Rounders

2010 Season

It that time of year again!

To enter leagues please complete the entry form in the Entry Form Section above and send it electronically to myself by Friday 12th March-entries received after this date will not be accepted.

In addition to the electronic entry forms, please complete a hard copy of the Head Teacher's signature form available to download from the Entry Form Section.  Entries will not be accepted without this form. This form should be sent to Kate Grapes by Friday 12th March also.

May I take this opportunity to make a small plea? Last year 14 teams withdrew from leagues across the age groups resulting in some teams getting through to the finals without having played any games. Please, if you are in doubt about the likelihood of having a team in an age group then please do not enter the league and arrange friendly games instead-this can be done at the fixtures meeting.

Finally, the date for the AGM and fixtures meeting is Thursday 18th March at Abbeydale Grange School, 4pm start. Leagues will start after the Easter Holidays. All schools entering leagues are required to send a representative. Please confirm your school's attendance at the meeting.

If you have any questions in the mean time, please do not hesitate to contact me and I hope you all have good season!

Many thanks

Kate Grapes

SHEFFIELD SCHOOLS MIXED LEAGUES 2008-09 

In the U12 Mixed League, Handsworth Grange were crowned champions with Tapton as runners-up.

In the U14 Mixed League, Abbeydale Grange finished in first place with Tapton again as runners-up.

In the U16 Mixed League, Westfield won the league with Abbeydale Grange as runners-up.

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The National U16 girls Rounders finals were in Corby on 4 July. Abbeydale Grange School (ten students, 5 from Y10 and 5 from Y11) represented South Yorkshire having come runners up at the county round. Winners of the county round, Aston 9Rotherham) were also there.

Abbeydale played 3 pool matches; lost the first against Bosworth 6.5-7, drew the 2nd against Aston 5-5 and won the last 8-4. We qualified for quarter finals as highest scoring runner up out of all the pools and went on the play and beat Nottingham 9-4. We then met Aston (again!?!?!?) in the semis and lost by 2 rounders.

Nashiba Khan, Natasha Hawkins and Amy Webster stood out when batting with Nashiba winning the prize for highest scoring individual player in the morning and then in the afternoon as well. Fielding was stronger than batting with again, Amy Webster and Nashiba Khan working extremely well together on and around 2nd base to stop scoring. Halima Khan played a consistently good back stop, Nuria Real bowled well and Sian Rowney took some astounding catches.

The girls completed the day with a presentation from the Mayor of Corby and plenty of Michael Jackson requests (for Meena) were played by Corby radio station who turned up to cover the event.

CLICK HERE for a picture of the Abbeydale Grange team.

Ms Grapes