Southwater Junior Academy won this year’s Horsham Primary Schools Stoolball Tournament this morning coming out on top of an entry field of 11 teams for the event at Horsham Cricket Club.
Teams were placed into four initial sub-groups for the first stage. Kingslea A sailed through to win Group 1 whilst Shelley achieved similar by virtue of total runs score after all of them, All Saints A and Leechpool B gained a win each in their round-robin. Southwater dominated Group 3 and in the two-team Group 4 Leechpool A saw off Plaistow and Kirdford.
In the top tier in Phase 2 Kingslea A dominated their young Shelley opponents whilst Southwater edged out Leechpool A by a margin of 11 runs in a re-run of a first phase friendly the two had played in which Southwater won by 14 runs. Southwater triumphed in the final against Kingslea A 186-158 whilst Shelley somewhat tore up the form book to win against Leechpool A for third place.
In the middle tier Kingslea B beat All Saints A by just nine runs to finish top whilst Plaistow and Kirdford nudged out Holbrook by the value of a boundary to take seventh spot overall. In the lower tier round-robin Leechpool B enjoyed success as a result of beating Slinfold and sharing a draw with All Saints B.
Thanks to Horsham Cricket Club for hosting the event on their wonderful facilities and well done to everyone involved for contributing to a brilliantly enjoyable event.
RESULTS
PITCH/GROUP 1 Kingslea A All Saints B Holbrook | PITCH/GROUP 2 Leechpool B Shelley All Saints A | PITCH/GROUP 3 Slinfold Southwater Kingslea B | PITCH/GROUP 4 Plaistow/Kirdford Leechpool A |
PHASE 1 | |||
Kingslea A v All Saints B 192 142 | Shelley v Leechpool B 191 168 | Kingslea B v Southwater 121 163 | Plaistow/Kirdford v Leechpool A 149 194 |
Kingslea A v Holbrook 167 100 | All Saints A v Leechpool B 145 150 | Slinfold v Kingslea B 123 173 | FRIENDLY Southwater v Leechpool A 156 142 |
Holbrook v All Saints B 138 121 | Shelley v All Saints A 144 183 | Slinfold v Southwater 133 180 | FRIENDLY Kingslea B v Plaistow/Kirdford |
PHASE 2 | |||
UPPER TIER | MIDDLE TIER | LOWER TIER For places 9-11 | |
MATCH 1 Winner Gp 1 v Winner Gp 2 Kingslea A v Shelley 195 132 | MATCH 3 R-Up Gp 1 v R-Up Gp 2 Holbrook v All Saints A 156 173 | Third Gp 1 v Third Gp 2 All Saints B v Leechpool B 160 160 | MIDDLE TIER MATCH 4 R-Up Gp 3 v R-Up Gp 4 Kingslea B v Plaistow/Kirdford 191 139 |
MATCH 2 Winner Gp 3 v Winner Gp 4 Southwater v Leechpool A 173 162 | FIFTH PLACE Winner M3 v Winner M4 All Saints A v Kingslea B 167 176 | Third Gp 1 v Third Gp 3 All Saints B v Slinfold 154 165 | |
FINAL (1st) Winner M1 v Winner M2 Kingslea A v Southwater 158 186 | SEVENTH PLACE Loser M3 v Loser M4 Plaistow/Kirdford v Holbrook 179 175 | Third Gp 3 v Third Gp 2 Slinfold v Leechpool B 164 190 | UPPER TIER THIRD PLACE Loser M1 v Loser M2 Shelley v Leechpool A 181 176 |