Sports News

Golf

Richmond Schools Tournament, 15 June

Ten pupils from the Fourth and Fifth Form competed in the 9 hole tournament at Fulwell Golf Club, organised by Hampton School. Congratulations to Kevin Lu (Fourth Form) who shot 3 over par and won the intermediate competition (Years 9 to 11).

Adrian Chatin (Fifth Form) was a runner up after scoring 5 over par.

Tennis

St George’s Cup U18

Congratulations to Adrian Chau and Konstantin Vujnovic who progressed to the semi-final of the cup in a fiercely competitive tournament, playing superbly throughout the day in challenging conditions.

Congratulations are also due to Teymour Harandi and Shlok Poddar who progressed to the Plate Final, eventually conceding to Abingdon School.

Cricket

It was a successful weekend of cricket for St Paul’s vs Reed’s School. The 1st XI won by 45 runs, with Ali (Lower Eighth) and Jones (Upper Eighth) both making half centuries, and de Mestre (Sixth Form) taking 3-40. The 2nd XI also won by 66 runs, with a half century and 4 wickets from Jansen (Lower Eighth), further half centuries from both Sankaye (Lower Eighth) and Ritchie (Lower Eighth), whilst Hughes (Sixth Form) took 3-21. Meanwhile, the 3rd XI lost a hard-fought match against a strong Reed’s side.

Further success was found by the U15As, who won by 6 wickets. Burch (Fifth Form) was the standout player taking 4-22, including a hat trick, and scoring 32 runs. The U15Bs suffered a loss, although V Kurup (Fifth Form) took 3-13, meanwhile the U15Cs won. The U14As won by 5 wickets with 2 balls to spare, with a strong team performance beating a team who had had a good season and who had knocked us out of the cup earlier in the term. Some excellent fielding with 3 difficult boundary catches supported some good bowling (Johnson [Fourth Form] 3-22) and a terrific knock from Coondapoor (Upper Eighth) who scored 88. The U14Bs lost, but Metcalf (Fourth Form) impressed with the bat, scoring 41. Although the U14Cs also lost, there were excellent performances from Khan 3-23, Wright 43 not out and Brooks 30, all of whom are in the Fourth Form.

A full list of results can be seen below:

This Saturday will see a block fixture against Dulwich College, with the 1st XI playing at home. All teams will be wearing an item of red clothing in support of the Ruth Strauss Foundation.

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.