stockport Grammar School
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The <strong>Stopfordian</strong> 2010–2011<br />
We then competed in the <strong>Stockport</strong> <strong>School</strong>s’ tournament, in<br />
which we had been runners up to Cheadle Hulme the<br />
previous season. The tournament was held at Preistnall<br />
<strong>School</strong> and the pitches were half the size of our half sized<br />
pitches! We got through to the semis, but sadly did not play<br />
to our ability and lost out to Wilmslow.<br />
The team would like to say a massive thank-you to Mrs Jones<br />
and Miss Withington for organising games, practices and such<br />
a good year of hockey!<br />
Ellen McPherson (2Q)<br />
UNDER 12 HOCKEY<br />
The U12 hockey team have had a fantastic season. We<br />
have fielded very strong teams for all our matches, resulting<br />
in us conceding very few goals and winning all our<br />
matches comfortably.<br />
We took part in a tournament at Cheadle Hulme <strong>School</strong><br />
during the season. We scored many goals in each game<br />
thanks to our attackers and mid-fields and remarkably did not<br />
concede a single goal due to the skills of our amazing goalie<br />
and defenders.<br />
As well as the matches, training sessions have taken place at<br />
lunchtime and after school. The squad has improved a great<br />
deal this year and so hopefully we will be able to continue our<br />
run of being undefeated next year.<br />
Francesca Bailey, Evie Barlow, Jessica Carroll, Georgina Dare,<br />
Lauren Hunt, Sarah Stretton and Lily Wolstenholme have also<br />
been selected to represent the Greater Manchester JAC U12<br />
and U13 hockey teams.<br />
Overall it was an extremely successful hockey season for our<br />
U12 team. Thank you to Miss Withington and Mrs Jones for<br />
taking us to matches and holding practices. Also thank you<br />
Nigel Stanhope and Amanda for coaching us at Wednesday<br />
night training.<br />
We look forward to playing 11 a side matches next season and<br />
getting back to training again!<br />
Francesca Bailey (1Q)<br />
1ST XV RUGBY<br />
The first match of the year was against the Old <strong>Stopfordian</strong>s<br />
XV. This highly anticipated match saw us put in a good<br />
performance showing glimpses of talent but we couldn’t hold<br />
off a passionate and aggressive Old Boys’ team. With this<br />
defeat behind us we focused on our first competitive game<br />
against Cheadle Hulme. A lazy performance resulted in a 20-<br />
17 loss against our closest rivals. A very disappointing result<br />
needed a good response. Two high scoring wins against<br />
Newcastle 30-7 and Fallibroome 55-5 were exactly what we<br />
needed with Eddie Ardern showing how effective he is in the<br />
broken up play. Next up was MGS and our inconsistency<br />
returned which resulted in a disappointing result. Again this<br />
put us under pressure to come up with a response when we<br />
faced Wirral away which could have potentially been a very<br />
tough fixture but a good performance saw us win 30-5.<br />
Beating Sandbach, the Daily Mail Vase winners, in our next<br />
match capped off another good performance. However<br />
losing our vice-captain to a long term leg injury was a big blow<br />
to the team. We ended the half term with a trip to St Ambrose<br />
and a quality first half display saw us take a good lead into half<br />
time, but defensive errors saw the lead slip away from us and<br />
we lost the game 23-32.<br />
Sport 77
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