Last night a squad of 20 Year 6 pupils travelled down to Hillsborough college for the first round of the Sheffield Schools Basketball Tournament.
Mrs G sorted us into an A team and a B Team, each competing in separate groups. We competed against Oughtibridge, Deepcar, Nook Lane Bradfield Dungworth and Wharncliffe Side.
The A Team lost their first two games however came out fighting in the third game against local rivals Deepcar. The A Team stretched their lead to 10-2 but some clumsy defending caused the game to finish at 10-10.
Our only training session obviously paid off as the A Team smashed Nook Lane 12-2.
The B Team won 2 games, drew 1 and lost 1, therefore finishing in 2nd place (joint with Deepcar B). In any normal competition this would mean that as Runners up, the B team would go through to the semi final however, one of the rules of the competition means that a B Team cannot go through so Bradfield Dungworth school went through even though they hadn’t even won a single game!
It was a very exciting event even though we didn’t go through to the next round.
Alice & Olivia
PS Congratulations to Mollie who was talent spotted by one of the Activity Sheffield sports coaches and invited to the Basketball academy!!!
