14th March

Hockey

The U16 team played Trent in the Midlands Final. A poor start left us 1-0 down after 2 minutes. After that we dominated in all areas and eventually the pressure told when Joel Dudley scored from a penalty corner. Near the end of the first half Alex Hollway scored a reverse stick shot, but then a couple of unforced errors allowed Trent to equalise just before the break. Early in the second half we soaked up a lot of pressure but did concede one goal. The score remained 3-2 in Trent’s favour until 5 minutes from the end, where a well worked corner resulted in Joel Dudley scoring again. As the game came to a close, the dreaded penalties loomed. After the first barrage of 5, the score was 4-4. So to sudden death where Aden Symonds and Jack Eastgate calmly scored and with Trent’s next flick, Matthew Cox made an excellent stick save to make us Midlands Champions.

The U14 team also played in the Midlands Final against Trent College. Some fine individual performances could not prevent us from losing 2-0.

Matches versus Repton School
U16A – Won 4-2
U15B – Won 2-0
U14A – Won 1-0
U14C – Won 4-3
2nds – Lost 2-3
U16B – Lost 0-9
U15A – Lost 1-2
U14B – Lost 2-4

The 1st XI beat Malvern College 19-2. 5 goals from Lenny Beeck, 4 from Constantin Illies, and hat tricks from Niran Chana and Thomas Koch.

 Football
The football teams played their block fixture against Marlborough College. The 1st XI and 2nd XI conceded last minute goals as they both suffered 2-1 defeats but the best result of the day went to the U16A’s who recorded an excellent 4-2 victory.

The 1st XI travelled to Oundle to compete in the semi-finals of the Crusader Cup where they met a very competitive Oundle side. Although Bromsgrove battled well and an equalising goal from Alex Morris dragged them back into the game, the final score was 2-1 to Oundle.

Rugby Sevens
North of England 7s
Bromsgrove School 1st VII headed to the North of England Schools 7's on March 2. Bromsgrove had tough wins in their pool against Wilmslow and Sedbergh 'B' but had comfortable victories over Audenshaw and Liverpool College. Unfortunately Bromsgrove were knocked out in the quarter finals by eventual winners Kirkham Grammar.

Cambridge 7s
Bromsgrove 1st VII travelled to compete in the Cambridge 7's. In just 3.5 hours, Bromsgrove beat Colchester Grammar, The Leys Cambridge, King's School Ely, West Suffolk College and Trent College on their way to the final where they unfortunately lost to a very strong Wilmslow team. Jack Pons received the player of the tournament award.

Swimming
Boys’ Senior House swimming
1st Elmshurst
2nd Wendron Gordon
3rd Lyttleton

Netball
The 1st team continued their  unbeaten run on Saturday with a convincing 38-18 victory against Trent College. There were also wins for the 2nd team (23-13), 15B, 14A and 14B teams.

In a match versus Hereford 6th Form College the 1st team won 27-17

Cross Country
In the last league match at Wellingborough the Junior boys team finished 5th, with good runs from Marcus Thompson-Smith and Andrew Polychronakis. This result meant the team finished 2nd overall in the league.

House 1.2 relays
Girls’ race
1st Thomas Cookes
2nd Hazeldene
3rd Oakley

Boys’ Race
1st Walters
2nd Lyttleton
3rd Elmshurst

Basketball
This year's U16 basketball team have become the first squad to reach the County Cup final in each of their 3 years in the school. They beat Nunnery Wood 74-35.

Squash
A mixed Bromsgrove School team took on a boys’ team from Solihull School and some very competitive squash was played.  Most notable for her spirited performance was Alice Walters whose match went right down to the wire, just losing 10/9 in the final game.  There were also fine matches from Josh Hutchings who played twice and won twice and Ben Coombs who came from behind through dogged determination against a very good opponent. The whole team are to be praised for their commitment and congratulated for a fine win, 6 matches to 3, an excellent result.

29 February

Hockey
The Under 14 Cup side Beat Bridgnorth Endowed School by 4-0 in the Semi final of the Midlands Cup.

In the Under 16 Cup side the school beat Oakham School 3-0 in the Semi final of the Midlands Cup. Due to a Midlands side winning the National title last year, 2 sides from the Midlands represent at National finals. (This means that this is only the second boys’ outdoor side to qualify for the National finals in the History of the school.) Congratulations to both Under 14 and Under 16 teams.

In the matches versus Dean Close the 1st team had a convincing win 5 – 1.
The 2nd Team also with a won 6-1 with 5 goals from Dominic Wall.
U16 A won 3-2
U14 A team drew 1-1
U16 B side lost 0-3
U15A team lost 1-4
U15B team lost 0-2
U14B team lost 0-3
On Wednesday the 1st XI beat Solihull School 6-1

Football
Last Saturday the football teams played a tough block fixture against strong Oundle sides. The Under 16A’s played extremely well against Oundle’s strongest team to draw 2-2 whilst the 1st XI continued their winning ways in a 3-2 victory..

The 1st XI again preformed well in comfortably beating Wellbeck College 2-0 in the quarter final of the Crusader Cup. Goal scorers Edward Jones and Josh Radford.

Rugby Sevens
The Senior Sevens squad competed in their first tournament of the year on Sunday.  They reached the semi-finals of the Marches 7's in Hereford beating Dean Close, Bristol Grammar School, St. Edward's Oxford, Filton College before losing to the eventual winners - Millfield.

Swimming
Last Thursday the boys' swimming squad competed against Loughborough Grammar School. Entering the last race of the gala scores were even. Unfortunately Loughborough pipped us on the U18 freestyle relay meaning we lost a very close gala 72-70.

Netball
Last week was another good week for our netball teams. On Thursday there were victories for the 15B, 15C, 14A and 14B teams against Cheltenham College and on Saturday we played against Wrekin College – easily our strongest senior opposition in recent times.  Without a 1st team victory against Wrekin for at least 5 years the girls knew they were in for a tough match, however, the team pulled together superbly well and produced an outstanding performance to win 28-24, with Cat Allan showing some cool shooting under pressure.  There were also excellent victories for the 15A and 14A teams.  
On Wednesday the 1st VII had a good win beating Hereford 6th form College 45 -13 a team that they had drawn with in the Michaelmas term.

Cross Country
The third cross country league race was held at Wollaton Park in Nottingham on Saturday. Although the senior boys did not have a full complement of runners, the Colts finished second out of six, and the girls third out of four teams participating.

The fastest Bromsgrove runners in their respective races were Jo Smith in 6th, Andrew Polychronakis in 11th and Takayoshi Inufusa in 27th position.

House Cross Country
Junior Boys
Team
3rd Wendron Gordon
2nd Lupton
1st  Lyttleton

Individual
3rd William Packwood
2nd Tom Silk
1st  Aden Symonds

Senior Boys
Team
3rd Lyttleton
2nd Elmshurst
1st  Walters

Individual
3rd Philip Kratsov
2nd Ben Cox
1st  Jonathan Webb

Girls Race
Team
2nd = Housman Hall
2nd = Hazeldene
1st  Thomas Cookes

Individual
3rd Sophie Bales
2nd Jo Smith
1st Becky Phillips

Basketball
Our under 19s bowed out of this year's National competition with some distinction to East Midlands first seeds Burleigh College on their court but not before challenging them all the way. Burliegh scored a three pointer in the last second to win the match 55-53.

22nd  February

Hockey
Rachel Mack played for England U16’s at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester over half term. The team won three games out of three against Ireland.

Football
Just before the half-term break, the 1st XI managed to maintain their 100% record in the Crusader Cup with a 4-2 victory over St Edwards with Phil Johnson scoring an excellent hat-trick; this sets up a home quarter-final tie against Welbeck College. On Wednesday the team gave an impressive performance to win comfortably against St Michael’s School, Tenbury, with three goals from Warren Leung, two from Tom Smith and one from Michael Palmer.

Fencing
Stephen Edgar competesthis weekend in the Junior Home International as a member of the England under 18 Epee team.

Cross Country
Becky Phillips attained a silver medal in the under 17 girls category when she recently competed in the Herefordshire and Worcestershire cross country championships . She will now go on to represent the county at the English schools championships in Liverpool in March.

Basketball
Bromsgrove under 19s today reached the county final by gaining revenge over St Augustines School Redditch who beat us earlier in the season. The final score 80-70.
The under 14s beat Bewdley High School 42-41 in the County Cup quarter final. Harry Capewell wsa the top scorer with 24 points.

8th February

Football
Bromsgrove became the first team to reach the quarter final stages of the Crusader Cup after completing the third of three victories in the group stages against St. Edwards, Oxford. A hat-trick from vice-captain Phil Johnson and one from Warren Leung gave Bromsgrove a 4-2 victory and winning the group gives the 1st XI home advantage in the quarter finals.http://www.habsboys.org.uk/sport/football/crusader08.asp

Football
With the weather causing havoc amongst most fixtures this weekend, it was pleasing that the 1st and 2nd XI games against King's Worcester went ahead albeit under difficult conditions. The 2nd's game was their debut match in the Mercian Combination League for Independent Schools 2nd XI's and they got off to a winning start with a 4-3 victory, with goals from Tom Lilley, Warren Leung and two from Brian Li.

The 1st XI game once again saw Bromsgrove start slowly in the difficult conditions and they were fortunate to lead 1-0 at half time with a goal from Yujin Kitigawa. The second half saw a much better performance and a penalty from Phil Johnson adding to a good headed goal from Ed Jones allowed them to grab victory and jump to the top of the Mercian Independent Schools League on goal difference.