Sport report: week beginning Mon 28^th April

The College 1^st XI cricket team opened their season with a narrow 2 run loss to Rougemont School last Wednesday.  In spite of all the damp weather, Llandovery mastered the conditions and took full advantage of a sticky wicket to bowl the opposition out for 76 runs.  Only the previous week the Rougemont captain had struck a century in a victory over Christ College.  Captain John Thorley and year 9 debutant Joe Morgan took the lion’s share of the wickets.  Morgan took 3 for 12 off 4 overs.  The wicket keeping of Jaen Botes and all round fielding of the team was top notch.

 
However with the wicket deteriorating and the opposition bowlers playing with unerring accuracy the total proved difficult to reach.  Captain John Thorley fell early and then the tightest of run outs for Ceitho Annwyl Williams proved our undoing at the top of the innings.  Josh Basey held the innings together, but with wickets falling at regular intervals we lost the last man just 2 runs short.  It was nailbiting stuff.  The team played together in an excellent spirit and can go no doubt go on to good things this term.  Added discipline in the Llandovery batting will be a must against Christ College on Wednesday.

The following pupils took part:

Junior girls Relay: Bethan Hope–Bell, Ellie Hamer, Hanna Campbell and Gwenii Rees Evans. The team finished 4^th overall.

Middle Girls Relay: Angharad Davies, Sian Hardy, Izzy Pemble and Jess John. The team finished 3^rd.

Middle Boys Relay: Luke Morgan, George Howlett, James Davies and Mickey.

The team did under 50seconds and won their heat, finishing an excellent 3^rd overall with less than a second separating them all.

Senior Boys A team: Neil Davies, Tom Driver, Richard Read and Nicky Williams.

Senior Boys B team: Luke Morgan, James Davies, Tom E James and Jason Ronowitz.

We were the only school to have entered two teams. The A team finished 2^nd and the B team finishing 3^rd, again less than a second separating the first three.

800m.
Junior Girls race: Hanna Campbell finished an excellent 4^th, Bethan Hope Bell, Ellie Hamer and Gwenii Rees Evans also ran well.

Middle Girls saw Angharad Davies run superb again winning the race in 2:28:00

Neil Davies had a superb run in the Senior Boys race finishing 4^th in an excellent time of 2:20:00

Well done to all who took part.

Brianne Athletics is taking place on May 15^th, anyone interested in taking part please come and see NE. Seniors will automatically go through to the Dyfed Championships.