As you know, on Sunday the Black squad travelled to the Redingensians festival. The format was different to previous festivals as we played in a league format with medals for the top 2 teams and of course, a trophy for the winning team. This differed to other tournaments where we play 2 pools and then semi finals, finals etc.
There were six teams in the Under 7’s age group; Farnham, Reading Abbey, Bracknell, Redingensians , Redingensians B and Camberley.
Our results were as follows;
- Farnham draw 4-4.
- Abbey lost- 3-4
- Redingensians won 5-2
- Redingensians B won 6-1
- Bracknell won 6-5
This placed us at 2nd in the league on 7 points, Farnham won with 8 and Bracknell 3rd with 6. It was a great tournament and the excitement came to a head with our final match against Bracknell; lose or draw and we finish 3rd, win and finish 2nd and receive medals. Add to this that we were convincingly beaten by Bracknell in a pre- Christmas friendly, we were truly the underdogs. This victory almost felt as good as winning the tournament.
All of the players on the day were fantastic; Hannah, Tom and Joshua Lovell -Smith appearing for the first time in the Black squad acquitted themselves very well. Every single player in the squad had a moment to be proud of and the support was also fantastic.
We wish both Joshua Palmer and Hannah a speedy recovery. Joshua limped off the final game and Hannah has probably woken up this morning with a shiny black eye, we look forward to seeing you back at training.
So far this season the Blacks have been in 3 tournaments; Cobham- winners, Camberley- runners up and now Redignesnians- runners up. We have played approximately 15 matches in these tournaments and have only been beaten twice. This is a great record and bodes well for the future.
