In this week's Sports Report, we catch up on fixtures that took place before and over the half-term break. In cricket, there were block fixtures against The Oratory School while our girls played their second hardball cricket match of the season. Meanwhile, our Lower School boys took part in an inter-school tennis tournament. Our senior rowers returned to Dorney Lake for the Met Regatta over the weekend and, in equestrianism, one of our own took part at the Schools' Equestrian Games.
Cricket
Girls' 1st XI vs Cokethorpe School
On Wednesday 24 May, the Shiplake girls played their second hardball cricket match against Cokethorpe School, playing 6 balls per over in a 12 over match. Feeling more confident after additional practice, the Shiplake girls fielded first with excellent bowling from F Lenthall and E Morris who both took wickets. Fielding was great all round and we took 5 wickets with Cokethorpe only scoring 230 runs in total.
Shiplake then batted with some strong hits from I Wood and G Weedon. After great batting from the girls, Shiplake won by 8 runs with a final score of 238 runs to Cokethorpe’s 230.
P Sanderson was awarded Batter of the Match, who also made a catch while fielding. Congratulations to A Botterill who was awarded Fielder of the Match for her exceptional opening and closing bowling.
Report: P Sanderson, Girls' Cricket Captain
Coach: Mrs C Lovelock
Boys' 1st XI vs The Oratory School
Final result: defeat by 82 runs..
Boys' U15A vs The Oratory School
Final result: defeat by 5 runs.
Boys' U15B vs The Oratory School
Final result: defeat by 10 wickets.
Boys' U14A vs The Oratory School
Final result: defeat by 8 wickets.
Equestrianism - Schools' Equestrian Games
On Sunday 28 May, I competed at the Schools’ Equestrian Games (SEG) 80cm event at Lybrook Farm, Broadway. I scored a dressage score of 33.7 and had a clear show-jumping round. I received a 20-point penalty in the cross-country round in addition to 12 time fault penalty points. I am pleased with how the day went and I am excited for my next SEG event, which takes place on Saturday 10 June at Elmwood Equestrian.
Report: Jack Dag
Rowing - Met Regatta
Some of our senior rowers raced at the Met Regatta on Sunday 4 June at Dorney Lake. This event was great to get the rowers refocused on racing, after being away for the half-term break.
In the morning division:
- Girls’ 1st quad raced in the open women's event and finished 4th in the A final
- Girls’ 2nd quad finished 6th in the A final
- Girls’ 3rd quad finished 5th in the B final
- Boys’ coxed four finished 8th in the B final
- Boys’ coxless four finished 8th in the A final
In the afternoon division:
- Girls’ coxed four finished 4th in the A final
- Girls’ A double finished 6th in the A final
- Girls’ B double finished 7th in the A final
- The boys raced in four pairs, and all made the A final finishing 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th
Tennis - Lower School Inter-School Tournament
On a gloriously sunny day, Lower School took our top four tennis players, S Lee, A Massie, W Hunt and L Waldegrave, to compete against Pangbourne, The Oratory, Crosfields School and Leighton Park in a singles tennis tournament.
All of the boys played against very strong opposition, which made for exciting matches and very close games all round. A special mention must go to L Waldegrave who came 2nd in his group after winning three of his four matches. After all the results were in, we finished 4th place overall.
Coach: Mr A Gingell
