Girls we have organised a friendly match against Dromore High school on Thursday 9th March.
Get changed at lunch time and come to games as normal but get warmed up as soon as possible in order for the match to start at 2pm.
GS Bethany Nixon
GA Katie Cartmill
WA Lynsey Orr
C Ellie Wright / Gabriella Bennett
WD Aoife McNally
GD Annabelle Kelly
GK Suzy Neil
Girls we have organised a friendly match against Dromore High School on Monday 6th March. Get changed at lunch time. Please excuse yourselves from class Period 7 and get warmed up for the match to start at 2pm.
Hannah Spence
Charlie Daniels
Zara Ginniff
Annie Robinson
Zeta Gley
Alex Finney
Katie Baxter
Nadia Radcliffe
Emily Johnston
Rachel Macauley
Please let Miss Adair know if you are unable to play!
Congrats to our Year 8 girls who won their very first match against Dromore High School on Friday! A fantastic win (26-13) with all girls taking the court and playing some really great netball! Lots of potential for the future…. well done girls!!
Miss Adair 🙂
Girls we have a friendly match against Dromore HS on Friday 24th Feb.
Please get changed at lunch time (full tracksuit) and excuse yourselves from class period 7 for match to start at 2pm.
GK Lauren Kelly / Keira McQuaid
GD Emily Cordner / Lara Crothers
WD Oliveen O’Rourke / Sarah Hanna
C Selena Cunningham / Sarah-Rose McElroy
WA Natalie Hale / Brooke Gilliland
GA Lois Ginniff / Carolyn Grossman / Emilie Williamson
GS Ellie Lindsay / Julia Herron / Catherine |Black / Sasha Herron
Please speak to Miss Adair if you are unable to play.
On Wednesday 1st February, the Senior girls competed in the NI Plate Quarter Finals against Wallace High School. The match took place at Lisburn Racquets club and it was a great achievement for the girls to have reached this stage, after being unable to play in the SELB League Final due to internal examinations.
With Zara Sloan starting in Centre, Sarah McCandless in Wing Attack and Jessica Thompson in Goal Attack, the team had a very strong attacking line up. Gemma Hassan played Goal Shooter, doing an excellent job (as the only Year 11 on this Senior team).
Our defence was just as strong; Zoe Bond started in Wing Defence, and Jodi McDade (player of the match) and Emma Boyd remaining in Goal Defence and Goal Keeper throughout the four quarters. The match was steady and a very tight score was kept throughout the quarters, with substitutions being made throughout the team.
Aimèe Dickson took over in Centre while Zara Sloan moved to Wing Attack for one quarter, with great attack kept up by both. Louise Priestley played out of position (GA), moving between Wing Attack and Wing Defence displaying her versatility and her exceptional efforts to get the ball to our side.
Overall an outstanding performance by each and every player, with a final score of 25-20 to Wallace High School. Such an amazing achievement, though the girls were unlucky on this occasion and should be very proud to have made it this far as a team. A huge thanks to Mrs Lawther for her continuous commitment to the girls and special thanks to Miss Adair for all her time and effort. Well done everyone.
Banbridge Academy hosts the annual year 9 Netball tournament kindly sponsored by SHOEFAIR SPORTS.
Local schools involved were Dromore HS, Banbridge HS, Killicomaine JHS, Tandragre JHS and St Malachys Castlewellan (all competed against Banbridge Academy’s A and B teams.)
After a number of tightly contested matches, Banbridge Academy A team, by way of a play-off against Tandragee JHS, came through to play Dromore HS in the final.
After a tight and hard fought first half, Banbridge Academy picked up the pace in the second half to be crowned champions!!
Minors A match report
Blitz Tournament
The first match against our very own B team, was fast moving with the final score 13-1 to BA A .
In the next match against Dromore HS we weren’t as lucky!! It was a good match with great defence from Hannah, Heather and Leah but unfortunately Dromore ended up winning 4-2. BA A next match was against Tandragee, this was a very tight game with great play from both sides but BA A kept up their game and won 5-3.
Banbridge HS played us next, this was a very exciting game with great goals from Nadia and Emily and very good mid court play keeping the ball mostly in our third, the final result was 8-2 to BA A.
BA A next match was against St Malachys, we had great defence from Annie especially, rarely letting the ball past the centre third, the final result was 7-0 to BA A.
BA A weren’t as fortunate in the next match vs Killicomaine but still managed to keep the score at a draw of 3-3.
BA A were at a draw with Tandragee so there was a play off to see who would make it to the final, everyone was very nervous and felt the tension but after the first few goals we all settled down and managed to win 5-1.
The final was a great game against Dromore HS, Dromore got the first two goals but BA came back with the score of 7-2 by half time, excellent pressure was put on Dromore’s shooters by Charlie and Zara leaving the final score at 14-2 to BA A , great result girls!
Good Luck ladies in our Quarter Finals today Wednesday 1st February against Wallace HS. This is going to be a challenge so dig deep!!
Black kits, prompt practice beginning of games, Depart 2.45, Return 5.15/30pm
Rebecca Henry
Louise Priestly
Amy Peacock
Zara Sloan
Amy Dickson
Jodi McDade
Emma Boyd
Gemma Hassan
Zoe Bond
Sarah McCandless
Jessica Thompson
Victoria Orr
Ladies can you please ensure that you are available to play our Quarter Final Plate match against Wallace!!
WEDNESDAY 1st FEBRUARY
Venue LISBURN RACQUETS
Time 3.30 start
Depart 2.50pm
Return 5.15pm approximately
Congratulations ladies, you have competed successfully to secure your place in the SELB League Finals. This is a wonderful achievement so a big round of applause to each and every one of you!!
This takes place on Thursday 19th January. It is a day of celebration in which the successful schools in Minor, Junior, Intermediate and Senior teams compete. Unfortunately due to our internal examinations and after many efforts both within school and the NI Netball Committee we are unable to attend. In our absence we wish the other competing schools every success.
Seniors please keep an eye on the blog for an update with regards to our Quarter Final NI Plate match. It is hoped we can play this on Wednesday 1st February.
So until then ladies good luck with your exams.
