SPORT Rugby 7s Success

It has been a busyterm so far for the U11 7s squad. The season startedwiththe Durham 7s at thestart of February, in whichweentered twosquads. We playedsomefantastic rugby and bothsides ended up inthe top group, alongwith Sedbergh. Unfortunately, our Ateamwerenot at theirbest against Sedbergh andwereunableto raisetheirgame. The B team battled reallywell, losing narrowly but thenwent on the beat a demoralised Ateamin their finalgame!

Afterthat disappointment, theA teamcame backstrongly in the Terrington7s tournament on2nd February. Theboys were fantastic and clearly learned from their mistakes at Durham, bouncing back to defeat Sedbergh convincingly inthe final gamein ordertowinthetournament outright.

Next up, onTuesday 7th March, the HMC 7s took place at St Peter’s. Again, both ourA and Bteams entered thetournament andwe were delightedto seeso muchgreat rugby being played. Our Bteamperformed admirably as the only Bteamin the competition and did not lookout of place, picking up a couple ofwins bythe end ofthe tournament. Our As cruised throughthegroup stages, beating Barlborough Hall, Bronte House and Barnard Castle. This meant we topped the group to play St Peter’s andthe QEGS. Aftergoing a try downv St Peter’s, the boys reacted fantastically and came throughto play QEGS in awinner takes all final. Theintensity from both teams was immense, and our physicalityshonethrough as we took a 3-1 lead. However, QEGSbrought it back to 3-3 and it looked likewe might fold underpressure. But, withthe Durham 7s lessonstill fresh inthe memory, theboys kept their cool and came through as 5-3winners, lifting the HMC 7s trophy, their fourth trophy of the year! A hugewell doneto all the boys involved.

Our U11 Rugby 7s teambacked up the Hymers7s and HMC 7s tournament wins bywinning theAshville 7s competition.They havebeen playing some phenomenal rugbythis season andthis trophy comes after top performances against Hymers 7s finalists Ashville, Aysgarth anda number of big club sides around Yorkshire. This makes it 6 tournament wins this year. It wasgreat tosee the boys play sowell and in thespirit of the game.

Rosslyn Park National Rugby 7s

For the first time in history, we entered an U11 side into the Rosslyn Park National Rugby 7s tournament, which is the biggest schools’ rugby tournament in the world, attracting most of the big rugby schools nationally. We entered our U11s into the top tier of this tournament on the back of being a dominant force in the north of England all year. This proved to be the right decision, as we went undefeated right up until the final game against St Paul’s, who have one of the most established rugby backgrounds in England. The boys fought hard, but with a couple of players down, we were not quite able to get over the line in the last game. Nonetheless, we can be incredibly proud to be the 2nd place side at a national tournament and it bodes extremely well for this set of players as they move into senior school. Congratulations to each and every one of the boys who have participated this season and thank you to the fantastic support we have had from the side-line.

Fencing

On Sunday 5th Feb a number of Hymersfencers competed inthe Northern Youth ChallengeTournament which took place at Wetherby HighSchool. The final results of our fencerswere -

Under 10 Girls’Foil

Quinn– 3rd

Florence – 6th

Under 12 Girls’Foil

Gulmehr– 3rd

Everyone fenced reallywell in avery large and challenging tournament andhad a veryenjoyable day.

On Sunday 19th Marchthe YorkshireYouth Championships tookplace at Wetherby High School. Zach competed in the Under 10 Boys Foil finishing 3rd. This was Zach’s first competition so a good result and a great learning experience.