Autumn Term 2 Sports Report

Football

The Year 9 football team have made school history, reaching the ESFA National Small Schools Cup Final after a thrilling semi-final win against Durham County College at Cairns Crescent. Mr Sabri is extremely proud of his players, the game was 3-3 AET before Jake Dean saved two penalty kicks and Blacon went onto win 4-2 on penalties. In the last 32 of the competition, Blacon beat De Le Salle 9-1, Sephton 5-2 in the quarter final and after beating Durham, the team now have a National Small Schools Cup Final to look forward to in the New Year.

The Year 8 football team lost to Upton in a friendly before losing to Tarporley in the Cheshire Cup second round. They did finish 2013 on a real positive, beat UCEA 4-0 in Ellesmere Port with Robbie Davies scoring all four goals in the second half with a fantastic team performance. Year 10 were unfortunate in their game against UCEA, leading 2-0 after goals from Billy Fennell and Tom Dalton they went onto lose 5-2 in an entertaining game. The Year 7 football team continue to show real promise, drawing 4-4 with Upton, a Kingsley Rodric, Louis Harrison, Daniel Whitfield and Joe Thompson screamer. They did lose to Ridgeway High in a competitive friendly game with Bradley Broadbent and Joe Thompson scoring quality goals. Year 9 team beat Upton 4-3 in a friendly with Archie Tushingham and Kieran Ball scoring important goals.

The Under 16 girl’s football team lost 4-1 in the Cheshire Cup away against Whitby High School in an end to end cup tie. Kirsty Tushingham scored our goal with Georgia Owen and Chelsea Hallal playing well in attack. Miss Flynn was impressed with how well the girls played and how they kept trying to the very end.

The Year 9 and Year 10 boys 7 a side football teams played their Chester and District 7 a side tournaments at Upton High School. The Year 9 team somehow failed to breach the group stages after impressive wins against Bishops and Kings, a good draw against Catholic High; it was the narrow defeat against Tarporley that resulted in them missing out by 1 point. The Year 10 team were without four key players due to injury but led by skipper Trey Lattie they managed to beat Bishops 2-1, Abbeygate 2-0 and Tarporley 1-0 to reach the semi final.  Kings were our opponents and Trey Lattie scored the important goal to face rivals Upton High School in the final. After a 0-0 draw with Tom Dalton and Billy Fennell having chances to score, we went on to lose 3-2 on penalties with James Lloyd hitting the post with his spot kick. A difficult way to lose a final but Mr Cairns was very happy with how the team worked hard for each other and played some decent football. The Year 7 had an indoor 5 a side tournament at Catholic High School and lost close games to Bishops Heber, Queens Park and Catholic High. The best performance was against winners Kings who we drew 2-2 with conceding an equaliser in the last minute against a talented team.

The boys football b team tournaments at Blacon High have been successful, giving lads an opportunity to represent the school and they were well attended by Chester Schools. The Year 10 b team lost close games to Christleton and Kings, drew 0-0 with Upton and beat Queens Park 2-0 with Matt Feenan and Tom Smith having a good tournament. The Year 8 b team lost close games to Christleton and Kings but drew 1-1 with Queens Park and Ethan Parker and Dylan Wells had an impressive tournament. The Year 9 b team won their tournament overall with impressive wins against Christleton and Kings and a draw against Upton.  Led by captain Jordan Welsh, Lewis Faulder and Ryan Graves were the stand out performers. The Year 9 b team had another friendly against Ridgeway High and lost 7-4 in an entertaining game with Daniel Rodaway and Joe Howard playing their part in an 11 goal thriller.

The following players have been stand out players for their respective teams:

Year 7 – Joe Thompson, Daniel Whitfield,

Year 8 – Marcel Aziamale, Robbie Davies

Year 9 – Brandon Burrows, Kieran Ball, Jake Dean and Calyn Barlow

Year 10 – Trey Lattie, Billy Fennell and Warren Millington

Year 11 - Georgia Lea Challinor

Basketball

The year 10/11 Boys Basketball team played 5 matches this term, winning two and losing three games. Against Bishops High School in our first game, we were unlucky to lose 22-20 but played some good attacking basketball to beat Kings School 33-18. Trey Lattie and Aaron Aldom were our main point scorers in these 2 games. We beat Catholic High School 33-14 which was our best team performance, Christoph Aziamale and Ryan Mackay having great games and Luke Bridges scoring some quality lay ups. We lost our final games against Queens Park and against a very strong Upton team with Joe Jones and Jack Harris impressive in those games.

Badminton 

The boys Under 14 team – Jake Dean, Brandon Burrows, Layton Ashford and Calyn Barlow came 3^rd in the doubles badminton tournament at Blacon High School. Jake and Layton were our 1 + 2 seeds and Brandon and Layton were our 3 + 4 seeds. Blacon convincingly beat Abbeygate, Queens Park and Upton in both doubles matches. We managed to score points in our defeats to Bishops Heber, Christleton and Kings which helped as from adding up all points scored, we finished third overall.

The boys Under 16 team – Warren Millington, Trey Lattie, James Lloyd, Matt Feenan, Ryan Mackay and Christoph Aziamale came 3^rd in the doubles badminton tournament at Blacon High School. We beat Bishops Heber in the semi final in doubles after losing close games to Christleton and Upton.

Netball

The girl’s Year 7 and 8 played competitive friendly matches against Bishops Heber and Tarporley. The girls played some decent netball, the Year 8 team beat Heber 8-6 and have continued to work hard in clubs with Mrs Wright and Miss Flynn to improve their skills. All the Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 teams are looking forward to Chester and District Netball tournaments in the New Year.

The following players have been stand out players for their respective teams:

Year 7 – Megan Wainwright and Hannah Sconce

Year 8 – Alisha Heap and Hollie Burrows

Volleyball

The Year 10 girls Volleyball team played a friendly match against Kings School with both schools having two teams. There was some excellent 3 touch volleyball being played by all teams and Kayleigh Spencer, Skyla Spencer and Claire Jones were our stand out performers.

Extra Curricular Clubs for girls have been well attended on a Tuesday delivered by Hannah Dean who has delivered football and volleyball sessions to groups of Year 8, 9 and 10 girls.

Within the BEV PE, Mr Forbes and Mrs Carr have delivered high quality PE lessons to local BEV primary schools and we hosted the Year 5 and Year 6 Basketball competition which was enjoyed by all schools and won by St Theresa’s.