Sports News

Cricket

On Saturday, the 1st XI defeated RGS Guildford away in a thrilling match, with stand-in captain Francombe (Lower Eighth) registering his first win. St Paul’s batted first, scoring 187 all out with Datla (Lower Eighth) making 45. In reply, Guildford were reduced to 113-6 before a 7th wicket partnership of 59 runs saw them reach 172-6, requiring just 16 runs more for victory with 4 wickets in hand. Bhatia (Upper Eighth) finally made the breakthrough before de Silva (Sixth Form) picked up the 8th wicket in the next over. Bhatia then took the 9th wicket before Dhasmana (Fifth Form) returned to finish off the innings. Guildford’s final 4 wickets fell for just 8 runs, with St Paul’s winning by 7 runs. Dhasmana finished with 3-24 while de Mestre (Sixth Form) took 3-32 towards the start of the innings. Praise should also go to Jack Vyvyan (Fifth Form) from the U15s who filled in as a substitute fielder for two thirds of the innings after an injury to keeper Raaj (Sixth Form).

At home, the 2nd XI also defeated Guildford with F Hammond Giles (Lower Eighth) taking 3-29. The U15s were less successful with all three sides recording losses. Bone (Fifth Form) made a half century for the U15Cs. Meanwhile the U14As won, with Trichur (Fourth Form) taking 5-17, while the U14Bs and U14Cs lost.

Earlier in the week, U15 sides defeated Ibstock Place while the 3rd XI also won against Ibstock Place on Saturday.

Please see below a full list of results and other notable performances:

This Saturday will see a block fixture against Reed’s School, with the 1st XI playing at home.

Athletics

Middlesex Schools’ Championships, Lee Valley, 15 June

Leau Roch (Fifth Form) and Charlie Nicolson (Fourth Form) won Gold in the U17 800m and U15 1500m respectively.

Joachim Strabo (Fourth Form) finished joint 3rd in the U15 800m with a new PB of 2:11.0.

Tonbridge Combined Events 14 June

Leo Popov (Fourth Form) finished 2nd in the triathlon, recording a personal best of 12.2 seconds in the 100m in the process.

Tennis

Congratulations to the U15 Tennis team who came 4th at the Eton Junior Pairs out of 16 schools.

St Paul’s entered a team of two pairs, consisting of Alexei Fletcher, Oliver Pitman, Joseph Roussel and Bryan Goh. SPS actually beat the overall winners but just came up short in number of games won overall.

Congratulations are also due to U18 tennis players, Adrian Chau and Konstantin Vujnovic, who reached the semi-finals of the St George’s Pairs.