Stoolball News Archive

July 2011 - Saints Above

All Saints take the Horsham Primary Schools Festival of Stoolball Title

Report by John/Kay Price

A non-stop programme of Stoolball took place at Horsham Cricket Club on Wednesday last when Stoolball England ran their third annual festival for Horsham primary schools.

Playing on five pitches, 10 teams from six schools demonstrated just how much the pupils had learned from the Stoolball England coaches Becky Hull and Ruth Arthur during their weekly coaching sessions in the summer term.

With teams of 8 consisting of boys and girls, play got under way at 10am.  Each team batted in pairs for a period of two overs, and these batsmen were replaced by another two until all 8 team members had batted.  If a batsman was given out during the two over session then they merely changed ends, five runs were deducted from the team score, and the pair continued batting.  There were some very close matches during the morning’s group games, but sensible batting supported by accurate bowling and confident and capable fielding eventually saw Slinfold “A” team and All Saints through to the final play off. 

Here All Saints proved too strong for the Slinfold bowlers and showed that they were worthy winners on the day.  The trophies were presented to the winners and runners’ schools by Becky Hull and Ruth Arthur and certificates were presented to all participants.    

RESULTS 

ROUND ONE:

ST MARY’S                               250       WARNHAM “B”              209

SHELLEY                                 267       SLINFOLD “A”               281

SOUTHWATER “A”                    262       WARNHAM “A”              260

SLINFOLD “B”                           192       ALL SAINTS                  333

SOUTHWATER “B”                    267       SLINFOLD “C”               232

ROUND TWO:

WARNHAM “B”                          276       SLINFOLD “C”               220

SOUTHWATER “B”                    222       SLINFOLD “A”               254

ST. MARY’S                              234       SOUTHWATER “A”        300

WARNHAM “A”                          183       ALL SAINTS                  273

SHELLEY                                 256       SLINFOLD “B”               254

ROUND THREE

ST. MARY’S                              277       SOUTHWATER “B”        268

WARNHAM “A”                          255       SHELLEY                     226

SLINFOLD “B”                           225       SOUTHWATER “A”        225

SLINFOLD “A”                           267       WARNHAM “B”              205

ALL SAINTS                              307       SLINFOLD “C”               172

ROUND FOUR

SLINFOLD “A”                           320       ST. MARY’S                  242

SOUTHWATER “A”                    277       WARNHAM “B”              142

SLINFOLD “B”                           223       SOUTHWATER “B”        219

WARNHAM “A”                          325       SLINFOLD “C”               192

ALL SAINTS                              314       SHELLEY                     193

FINAL ROUND

ALL SAINTS                              331       SLINFOLD “A”               241

SOUTHWATER “A”                    334       WARNHAM “A”              243

SOUTHWATER “B”                    296       ST. MARY’S                  282

SHELLEY                                 245       WARNHAM “B”              210

SLINFOLD “B”                           251       SLINFOLD “C”               240

FINAL POSITIONS:

WINNERS:                          ALL SAINTS

RUNNERS-UP:                  SLINFOLD “A”

THIRD PLACE:              WARNHAM “A”

FOURTH PLACE:           SOUTHWATER “A”

FIFTH PLACE:               SOUTHWATER “B”

SIXTH PLACE:               ST. MARY’S

SEVENTH PLACE:            SHELLEY

EIGHTH PLACE:             WARNHAM “B”

NINTH PLACE:               SLINFOLD “B”

TENTH PLACE:               SLINFOLD “C”

Stoolball England 15.7.2011