Sports National CHHS to battle Louise Garland in Inter-High Basketball final

Seasoned champions Clement Howell High School (CHHS) will go head-to-head against the hungry A. Louise Garland Thomas High School in the final of the Inter-High School Basketball Championships next Saturday at the Gustavus Lightbourne Sports Complex court. In their semi-final clashes last weekend both teams claimed comfortable wins.

CHHS defeated the HJ Robinson High School 72-64, while Louis

Garland got the better of Alpha Christian Academy 66-56. The two defeated teams will also battle in the third-place clash next weekend.

Reaston-Brown aids RHS championship drive at British U19 National

Top female sailors from The Royal Hospital School (RHS) including TCI sailor Grace Coleman ReastonBrown, who sails for TCI and is a member of The Provo Sailing Academy, travelled to Rutland Sailing Club this month for the Women’s Team Racing National Championships to compete over two days and they were competitive.

The team of six battled hard through high winds of 20-30 knots on day one.

They started strong, winning the first race against the Warwick Mermaids, a team from the University of Warwick.

In the qualifying round robin, they went up against some tough competition from teams from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, West Kirby Sailing

Club, Rutland Sailing Club, Scotland and Ireland.

Although it was a very tough and close competition the team registered victories against teams from the University of Manchester, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Bath and achieved a success rate of 40%.

These results gained them a place in the silver league, in which their team won five out of five races. At the end of this series, they competed for the trophy against the best-placed under-19s team in a best-of-three battle.

For the title of U19 Women’s National Champions, RHS raced Rutland Hydra, and won 2-0, winning the trophy and ending the weekend with a perfect second day – seven wins out of seven races.