Having won the SSP round of the RFU Tag Rugby competition the girls and boys from Tealby school automatically progressed to the County Final where they faced opposition who had also won a local round.

Sixteen schools journeyed to Sleaford Rugby Club where the RFU Development Officers hosted the County event. Tealby worked tirelessly thoroughout the morning\\\'s play not dropping a match and therefore winning their league and a place at the Regional Finals in Leicester on 10th June.

We wish them the very best of luck and hope the children enjoy the experience.

Each team played the other three with matches superbly officiated by Wes Allison and six of his under 15 cricketers who had kindly been allowed out from Caistor Yarborough and Grammar schools.

Matches were played in great spirit and with much gusto. The sound of leather on willow is replaced by latex on plastic as the kwik cricket equipment is modified for junior use but still the fours and sixes rang out.

The fielding was a little lax at times and some bowlers struggled with getting the ball on target but then again some glimpses of brilliance proved that we may be looking at a Charlotte Edwards or Aaron Brindle of the future.

The last game of the day became the decider as North Somercotes (unbeaten so far) took on the Grasby team (also unbeaten).

Somercotes batted first and notched up runs at a steady pace only losing four wickets during the innings. Grasby matched their oppositions score almost to the letter during the first six overs but then Grasby played their secret weapons - their last pairing. These girls hit 18 off the 12 balls with no loss of wicket and secured a win for Grasby by 12 runs.

Grasby will now represent The Wolds SSP at the County Final in June. We wish them the very best of luck.

Thanks go to Caistor Cricket Club for permitting the use of the ground and the pavilion.

St. Hughs Primary School in Lincoln won the first ever Schools County High 5 Netball Finals last weekend at Monks Dyke School in Louth.

16 teams involving over 170 children from across the county played in the competition on Saturday 15th May 2010 in front of over 200 parents.

The participating netball teams from each school were split into two groups of eight teams, who all played each other in the group stages.

The winners and runners-up were then forwarded to the semi finals and the winners of them played in the final, where St. Hughs were victorious. Saxilby Junior School came 2nd, Helpringham Primary School came 3rd, and William Alvey Primary School came 4th.

Schools representing the Coastal and Wolds SSA were Tealby, St. Michaels -Louth, Horncastle and Burgh le Marsh.

Our teams started off slowly but gradually got into their stride as games progressed taking several scalps during the group sessions. Although they missed out on the trophies this year all children came a way with a participation medal for their great effort.

Maria Blood from St. Hughs Primary School said:

I would just like to say, a big thanks on behalf of our school for such an enjoyable tournament on Saturday. It was very well organised and it was a pleasure to have such a good level of umpiring.

This is the first time in netball that there has been an opportunity to go through to a final on this level and it was a great opportunity to promote netball in schools.

The event on Saturday was the culmination of 25 qualifying tournaments and leagues in the run up to the Netball Finals which involved over 2000 pupils, and 160 officiators from all over Lincolnshire.

The event was run by Lincolnshire Competition Manager Paula Hill and the Lincolnshire County Committee who supplied all the umpires on the day.

Paula Hill, the Coastal Wolds School Sports Partnership Competition Manager said:

This was a fantastic event that really showed the commitment of the parents, children and teachers to giving their children access to great schools competition. It is hoped that more schools will buy into the concept of schools competition and enter the competition pathways that have been set up by the Lincolnshire Competition Manager team and School Sport Partnerships.

The Netball High 5s is one eight sports that currently have County Finals for primary Schools. Other sports include Kwik Cricket, Tag Rugby, Tri Golf, Mini Tennis, Volleyball, Rounders and Sport Hall Athletics.

Having successfully beaten off all opposition in their SSP League Skegness Grammar School year 10 girls took on the Wolds SSP league winners Monks Dyke. Although the final score shows the Monks Dyke girls dominating every quarter to the credit of the Skegness Grammar girls they never gave up and doggedly fought to the end.

Monks Dyke stormed into a 8 - 1 lead after the first quarter and although lapsed a little in the second allowing Skegness to creep back (12 - 4)  once again they kicked in for the last two quarters taking the game 28 - 7.

In the younger age group the two teams from Caistor Grammar School and John Spendluffe School Alford followed much the same pattern as the year 10 girls.

The Wolds SSP representatives were slick and sharp for the first two quarters scoring 9 goals in each and denying the Spendluffe girls the opportunity to shoot. Half time score 18 - 1.

Caistor became lax in the third quarter only scoring two goals with Spendluffe adding another to their tally. The final score after 40 minutes 26 - 2 to Caistor.

Congratulations to the winning teams but also to the runners up who put up a brave fight.

Skegness Grammar were also the defeated team in the Y8 SSA Football Final played in the glorious setting of London Road Sports Ground Louth.

Having met Caistor Grammar this year in the knock out Cup and losing 8 -1 the boys from Skegness were determined to put up a closer fight this time. End to end play, smart interceptions and nifty footwork by both teams kept the spectators in full voice. A final score of 4 - 0 to Caistor Grammar sent them home victorious with the Skegness team leaving the pitch with heads held high knowing they had reduced their previous scoreline and matched the Grammar throughout much of the game.

The year 10 final between Skegness Grammar School and Monks Dyke, Louth was another spectacular battle.  Excellent play by the attack and superb defence kept the spectators enthused with goals coming thick and fast as tactics paid off.

Last years champions Skegness had to relinquish their title as the Monks Dyke boys took the game 4 - 2. 

Things brightened up however when matches got underway.

Undeterred by the slippery courts and sometimes heavy rain these young netballers showed that they were going to compete no matter what the conditions.

Nine teams from seven schools took part in two leagues each playing all others.

At the semi final stage an unbeaten Horncastle A realised they would have to play their B team for a place in the final. Caistor Grammar - also unbeaten had to compete for their place in the final by taking on the young ladies from King Edwards, Louth.

After two rather close semis Horncastle A played Caistor Grammar for the trophy. This game highlighted the skill that these young 12 year olds have already achieved and some fine passing down the court lead to superb goals from both teams with missed shots picked up elegently by strong defence. An end to end game but Horncastle managed to take and hold onto a lead into the final moments.

Horncastle A 5 Caistor Grammar 2

Thanks go to Monks Dyke school for the use of the facility and to players and their teachers who umpired for making such a super competition.

The U13 and U15 tournament will be on 24th April 2010 at St Clements College, Skegness 9am to 12 noon.

Things brightened up however when matches got underway.

Undeterred by the slippery courts and sometimes heavy rain these young netballers showed that they were going to compete no matter what the conditions.

Nine teams from seven schools took part in two leagues each playing all others.

At the semi final stage an unbeaten Horncastle A realised they would have to play their B team for a place in the final. Caistor Grammar - also unbeaten had to compete for their place in the final by taking on the young ladies from King Edwards, Louth.

After two rather close semis Horncastle A played Caistor Grammar for the trophy. This game highlighted the skill that these young 12 year olds have already achieved and some fine passing down the court lead to superb goals from both teams with missed shots picked up elegently by strong defence. An end to end game but Horncastle managed to take and hold onto a lead into the final moments.

Horncastle A 5 Caistor Grammar 2

Thanks go to Monks Dyke school for the use of the facility and to players and their teachers who umpired for making such a super competition.

The U13 and U15 tournament will be on 24th April 2010 at St Clements College, Skegness 9am to 12 noon.

A round robin format was used with every team playing each other.

Caistor Grammar students umpired and students from Caistor Yarborough organised the event and lead the warm ups.

It took a little while for most of the youngsters to get used to playing on a full sized netball court but the quality of play improved as the tournament progressed and the enthusiasm from the teams was a pleasure to watch.

In the High 5 netball game, player positions are rotated every game therefore the players all have a chance to shoot, defend and play a centre court position.

Schools represented were Caistor, Nettleton, Grasby, Osgodby and Kelsey.

Joy Purkiss who coaches netball in the primary schools was also in attendance offering support and encouragement, along with Paula Hill, Competitions manager.

The contest was closely fought with exciting end to end action. The results of many games often being decided by just one or two goals.

Nettleton primary played really well to take 3rd position with Caistor A team performing superbly to secure 2nd place.

Overall winners were Grasby A team who won not only the local competition but also the opportunity to represent the Caistor district at the Wolds Schools Sports Partnership High 5 finals on the 27th April in Louth.

Queen Elizabeth Horncastle and QE Alford represented C&W SSA at U19, QE Horncastle and Banovallum at U16 and QE Horncastle and Caistor Grammar at U14 in the County Netball Tournament. 

Each school team had finished in the top two of our Super Zone tournament and won their place in the County event where they would meet up with the top two teams from the other three Super Zones.

Netball standards within the county continue to rise as Lincolnshire paves the way for the East Midlands by providing clubs with the opportunity to play in County Leagues from U11 to senior.  Schools can feed their players into any of the 14 netball clubs within our county.

We wish the U19 teams from Priory LSST and John Leggett College, the U16 teams from Priory LSST and The Deepings and the U14 teams from Stamford and Sir John Nelthorpe continued success at the Regional event - 30th January 2010 at Soar Valley, Leicestershire.

Year 11 pupils from Caistor Grammar, Caistor Yarborough, Tennyson, Lady Jane Franklin, Monks Dyke and Banovallum competed for the boys trophy.

After some nail biting matches and excellent baskets the young men from the host venue, Monks Dyke lifted the silver ware.

The Year 10 boys tournament attracted pupils from Caistor Yarborough, Banovallum, Monks Dyke, Tennyson,Cordeaux, Lady Jane Franklin and Skegness Grammar.

After yet another fantastic evening of basketball Skegness Grammar and Monks Dyke faced each other in the final.  A great game ensued with Skegness taking the victory.

Caistor Yarborough girls will have to clear space in their trophy cabinet as both Y11 and Y10 teams have recently won their events.

The crisp November afternoon saw teams from Skegness Grammar, Monks Dyke (Y11 Football), John Spendluffe and Monks Dyke (Y9 Football), Skegness Grammar and Monks Dyke (Y11 Netball) and Skegness Grammar and Caistor (Y9 Netball) compete for the SSA trophies.

Each team were of course already winners having beaten off all other opponents in their SSP leagues but this was to find the best of the best.

Both Football matches were very close with several chances at either end but superb defence in both age groups meant finding the back of the net was a rare event. The boys from John Spendluffe Alford - being undefeated in their league carried on their winning ways by taking victory 3 goals to one over Monks Dyke.

Monks Dyke Y11 footballers put up a fantastic battle in their match against Skegness but also came away empty handed as their opponents team work produce two superb goals to end the match 2-0.

The Y11 girls from Monks Dyke had a different story to tell. Although slow to start and fitness levels dipping in the last quarter they produced some superb passing moves in to their shooters who put away their chances to leave the Skegness girls wondering what they had to do to stop them. Skegness had their moments during the match with perhaps their best quarter being the last one which they won by a single goal. A final score line of meant the Monks Dyke girls were worthy champions.

The Y9 netball match was again slow to get off the ground with only one goal the difference between the two sides at end of the first quarter. Caistor then decided to up their game and with some quite outstanding shooting took an unassailable lead from there on in. Skegness at times dominated the centre court but circle play both in defence and attack could not quite match the quality of play from the Caistor girls.

Caistor have also won a place in the County U14 Netball finals on Saturday so we wish them luck in their attempt to be County Champions.

A fantastic time was had by all who attended this Caistor and De Aston cluster tennis tournament for year 3 and year 4 children.

The event was organised by Joy and John Purkiss and held at the fantastic facilities of Tealby Tennis Club.

Trained leaders from Caistor Grammar and De Aston schools officiated. Even the weather was superb.

Teams consisted of 2 girls and 2 boys who were seeded and played the appropriate seeds from all other schools.

Schools competing were Osgodby, Kelsey, Market Rasen, Grasby and Legsby.

The competition was tight with games scored up to 10 points.

The overall winners came from Kelsey School who won 17 matches and will progress through to the County round later on in the year.

It was so close that the 3 teams who came 2nd all winning 11 matches could not be separated even when counting back to the number of individual points won (a massive 153)!

These teams were Grasby, Legsby and Osgodby Green.

With their sights on a place in the County Final footballers from North Cockerington, Holton le Clay, St. Michaels, Lacey Gardens and Theddlethorpe converged on the tranquil setting of the London Road ground in Louth on a warm October afternoon.

Immaculate pitches and spectator support made for some excellent, hard fought games which ran to the wire as the results from the last game played determined the winners in both sections.

Lacey Gardens girls were unbeaten winners although a goal in the final minute of the last game of the day secured them the win.

Holton le Clay boys only needed a draw from their last match to clinch the trophy but the oppositon from North Cockerington proved the stronger team and Holton went down 2-1 leaving St. Michaels to win the league by one point and therefore go to represent the Wolds School Sport Partnership at the County Finals.

The County Finals will be held at Burgh le Marsh on 30th January 2010 (boys) and 6th February 2010 (girls)

In glorious October sunshine eight teams of boys from the Coastal and Wolds and Lincoln and Gainsborough Super Zones competed for places in the County Finals. 

The teams were split into two leagues each playing the other with the winners of these leagues going through to the grand final play off. 

Cordeaux played some excellent rugby in the league section resulting in the boys clinching the top spot and progressing to the final.  Here they met their match in the team from LSST Lincoln.  The 3-0 scoreline did not however reflect the Cordeaux youngsters determined play.  Their attack was superb and tries were denied only by a strong LSST defence and speed on the turn over. Bearing in mind Cordeaux has 500 on role to LSST 1300 the accomplishment by these lads was fantastic. 

We wish them well in the County Final. Other teams from our Super Zone taking part were De Aston and Queen Elizabeths Horncastle.

James has created an initial list of the many Sports Clubs in our Partnership areas and this is accessible by clicking on the resources tab on our home page, then opening the Find a Sports Club tab and finally click on Club Database. This database is constantly being update and we will endeavour to provide the most up to date version under our resources tab.

James is contactable on 01507 601111 or 07880 780380 or by email james.turner@e-lindsey.gov.uk

We wish James luck in his new post and hope our local clubs will benefit from his expertise and that many of our children will continue their favourite activity or indeed experience new ones outside of school.

The year 7 girls from Caistor won all their games, albeit by only one rounder in the last match against a strong Sleaford High School team. This left the spectators on a knife edge as with just three balls to go one rounder was required to clinch the silverware.

With some strategic placing of the ball and superb sprinting the Caistor girls managed the win with a ball to spare.

Horncastle had two teams through to the final - representing year 8 and year 9. This final should have taken place in July but due to rain the event was postponed to what turned out to be a gloriously hot September.

The weather was a positive for Horncastle but unfortunately the year 9 team was depleted somewhat by other activities taking place which some of the squad had to attend. Nevertheless the team pulled together and played some excellent rounders and finished third overall. The strength of the year 8 team however over awed the opposition and the girls came away worthy winners.

We look forward to seeing the year 7 and year 8 girls defend their trophy in the summer term.