Rounders
U9 Rounders Tournament at Terrington
Last Friday Y3 girls went to their inaugural U9 rounders tournament at Terrington and came away with bronze medals! Well done girls.
U11 Rounders Tournament at Terrington
On Wednesday the 15th June, BGS U11’s competed in the Terrington Hall Rounders Tournament. Our first match was against Woodleigh. It was a very close match with us scoring 9 rounders and Woodleigh only just behind with 8 ½ rounders. Our next match was against Bow school. In this match we stopped them scoring many rounders with their total as 1 ½. We batted very well and scored 16 rounders. Our third match was against Terrington Hall, the school who was holding the event. We knew they were going to be good because we had played them before but we were still determined. They scored 9 rounders but when we went to bat, unfortunately they got all of us out and we only scored 4 ½. Our final match in our pool was against Queen Mary’s. This was another close match with both teams playing well but we won 12-10 ½. This meant we were through into the semi-finals and would be playing the winners of the other pool, Cundall Manor. In this match we tried our best but Cundall beat us 13 – 4 ½ and we were out of the competition. Special mentions go to Lucy who was filling in as backstop and did a great job and to the whole team for trying their hardest and getting us into the semi-finals.
By Samantha Baker-Jones
U11 Rounders v Ripon Cathedral Choir School
On Wednesday 25th May BGS U11’s played rounders against Ripon Cathedral Choir School. They only had 12 girls which was not enough for two real games, so while one team played a practise game the other played the real game then we swapped. Ripon won the toss and chose to field first. We batted well and scored 14 ½ rounders. We then swapped and went out to field. We were fielding well and only let them score 5 ½ rounders. We stumped five people out at 1st post and one at 2nd, we caught one person out at 4th and Lexie caught one at backstop. At the end of the first innings the score was 14 ½ - 5 ½ to BGS. In the second innings we brought on the players who had been playing in the practice match and went back to bat. We didn’t score as well only scoring 6 rounders and running ourselves out, meanwhile Ripon scored 13 rounders. The final score was Ripon 18 ½ and BGS 20 ½, with Georgina scoring 5 rounders, Lexie 2, Samantha B-J 6 ½, Flora ½, Lucy 1 ½ , Alicia ½ , Michelle 1, Lucinda ½ ,Minnie ½ and Victoria 1 Well played everyone.
By Samantha Baker-Jones
UNDER 9 ROUNDERS V ST MARTINS AMPLEFORTH Monday 16th May
On Monday the Year 3 and 4 girls played their first game of rounders against St Martin’s, Ampleforth. We lost the toss and were put in to bat. The game was to consist of 40 balls per innings. We started in a very positive way and quickly scored. Unfortunately our lack of experience also resulted in us taking unnecessary risks which meant we lost scoring chances. Nevertheless at the end of the first innings the score line was very close. We had scored 9 to St Martin’s 8½. Evelyn bowled really well and Charlotte proved to be a very useful backstop as she caught someone out in both innings. Our main effort in the first innings was to stop the scoring batsman from doing too much damage. St Martin’s tried the same on us in the 2nd innings. As the game developed the fielding skills of both teams had improved noticeably. Our top scorer was Evelyn Wright with 3½ closely followed by Anouk with 3. We won 16-11½. Well played everyone
U11's v St Martins Ampleforth
On Wednesday 11th May BGS U11‘s played rounders against St Martins Ampleforth. They won the toss and chose to field first. We batted well and scored 17 ½ rounders. We then went out to field and stopped them scoring a lot. We stumped three people out at 1st base and two at 2nd, and caught one out at 2nd base and one at 3rd base. At the end of the first innings the score was 17 ½ - 1 to us. In the second innings we brought on our six year 5‘s because Ampleforth had only brought one team. We were still batting well, scoring 6 rounders, but Sophie, Samantha Henderson, Minnie and Evie all ran themselves out taking unnecessary risks. Ampleforth went in to bat again and scored four more rounders. We ran out one at 1st base, three at 2nd, one at 3rd and caught one out at 3rd. The final score was 23 ½ -5 to BGS with Georgina scoring 5 ½ , Lexie 6 ½ , Samantha B-J 4, Flora 3, Lucinda ½ , Victoria ½, Zeyra 1 and Alicia ½. Well played everyone.
By Samantha Baker-Jones
U11 Rounders v Cundall Manor
On the 4th May BGS U11s played Rounders against Cundall Manor. It was our first match of the season and we’d had only one practice. Cundall won the toss and chose to field first. We batted well, hitting quite a lot and scoring six rounders. Michelle did a great hit but unfortunately it went straight to second base who then caught her out. We then swapped and went out to field. We were fielding really well, almost catching some hits, and, with the combination of Lexie as back stop and Samantha at 1st base, we stumped five people out. Michelle also stumped one person out at 2nd base and Lexie made a fantastic catch, diving onto the ground and only just getting the ball. At the end of the first innings the score was six all. In the second innings we didn’t bat as well only scoring one rounder, with Cundall scoring ten. In total we scored 9 ½ with Georgina scoring 1, Zeyra 1½, Lexie 3, and Samantha, Megan and Lilly all scoring a ½ . The final score was BGS 9 ½ and Cundall 16. Special mentions go to Lexie for her catch of the match and to the whole team for a super first game. Great play everyone.
By Samantha Baker-Jones
On Wednesday 4th may BGS U10s team played Cundall manor. Cundall won the toss and chose to field first. We got off to a good start as we had only had one practice before the match. After about two bats each we started scoring rounders. Sophie. Evie, Minnie and Victoria scored a rounder each in the first half. As well as rounders we also scored two half rounders. After 36 balls we went to fielding. Cundall were good at batting and could hit far so our 3rd and 2nd deep had a big job. As we got nearer to the end of the first half our game started to get better. The score was 6 1/2 to 4 1/2 to Cundall. In the second half we batted well and took risks on our last go to get more rounders. Evie and Sophie scored 2 rounders in the second half and 2 1/2 rounders were also scotred by other players. Our fielding in second half was good with amazing stops from Evelyn and some good backstopping from Lucy stopped Cundall from scoring more rounders. Unfortunately Cundall scored 6 1/2 more rounders. The final score was 13 1/2 to 9 1/2 to cundall. Special mentions go to the whole team for playing their best!
By Victoria Blaker
