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Two sets of boys National Hockey finals (placed third in both), a win in the Abedare Cup (tennis) round 2, 9 tennis fixtures against Uppingham (winning 6), athletics v Trent and four games of cricket v Oakham (2 wins, 2 loses). A 1st XI hundred (140 not out) and 20/20 cricket in the HMC competition on Sunday. What a week's work!

We are back in session for the Summer term. A busy day had with a full programe of cricket, tennis and athletics. Around 30 school teams will be fielded throughout the term in various sports and we still have the National U18 Boys Hockey Finals to play for, and U14 and U16 play off games for a place in the Nationals. 11 busy weeks! 

The competition to qualify for such an event is extremely high but after only 6 months at Repton, this team managed it. Drawn in a group of 9 schools, our U14a team found the going unsurprisingly tough, and finished 7th in the group. This meant a place in the country's top 15 schools for netball at U14 level. A superb effort.

Repton's U14 and U18 girls will compete to secure Repton's 12th National Hockey title, and the 10th in the last 6 years over the next three days. All results will be published below as soon as possible after each game is completed.

U18 GIRLS NATIONAL FINALS

THURSDAY 3RD MARCH

1255     Repton   2 - 1   Cheadle Hulme (Siebert 2)

1730     Repton  8 - 0  Arnold School (Mumby 3, Leigh 2, Siebert 1, Peters 1, Byas 1)

FRIDAY 4TH MARCH

1210     Repton  2 - 2  Millfield School (Mumby, Rogers)

1600     FINAL. Repton 2-3 Kingston GS (Leigh, Siebert)

Repton finish runners up in National Finals, ending six year run as National Champions.

U14 GIRLS NATIONAL FINALS

WEDNESDAY 2ND MARCH

REPTON ARE GIRLS U14 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

For SJC's report on the day, please click here.

GROUP STAGES

1050     Repton  1 -  1 King's, Canterbury    (Buckland)

1245     QES Kirby  0 - 3  Repton    (Sanders 3)

1425     Repton   1 - 1  St George's College (Potter)

NATIONAL FINAL

1545    Repton    3 - 1    Arnold School (Chantler, Sanders 2)

The Lawn Tennis Association have, for the first time produced an end of year ranking for schools based on performaces across all National Competitions. We are very pleased to have been ranked 3rd from all schools in the UK in the girls competitions.

Despite there being no inter-school fixtures this weekend with the majority of schools being in half term, the inter-house competitions made sure that over 200 pupils were in action with the senior and junior house hockey, and senior A and senior B team netball competitions running.

All three boys hockey teams (U18, U16, U14) have made it through to the Midllands Hockey Finals after the U18 and U16 teams won their Midland Zone Rounds, and the U14 team were runners up.

The Girls U14 and U18 team will play in the Narional Finals on 2nd/3rd/4th March at Cannock HC, Staffordshire. Details here: http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/competitions.asp?section=319§ionTitle=National+Schools+Championships+for+Girls

Sam Graham, Oli West and Josh Miller all represented the Independent Schools Football Association against Wales Schools in half term. All three will aim for selection in the England Independent School's team to face Scotland Schools in May. 

On the first weekend of half term, the 1st XI girl's hockey team qualified again for the National Finals, aiming to win their seventh successive National title. They beat Trent College 1-0 in the Midlands Final to be Midlands Champions for the ninth year in succession. The National Finals are at Cannock HC on 3rd and 4th March and we are grouped with Cheadle Hulme, Millfield and Arnold School.

On the first day back today, the U16 boys won their Midlands Zone after beating Meole Brace and Queen Mary's, Walsall, then drawing with Rugby School 2-2 in the last game. Repton won the event on goal difference and this sends them through to the Midlands Finals on Friday 18th March.

The U18 (at Repton) and U14 boys (at Beeston HC) play their zone rounds later this week.

This could have been one of the busiest days of the term so far. All three of our boys hockey teams (U18, U16, U14) qualified for the Midlands Zone rounds after the county finals today. The 1st XI began their defence of their National Title won last April.

The girls had a full block fixture against Rugby School, with 13 netball teams in action. The 1st VII were the pick of the bunch with a very comprehensive 40-19 win.

Over 160 pupils were in action today alone for the schools teams, over a quarter of the pupil body..

Also in the news... U6th pupil Johnny Gorman is again selected by Northern Ireland in the squad for the senior international against Scotland next week.

In an extraordinary double, our U14 netball team have reached the National finals after being runners up in the East Midlands Regional tournament today. This follows the victory of our U14 girls hockey team in the Midlands Championships last week, qualifying for the nationals here also.

To be in the country's top ten schools in two sports certainly tells us this is a talented year group!

We are delighted to say that Sam Boyle (4L) has been selected to be part of the GB development Fencing squad for a tour to Bratislavia. Congratulations, Sam.

The U18 Girls beat Millfield 5-1 in the National Indoor Championship Final over the weekend to retain this National title. The school has now won 11 National hockey titles since 1995.

After being placed runners-up in the group on goal difference, a semi final win after a tough game against Cooper's Coborn set up a final between two powerhouses of schools hockey in recent times. After taking a 5-0 lead, Repton coasted to victory with a Wiz Mumby hat-trick and two trademark Becky Siebert drag flick corners.

The semi final and final were superb performances both in terms of tactics and total commitment to winning these games. Captain Jo Leigh lifted the trophy and for the second year running this indoor title made its way to Repton.

The netball teams got their season off to a good start, winning 8 out of the 10 games against Trent College. Three teams (1st VII, 16a, 14a) will prepare this week for the Midlands regional finals this Saturday.