Rounders

Rachael Ogden

After going to print last year, Rachael, having won the York & District Championships at 800 metres, went on to win the North Yorkshire Championships and once again the English Schools' Championships at Telford. She was selected to represent England again but was unfortunately on holiday! In 1995 Rachael got off to a wonderful start by beating GB international Paula Fryer to win the Yorkshire Senior Womens' 800 metres. She went on to win the Northern Counties by five seconds and was selected to represent the GB Under 20's team at a full international at Loughborough on 11th June. Here she came fourth with a personal best time only a second behind the winner.

Well done Rachael! We all look forward to seeing your name in print in the future!

Sports Day

Again a good turnout from all the Houses and it was pleasing to see girls prepared to 'have a go' at events sometimes quite alien to them! Waterproofs and wellies were the order of the day by the end, but there was plenty of good humour and encouragement and the girls turned out some very good performances.

Sports Day Winners:

Field Events Senior Javelin Senior High Jump Junior Shot Junior Long Jump Junior Discus Senior Discus Senior Long Jump Senior Shot Junior Javelin Junior High Jump

Track Events Junior 800m Senior 800m Junior 100m Senior 100m Junior 400m Senior 400m Junior 200m Senior 200m Junior 1500m Senior 1500m D. Powley P. Bennett Z. Wight C. Brisby H. Oram E. Fitton R. Ogden C. Lawson T. Rotowa K. De Boer

K. Hoggard R. Ogden R. Metcalfe O. Anderson A. Heley R. Ogden K. De Boer H. Curry K. Hoggard D. Powley Junior 4 x 100 Relay Clifton Senior 4 x 100 RelayClifton * = New Records (D) (S) (C) (C) (Q) (T) (C) (D) (D) (Q)

(T) (C) (G) (D) (D) (C) (Q) (D) (T) (D) 25.92m* 1.25m* 7.57m 4.18m 18.39m 19.63m 4.20m 7.88m 21.24m* 1.30m

2m 40.5sec* 2m 30.3sec* 14.8sec 14.5sec lm 15.6sec lm 8sec 31.4sec 30.1 sec* 5m 43.8sec 6m 27.2sec 59.4sec* 59.0sec*

Note: Junior = 3rd and 4th years Senior = 5th and 6th years

The Victor Ludorum was awarded to Rachael Ogden. P. Fletcher

The Under 16's started the season with a friendly game at Queen Mary's with a 4-1 Vi win, a scoreline suggesting the leisurely way in which it was played on a hot afternoon! The Under 15's played six games during the term starting with three excellent wins against Pocklington, Giggleswick and Hymers. Becky Fisher batted consistently well, showing power and good placement of shots. They lost to Woodhouse Grove who proved to be too good for us when batting, finding weaknesses in our fielding. The best game of the season was undoubtedly against Joseph Rowntree. Despite their very speedy bowling, we countered with good hitting (especially Tomi Rotowa and Preeti Bhat) and accurate fielding from the whole team to finish just half a rounder down — a result which could have gone either way. The team has played well this year and have strength in depth. With tennis teams sometimes taking players out, sixteen girls in all have had a chance to play for the team and all have acquitted themselves well.

The Under 14's were an enthusiastic side oftsn to be seen hitting a ball round at breaktimes — when not playing football, that is! Despite this the results were disappointing — often their hits being not quite hard enough ror their throws quite accurate enough. After losing to both Queen Mary's and Pocklington they tightened things up considerably to win against Woodhouse Grove. Charlotte Brisby and Sara Chapman were hitting extremely well in this match as they did throughout the term. With the tennis players out they found Queen Margaret's too strong, but nevertheless played well. Unfortunately the team found their best form rather too late in the season — in their last match! They played some excellent rounders against Joseph Rowntree with the whole team batting well and good fielding especially Rebecca Fishley fielding to Charlotte Brisby at first post for some quick stumpings. Mention must be made of Charlotte Mee who improved with every game she played. There has been some good individual play in their games and I am sure their enthusiasm will reap rewards next year.

All the matches, whether won or lost, have been played in a good spirit and it has been a pleasure tc umpire the teams.

P. Fletcher

HOUSE ROUNDERS

Due to the smaller numbers of girls in each House now that there are seven Houses, we had a seven (instead of nine)-a-side rounders competition. As it turned out this made for livelier rounders with all fielders needing to be on their toes! It was a very enjoyable afternoon with Clifton beating Dronfield ten rounders to nine in ihe final — excellent batting from both teams. The final positions were:

1st 2nd 3rd = 3rd = Clifton Dronfield Grove The Rise 5th = 5th = 5th = Queen's Temple School