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ATHLETICS
KENT CHAMPION AND NOW NATIONAL CHAMPION
She was also second in the 200m. Well done! On Wednesday 18 June Amara together with Ellie, Hannah and Bethany travelled to Birmingham for the ISA National Championships held at the Alexander Stadium. Amara won both the 100m and the 200m races in the intermediate age group to become a double National Champion. A tremendous achievement - well done! Ellie came fifth in the hurdles final and sixth in the long jump, Hannah came sixth in the 1500m. Bethany came fourth in the long jump in the Pre-Junior age group.
ISA AREA CHAMPIONSHIPS
The ISA London South Area Senior Athletics Championships were held at Norman Park running track on Friday 2 May for Year 7-10. Baston fielded a large team and there were some very good displays of running, jumping and throwing from all participants. The girls who came first in their events will go to Birmingham for the National Championships at Alexander Stadium on Wed 18 June. Congratulations to Amara (Year 9) for winning the 100 and 200metres, Hannah (Year 9) for winning the 1500metres, Ellie for winning the 75metres hurdles and Long Jump and Lydia for winning the 1500metres in their respective age groups. Good luck in Birmingham!
Amara, Hannah, Ellie and Lydia with their medals
It was the turn of the Juniors on Tuesday 3 June and once again there were many fine performances from the Baston girls. The outstanding success of the afternoon was from Bethany Year 4 who jumped 3.69metres in her age group Long Jump event. This turned out to be the longest jump of the day in all of the age groups. She will also be representing London South in the National Championships at Birmingham.
The Year 6 Athletics Team Also at the area championships there were some other good performances. Alana came second in both the 80m sprint and high jump. Victoria was second in the long jump, Katie Duffy second in the 600m.
Year 6 Relay Team
BASTON ROSE BOWL
The annual under 12 lacrosse tournament took place at Baston on Saturday 15 March. In spite of a bad weather forecast the day remained pleasant and even sunny at times. This year we were pleased to welcome teams from Benenden, Dulwich College Prep School, Dunottar, St George's Weybridge and Walthamstow Hall.
The Baston Team
Action from Baston v St George's
Three Cheers! This year the tournament was played as a round robin and the eventual winners were Dunottar who hold the Rose Bowl until next year's tournament.
Mini Tennis Red Tennis Team of Two Kent Finals The Kent Team of Two Mini Tennis Red Finals were held at West Heath on Sunday 9 March. Olivia Bateson & Lily Evans from Year 2 and Jaspreet Sheera & Daisy Mills from Year 3 had previously qualified for these finals. Both pairs played a mixture of singles and doubles and played a very high standard of tennis. Jaspreet and Daisy won their way through to the semi finals where they had a very close match and narrowly missed gaining a place in the Final. Congratulations girls!
Junior Sports Successes during half-term
The Baston Juniors have been busy during half-term taking part in various sporting events.
On Saturday 16 February Elle Palmer took part in the Parklangley Mini Tennis “C squad Trophy” tournament. This is the first time she has played in this event and she came away victorious winning the trophy.
The next day Victoria Ward was at the Black Lion Centre, Gillingham for the ASA Kent Swimming Championships. Victoria swum a personal best of 1.28.01 in the 100m Individual Medley and gained a medal for 6th position in Kent.
On Wednesday Bethany was invited to a 3 hour talent ID afternoon at David Lloyd Tennis Centre, West Malling. She did fitness tests and tennis drills under the scrutiny of many LTA officials. There were only 10 girls chosen from Kent and she will be sent the results of the assessment at a later date.
In the Parklangley Competition on Friday, in the Red tournament for experienced players Elle Palmer got into the last 8 of the A tournament and Daisy Mills was the runner up of the B tournament.
In the less experienced Red tournament Abbie Saunders got into the semi-finals of the B tournament and Olivia Bateson was the winner.
Four of our Year 4s took part in the orange tournament and Alannah Sweeting was the runner up.
Inter-House Lacrosse
The Inter-House Lacrosse took place on Friday 16 February, the day before half-term. On a cold but dry afternoon the first match was Darwin against Pitt. This was a close match with Darwin eventually winning 3 - 0. Wilberforce then played Pitt and won 7 - 0. In the final Wilberforce beat Darwin 4 - 1 to win the trophy.
Junior Netball Matches
Friday 18 January: U11 B v Bishop Challoner A quick start was made by Baston who scored the first goal. Three other goals followed - all to Baston and we won the match 4 - 0.
Tuesday 22 January: U11 A & B v Merton Ct Both the Baston teams were the first to score and managed to maintain that lead throughout. Final scores: A team won 3 - 1 B team won 4 - 2
Indoor County Lacrosse Tournament
Wednesday 16 January: U14 Kent Indoor Tournament at Benenden This was our first indoor tournament and although we lost our first match the team improved their understanding of the game and were ready for the games ahead. One of the subsequent matches was against a Walthamstow Hall team which we won 2 - 0. By the end of the tournament our girls had achieved a vast improvement in their play.
ISA National Swimming Championships Saturday 17 November
Victoria of Year 6 went to Coventry on Saturday 17 November having been selected to represent London South at the ISA National Swimming Gala. She had qualified by winning her races in the Area Championships (see below). She swam well coming 5th in the breaststroke. In the butterfly she swam a new personal best of 42.9seconds. This put her in 4th place, just missing a medal by under three quarters of a second. Congratulations to Victoria for such great performances at a national event.
ISA Area Swimming Championships Wednesday 17 October
Nine Junior girls took part in the ISA London South Area Championships held at South Norwood on Wednesday evening, 17 October. Congratulations to Victoria who came first in the Year 6 50m breaststroke and 50m butterfly and the Year 4 relay team who won their race. Well done to Chloe who came 2nd in 50m freestyle and breaststroke and Bethany who came second in the backstroke.
The Year 4 Winning Relay Team
All the swimmers
Early Morning Challenge
Year 3 have just completed their first Early Morning challenge, a mini red tennis tournament for all girls in Year 3. Matches take place from 8.00 am on two weekday mornings. The eventual finalists were Elle and Daisy. Elle was the winner 10 - 5 and holds the cup for half a term until it is awarded to the next winner.
Two Year 9 Girls Selected for Kent
Congratulations to Jessica and Ellie pictured above from Year 9 who have both been selected to represent Kent in their respective sports of Lacrosse and Netball. Jessica was selected for U 15 Kent lacrosse following the U15 tournament at Benenden and played her first county match against Herts on Saturday 6 October. Ellie attended trials for the Kent training squad where 170 girls were competing for 60 places. The trials lasted eight and a half hours and Ellie was eventually selected as one of the twenty girls to train at Greenwich University.
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