September 2024 Sport Abingdon Wimbledon anyone? Congratulations to Second Year Cyrus who has won the Play Your Way to Wimbledon U14 County Finals. As a result, he represented Oxfordshire for the second consecutive year in the National Finals this summer, competing against other county winners from across the country. Following a convincing win over MCS in the semi-final of the County Cup in June, the final against Lord Williams' School proved much tighter. Abingdon fielded first with some excellent bowling restricting Lord Williams' to 76 for 7 from their 20 overs with the wickets shared between Thomas (2), Arjun (2) and George, Samuel and Toby (1 a piece). George got the reply off to a positive start scoring 18 off the first 7 balls, but a flurry of wickets found the team in a precarious position at 41 for 6 and then 55 for 7. Arjun, coming in at number 9 to join Thomas, looked to be guiding the team over the line, only to be bowled with 2 runs still required. Number 10 then followed next ball but Toby resolutely defended the remaining deliveries in the over before Thomas capped off a man of the match performance by hitting the winning runs to secure the narrowest of victories. The team now progress into the Regional rounds next year as U13s. We are so proud of them. U12 Country Cricket Champions 24 Congratulations to our Firefly team who finished 12th in the BSDRA finals regatta at Farmoor reservoir on 26 and 27 June. Given our varied programme focuses on single handed lasers and double hander trapeze sailing, this is an impressive result. Our sailors had limited time to train on fireflies and learn the team racing format. We were pitched against schools who train exclusively in fireflies and had a difficult draw against teams who ended up in 2nd and 3rd position. Smooth sailing Healthy competition Lower School enjoyed an afternoon of athletic endeavour at Tilsley Park in the annual inter-tutor group competition. Congratulations to all who took part and to 2M and 1H who were the individual winners.
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