Private School News

Medals galore at Bow, Durham School

Following on from the successes of the Bow, Durham School U11 rugby squad, who finished runners up in the Terrington School 7‘s Tournament and the U9 football team’s triumphant win at the Woodleigh Tournament, comes the win at the HMC North Eastern Division U11 7-a-side Football Tournament on Thursday 5 March 2009.

16 teams entered this prestigious tournament held at Hymers College, Hull. This was an unknown situation for the boys from Bow, Durham School who had never entered a tournament of this size, or played against such large schools, previously. The format was 4 groups of 4 teams with the top 2 moving forward into the Cup competition which in turn was 2 groups of 4 teams. At the end of these group games the winners of each group would contest the final.

Bow got off to a flying start in their qualifying group beating Barlborough 2-1, with both goals coming from Daniel Marsh, and then toppling the mighty Leeds GS with a Jed Howey shot from long range. Their last game saw a little hiccup as they lost by a solitary goal to Silicoates leaving them runners up in the group.

The main Cup group started with a hard fought goalless draw with RGS Newcastle before further Daniel Marsh goals saw great 1-0 victories against Birkdale and Hymers. This was enough to send us into the final against Yarm. At the end of a pulsating match, which could have gone either way, neither side was able to break the deadlock and the game ended goalless. With both sides exhausted the organisers felt it only right that the trophy be shared by both schools. This was an outstanding achievement by the boys from Bow, Durham School. The squad was James Elliot(captain), James Holmes, Alasdair Denby, Jed Howey, Luke Henderson, Daniel Marsh, James Ward, Ben Langthorne and Will Rogers.