Southwater are Top Dodge Dogs
Southwater A won the the Horsham Area Primary School Year 5/6 Dodgeball Tournament run at The Bridge leisure centre tonight but it was close, a period of extra-time being required to split them from Holbrook B in an exciting final.
Dry and warm weather greeted 10 competing teams on the outdoor multicourt where the event was played so grip underfoot on the rubberised surface was sound, a good job with some strong throwers on show. In the first phase of competition two round-robin groups, A and B, operated to feed teams into the relevant sections of the Phase 2 play-offs that would decide the final placings.
Southwater A sailed though Division B with four straight wins in which they did not even concede a set. Holbrook A also did well with three wins to claim runners-up spot but could not stop the Southwater juggernaut, going down 2-0 in that match. Leechpool B’s win over Holbrook C was instrumental in them finishing above them and Castlewood. Castlewood’s two draws against Holbrook C’s one consigned the latter to the bottom spot.
Group A was not quite so clear cut; no team achieved a full house of victories. However Holbrook B were impressive nonetheless only failing to achieve maximum group points due to their 1-1 draw with St Robert Southwell first up. St Rob’s also went unbeaten but were second as a result of being held to two draws, third placed Leechpool A being the other team to hold them. Southwater B and C teams, the latter being the only all female outfit, brought up the rear. The Bs avoided the basement spot by beating their stablemates 3-0.
So to the play-offs. Holbrook B made a mockery of their inferior alphabetical status by beating their A team 3-0 to reach the final whilst St Robert Southwell battled bravely against the powerful Southwater A team before going down 2-1. In the middle section Leechpool A and Southwater B had straightforward victories to take themselves into the fifth place play-off, whilst Southwater C saw off fellow third-stringers Holbrook C 2-1 in the ninth place-play-off.
Leechpool B won a tight and low scoring seventh place decider against Castlewood. Southwater B also relied on a one set score to beat Leechpool A for fifth. St Robert Southwell captured third place by beating Holbrook A.
And so to that final. Southwater A came through a topsy-turvy first set to take the lead but Holbrook B levelled as a consequence of having more players left on court by the time the final whistle went. So a minute’s extra-time was declared in which Southwater made a couple of early hits and had enough nouse – ‘game management’ in trendy football parlance, to get over the line despite Holbrook’s valiant efforts.
What a great night of dodgy fun!
RESULTS
COURT 1 GROUP A | COURT 2 SHARED | COURT 3 GROUP B |
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PHASE 1 – GROUPS | |||
3 Leechpool A v Southwater B 1
| 1 Holbrook B v Robert Southwell 1 | 4 Holbrook A v Castlewood 0 |
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0 Southwater C v Leechpool A 5 | 0 Leechpool B v Southwater A 5 | 4 Holbrook A v Holbrook C 0 |
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0 Southwater B v Holbrook B 4 | 3 Robert Southwell v Southwater C 0 | 1 Castlewood v Leechpool B 1 |
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0 Leechpool A v Holbrook B 3 | 2 Southwater A v Holbrook C 0 | 4 Holbrook A v Leechpool B 0 |
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3 Southwater B v Southwater C 0 | 1 Robert Southwell v Leechpool A 1 | 1 Castlewood v Holbrook C 1 |
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3 Holbrook B v Southwater C 0 | 2 Southwater A v Holbrook A 0 | 2 Leechpool B v Holbrook C 1 |
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1 Southwater B v Robert Southwell 2 | DIV A TABLE:
DIV B TABLE:
| 0 Castlewood v Southwater A 4 |
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PHASE 2 – PLAY-OFFS | |||
MATCH 1 1st Group A v 2nd Group B 3 Holbrook B v Holbrook A 0 | MATCH 2 1st Group B v 2nd Group A 2 Southwater A v Robert Southwell 1 | MATCH 3 3rd Group A v 4th Group B 3 Leechpool A v Castlewood 0 | |
MATCH 4 3rd Group B v 4th Group A 0 Leechpool B v Southwater B 3 | 3rd PLACE PLAY-OFF Loser Match 1 v Loser Match 2 0 Holbrook A v Robert Southwell 1 | 9th PLACE PLAY-OFF 5th Group A v 5th Group B 2 Southwater C v Holbrook C 1 | |
FINAL Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2 1 Holbrook B v Southwater A 2 | 7th PLACE PLAY-OFF Loser Match 3 v Loser Match 4 1 Castlewood v Leechpool B 2 | 5th PLACE PLAY-OFF Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4 0 Leechpool A v Southwater B 1 |
PLACINGS
- Southwater A
- Holbrook B
- St Robert Southwell
- Holbrook A
- Southwater B
- Leechpool A
- Leechpool B
- Castlewood
- Southwater C
- Holbrook C