Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Pairs and Rapid Fire Cricket
Rapid Fire Cricket Finals- Ashford Prep School - Thursday 11th July
After plenty of rain this week, the sun finally came out just in time for the Kent Rapid Fire Cricket finals held at Ashford Prep school. It proved to be another fantastic day of cricket with Southborough representing the Tunbridge wells district having won the area championships. We were joined by all the area winners in Kent including included Canterbury Road, Selsted, Sheldwich, Shoreham, Slade, Weldesley Haddon Dene, More Park, Mersham and St Mary’s Primary schools.
As always, the event was really well organised with all teams playing each other during the day. Each team had eight players who took turns at hitting a ball off a tee before making as many runs as possible before the opposing team replaced all three ball on the tees and retreating behind their fielding line.
Southborough made a superb start in the local derby against Slade primary school from Tonbridge narrowly losing by 2 runs! Southborough played really well in there nine matches winning four matches and coming incredibly close in many of the other matches. A special award went to Zoe for her resilience after hurting her finger but then batting brilliantly. Zoe was nominated by the teachers umpiring the games for a ‘Magic moments ‘award, winning a cricket bat! It was a brilliant team effort from all the children that took part in very warm conditions and the children thoroughly enjoyed the day. Well done everyone.
Overall, we finished a brilliant 7th in a very competitive competition.
Also, a big thank you too all the parents that transported the children to and from the event in Ashford and for supporting me on the day.
The team were: Jaxon, Henry, James, Ben, Isaac, Austin, Antonio, Rebekah and Zoe.
The final scores were (in runs):
Southborough v Slade- 44-46
Southborough v Mary’s- 44-55
Southborough v Weldesley Haddon Dene- 52-47
Southborough v More Park- 55-49
Southborough v Mersham - 48- 54
Southborough v Canterbury Road- 49-56
Southborough v Selsted- 52-50
Southborough v Sheldston- 49-58
Southborough v Shoreham- 55-49
Year 3-4 Dynamo Cricket – Thursday 13th June
Yesterday Southborough travelled to the Nevil Cricket club to take part in the Dynamo Cricket Competition against twelve schools from the local district. It was a pleasant start to the day with the sun shining, however the threat of rain was ever present as the day progressed.
Southborough were in Group 1 with Claremont B, Bidborough, St Augustine’s and St Peter’s. During the morning we played all four teams and each batting pair had ten balls to face and when fielding bowled 5 balls individually in the forty-ball game innings.
Southborough produced some fine cricket with Freddie, Zachary, Leo and Ben and Finntan taking wickets with the ball. Batting was an area that we continue to focus on with Jonah, Archie, Noah, Jemima and Holly producing some superb shots throughout the morning scoring well with the bat. The team fielded with conviction and control and we made some excellent catches with Freddie, Leo, Zachary, Finntan and Ben all making some precise catches when the ball came to them.
Southborough came runners-up in their pool narrowly losing to Bidborough before progressing to the play offs where they played Ide Hill in the afternoon. Ide Hill were a well organised team but Southborough managed to take four early wickets keeping the score very low. It came down to the final over of five balls where Ide Hill managed to pull away to win by 9 runs. Ide Hill went on to win the competition.
Southborough completed the day by finishing forth overall out of the twelve teams that took part. Well done to all the pupils representing the school.
The team were: Jonah, Ben, Archie, Noah, Finntan, Zachary, Leo, Jemima, Holly and Freddie.
Dynamo Cricket Competition at The Nevil Cricket Club- Tunbridge Wells- Thursday 6th June
Well done to all the pupils that took part in the Dynamo Cricket Competition at the Nevil Cricket Ground on Thursday 6th June. It was a fantastic day with the sun shining making for a perfect day’s cricket. We were in Group A with St Matthews, Ide Hill and St Augustine’s Primary Schools. This was a particularly tough group with lots of past winners of the event.
We played St Augustine’s first and although we batted second, we produced an excellent score of 49 with some superb batting from Jack and Alfie. The game came down to the last 3 runs with St Augustine’s managing to hit an excellent four to win by 2 runs.
We then played St Matthews who went on to be runners up at the end of the day. Despite some brilliant bowling from Edward and Mohammed we were unable to get the important wickets that we needed. St Matthews scored 67 runs which meant we had to score fast when we batted. Grace and Isabella both played some fantastic shots and were supported by Samuel and Hamad. We came up short with 38 runs but still fielded and batted with great focus, making some excellent catches in the covers.
Our final game in the group was Ide Hill, the Tonbridge area winners where we played arguably our best game against Ide Hill. We batted first and produced some excellent shots with Jacob and Bastian hitting the ball with great precision scoring 43 runs as team. When we bowled Edward took two great wickets in the first over and then it came down to the final few balls where Ide Hill just stretched ahead scoring 52 runs.
In the afternoon, we played Bishops Down A and really found our form. We scored a magnificent 91 runs in our afternoon game and again we had some superb catches in the field to see us win by 53 runners.
The Scores:
St Augustine 51- 49 Southborough
St Matthews 67- 38 Southborough
Ide Hill 52 – 43 Southborough
St Augustines 38- 91 Southborough
Well done to all the pupils who took part in the tournament. The pupils were: Jack, Alfie, Edward, Mohammed, Samuel, Hamad, Jacob, Bastian, Grace and Isabella.
Year 2 Rapid Fire Cricket Competition – Skinners Kent Junior School- Wednesday 1st May
On Wednesday 1st May the Year 2 Cricket team travelled to Skinners Kent Junior School to take part in the Kent School Games Qualifying Rapid Fire Cricket Competition. The children have been practising at school over the last few weeks as well as playing for their clubs in the community. Southborough played four teams producing some fantastic shots with the bat, scoring more than ten runs per pupil on most individual bats during each innings.
Our highest team score came against SKA where we scored a magnificent total of 137 runs from our team of 8. The children also fielded really well showing excellent speed and agility to maintain the lead throughout their four matches and prevent the other schools scoring highly with St Marks scoring highest with 87 runs before we replied with 114 runs to finish by a clear majority.
In the end we played SKA, Claremont, St Marks and St Matthews winning by some considerable margin of runs in all of our games. The children played with confidence and with fantastic sportsmanship and now move onto the Kent Schools Games finals on the 9th July representing the Tunbridge Wells District Rapid Fire team.
The Scores were:
SKA 63 /Southborough 137
Claremont 73/ Southborough 117
St Matthews 83/ Southborough 106
St Marks 87/ Southborough 114
The Rapid-Fire Cricket team representing Southborough were: Rebekah, Zoe, James, Isaac, Henry, Austin, Antonio, Ben and Jaxon.
Southborough shine at Dynamo Cricket Competition-Thursday 18th May
Well done to all the pupils that took part in the Dynamo Pairs Cricket Competition last week at the Nevil Cricket Club. Southborough were in group D and had a tough group which included St Matthews, Broadwater and St Peter’s school. We started really well against St Matthews with some brilliant bowling from Elliott and Edward. We eventually managed to win by 48 runs. St Peter’s were very competitive and due to some excellent fielding from Magnus, Martha and Louis despite St Peter’s scoring 37 runs we managed to win by an impressive 23 runs. Broadwater again played really well scoring 46 runs but with some accurate bowling from April and Beth we felt we could comfortably achieve this score. Samuel, Jared and Harley batted really well, finding the gaps and the team managed to produce their biggest score of the day of 65 runs to win the game.
In the Semi finals we played Claremont School who were made up of Tunbridge Wells district players and despite producing our best batting and bowling Claremont proved too strong having scored 78 runs in their innings. We replied with 43 runs but lost by 35 runs by the end of the match. We finished the day by playing St Johns and had a very close game with Elliott and Samuel leading by example. In the end despite scoring 48 runs we lost by 18 runs due to losing 7 wickets when we batted. Overall, we finished 4th in the competition and it was a brilliant team performance. Well done everyone.
The team were: Harley, Elliott (Capt), Louis, Jared, Magnus, Edward, Samuel, Martha, Beth and April.
