Hockey

Hockey

Lent Term 2008

Annual Sports Personality Awards: 17 March 2008

Congratulations to Emily James who was the winner in the Junior Sports Personality U18 category and to Ben Wigmore who came third in the U14 category and captained this year's winning team.

The Brecknockshire and Radnorshire District Sports Council Annual Sports Personality Awards (for achievements in 2007) took place at Theatr Brycheiniog Brecon and was organised by Powys County Council’s Development Unit.

Sports Development Officer, Helen Davies commented – “It is wonderful to see how much sporting talent there is out there, Powys should be proud that it has such talented individuals. The panel had a very difficult time in deciding the winners and the runners up, as the standard was the highest to date.” Local sporting achievements were celebrated with 58 nominations received for awards.

Emily is currently in the Welsh U18 Hockey squad preparing for the Home Nations at Cardiff in July 2008. The tournament will take place at Welsh Institute of sport over 4 days, playing England, Ireland and Scotland. Emily has also been called up to train with the Welsh U21 squad this season.

Ben who won the U14 category in 2006 was selected for third place as an all rounder. He has represented Powys in rugby, football, swimming and running but has achieved greater success to date in hockey playing regularly for South Wales and was selected for the Welsh U13 squad.

Congratulations to the U16 Boys Hockey XI who came second in the U16 South Wales Boys Tournament, held on Wednesday 23 January at Brecon Leisure Centre.

Christ College won their first match against Dyffryn Taf 4-0, but lost the next match 4-0 to a very strong Olchfa side, containing several Welsh Internationals. Christ College bounced back, beating Brecon High School 6-1 to round off and excellent day. Kieran Marmion and Will Burton scored all of Christ College’s goals between them.

The strength in depth of Hockey at Christ College was demonstrated with excellent performances from Tom Trumper and Andrew Shough (Form 3) played excellently.

Hockey Coach, Steven Adams, also singled out Ben Whigmore (Form 1) who played superbly even though he was half the size of some of the players there.

Christ College is now well placed to go through to the Welsh Schoolboys Hockey Finals to be held in Swansea in April 2008.

GAMES PLAYED

Date

Opponents

1^st

2^nd

U16

U15

U14

U13
U12

14/1/08 Welshpool H S (Girls) L 3-5 on penalties
after 2-2 Draw

16/1/08 Hereford C S D 2-2

30/1/08 RGS Worcester D 2-2

Michaelmas Term 2007

Powys County Tournaments Results

Date	Team	Result
16/10/07	U16	Runners-up
14/11/07	U18	Winners

Runners up of U18 South Wales Schools Hockey Cup Competition 2007

Congratulations to U18 Boys Hockey team who provided the highlight of the boys’ season with a first ever appearance in the South Wales Schools Cup on 26 April 2007, emerging as runners-up.

Special thanks go to the two captains, Nick Clarke and Owain Jones, who have galvanised the team this year.

The event took place at King George V Fields in Swansea. An early 1-1 draw against Pembrokeshire champions Dyffryn Taf was followed by a 0-2 defeat at the hands of eventual competition winners Whitchurch. The CCB team went on to win against Stanwell 3-0: Ben John, scorer of two of those goals, was declared (by his fellow team members) “man of the match”, but coach Steven Adams praised the whole squad for their admirable performance and sportsmanship – the organisers, he reported, had thanked them for bringing such a high standard of hockey to the competition.

Michaelmas Term 2006

GAMES PLAYED: GIRLS
Date	Opponents	1^st	2^nd	U16	U15	U14	U13
13/9/06	Brecon H S	W 1-0	-	-	W 6-0	-	-
23/9/06	Bedstone	W 3-0	-	-	-	-	-
24/9/06	Old Breconians	L 2 -3	-	-	-	-	-
7/10/06	King's Gloucester	L 2-1	-	-	-	-	-
11/10/06	Brecon Ladies	L 3-0	-	-	-	-	-
14/10/06	Llandovery	W 4-2	-	-	-	-	-
18/10/06	Hereford Cathedral S	D 1-1	-	-	-	-	-

Christ College were placed 2nd in this tournament. The scores were as follows:

TEAM	SCORE
Coleg Powys	L 1-0
Gwernyfed	W 2-0
Llandrindod Wells	W 2-1
Brecon H S	W 1-0

Summer Tour 2006 Results

The first long haul Netball and Hockey tour to Barbados was undertaken in July. For more information on the tour click here. The results for the three Hockey games played are below:

Date	CCB Team	Opposition	Result
5/7/06	1^st XI Tour Team	Springer Memorial High School	W 3-1
6/7/06	1^st XI Tour Team	Combermere H C	W 5-0
7/7/06	1st XI Tour Team	Empire H C	W 3-1

Lent Term 2006

GAMES PLAYED
Date	Opponents	1^st	2^nd	U16	U15	U14	U13
18/1/06	Hereford C S	D 1-1	-	-	-	-	-
18/1/06	Crickhowell H S	-	-	-	D1-1	-	-
25/1/06	Hereford C S	W1-0	-	-	-	-	-
5/2/06	Old Breconians	L2-5	-	-	-	-	-
22/2/06	Malvern College	L3-1	-	-	-	-	-
25/2/06	Wycliffe	L1-6	-	-	-	-	-
8/3/06	Crickhowell H S	Mixed Seniors W4-0	-	-	-	-	-
11/3/06	Hereford C S	-	-	-	L2-4	-	-
14/3/06	Crickhowell H S	W5-0	-	-	-	-	-

U13 Boys Tournament at Leominster on Wednesday 8 March 06

U13 boys played against The Elms, Colwall and St Richard's, Bredenbury A and B teams in this tournament. CCB lost matches with scores of 0-7, 1-5 and 2-5 respectively. However there was some great goal-saving tackles made by Lewis Mallon, Rhodri Wooltortpn and Jesse Ashby and goals were scored by Tom Trumper, Rollo Mason-Watts and Luke James. Ryan Vaughan showed good potential after a busy day in goal and there were good spells of attacking by Rollo Mason-Watts, Luke James Joshua Lewis, Tom Trumper and the man of the match, Robbie Quest.

Kate Davies

Representative Honours in Girls Hockey

Having represented South Powys at Under 19 Level during the Michaelmas Term, Kate Davies, Sarah Greaney and Alex Lines-Scrase were invited to attend trials for South Wales in December.

As a result of Kate Davies' performances at these trials and at two subsequent training sessions during the Christmas break, Kate was selected to play for South Wales in an Under 19 triangular tournament, competing against teams from North and South East Wales.

South Wales finished second in the tournament and Kate was invited to pass her contact details to the Welsh Schools selectors who will be inviting her to attend Under 19 Welsh Schools Trials in the near future.

Kate scored one double and six single hat tricks in 1^st XI matches played during the Michaelmas Term and consistently works hard to develop her fitness and skills. Kate is a great role-model for the junior players at Christ College who she helps to coach.

Our congratulations go to Kate, Sarah and Alex on their achievements and we wish Kate the best of luck for the Welsh Schools Trial.