Monday 21 May 2012

House Athletics and Cricket

Last Friday saw the opening afternoon of the Inter House Athletics competition. It was good to see almost the whole House out there competing.
Anthony Miarli and Sam Coleman were again our fliers, with blistering pace in the 100 and 200m. Y9 did themselves proud, Ben Chambers in particular running in all three events despite a pulled muscle.

The Senior House match against Welsh got off to a difficult start, with only 9 players available to begin with. But a couple of hasty late substitutions meant although we lost we did pull off a fine fielding display to make them fight hard to reach the runs needed. Zachy Mettawa conscripted from rowing, along with other non regular cricketers Alex Turton, Chris Kerrigan all played their parts well. Ben Francis, Luke Maguire, Louis Tindall, Henry Corke, Henry Breckenridge, Teddy Hewins Cameron Dempster and Alex Sanderson never gave up and I was proud to see them handle a difficult match and eventual defeat so sportingly.