KES Cricket Week
KES played their annual cricket week in fantastic weather, recording 3 victories out of 4, only losing to the Old Edwardians.
The highlight of Cricket Week was a memorable 8 wicket victory against the MCC. A weakened KES bowling line up saw MCC score 300-4 at more than a run a ball, however, a school record unbeaten 238 run partnership won the match for KES.
The match winners were Captain Will Collier who scored his maiden century in all forms of cricket (104* off 89 balls) and Sam Mount who scored his third consecutive hundred (124* off 131 balls). Their match winning partnership came from only 214 balls.
There were also wins against Yarra Valley from Melbourne Australia, and the XL 40 Club. Yarra Valley scored 201 all out, with the wickets shared around but opening batsman Olly Metcalfe (83 not out) saw KES home by 5 wickets.
In a similar game, XL 40 Club scored 211 all out and again Metcalfe was the star scoring his maiden century sharing a partnership of 139 with Will Collier (68 not out) to win the match by 8 wickets. Metcalfe finished on 108 not out.
Cricket Week finishes off another successful season for KES senior cricket, unbeaten in T20 cricket in Bath for the third year running. Sam Mount scored 663 runs at an average of 74 and topped the bowling with 18 wickets at 19. Captain Will Collier finished off his school career scoring his 1000th run for the first team.
England Hockey select KES student
King Edward’s School student Eugene Malthouse has been selected to represent the England U18 hockey squad.
Malthouse, who was captain of KES 1st XI hockey team this season and a member of Bath Buccs 1st Xi National League side, will join the England squad on Wednesday to play a three test match series in Germany this weekend. On returning from Germany the KES superstar is then scheduled to travel to Ireland to play in the Home Nations Tournament later this month.
Malthouse, who will earn his 1st international cap this weekend, will also play a key role in England’s short corner attack as their number one drag flick specialist.
Louisa Gwilliam, Director of Sport at King Edward’s School, commented that “Eugene Malthouse is first KES student to play hockey for England and his selection is just reward for all of his hard work and effort over recent years. He is a credit to the school and we wish him every success this summer.”
Pretty in pink Race for Life
Pupils, staff and mums from King Edward’s dressed in pink and ran, jogged or walked in the Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
The Race for Life took place on Sunday 6th June on a 5km track around the University of Bath. Over 3,000 people took part in the event, with over fifty girls from KES, including KES mum Angela Mount, whose battle with the disease has inspired her to set up her own charity Rose for Life. Angela took part with her six-year-old daughter Ellie from the Pre-Prep.
There were two races, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Over 30 year pupils from the Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior School, along with parents, friends and teachers ran, jogged or walked the course in the afternoon, and 4 members of the KES community finished in the top four places, amazing effort everyone, well done!
Mrs Lindsay – 1st place
Mrs Wilson – 2nd place
Maddy Awan – 3rd place
Molly Buxton – 4th place
The Race for Life is a really unique event because it is the largest all-female fundraising event in the UK. Many of the participants have either battled cancer themselves or know somebody who has.
Wendy Bedeman, Sixth Form tutor from King Edward’s Senior School, who went with a group of girls from the sixth form, commented:
“The atmosphere was fantastic, everyone came dressed up and it was such good fun. You don’t have to race if you don’t want to, you can walk or jog, so you don’t have to worry about training for the event. It’s a good feeling to help other people and to collect funds for Cancer Research.”
For more information about the Race for Life go to www.raceforlife.org.
50th Anniversary of Ten Tors
The weather on
King Edward’s School teams took part at all three distances.
The 45 mile team walked for 13½ hours non-stop on Day 1, going through their 8th tor a few minutes before it closed at 8:00pm, and continuing on through the dark to their 9th tor. They set off walking at 6 o’clock on Sunday morning and were one of the first two teams to cross the finishing line at 7:34. Though Ten Tors is not a race, this is one of the fastest completions of the 45 mile expedition ever, and is a testimony to the fitness of the whole team, and their first-rate navigation skills.
The team were :
Robert Wilcox (team leader)
James Plumstead
Jon Tracy
Ben Smith
Mark Humphreys
The 35 mile team also had a long day. They navigated their way confidently around a long, tough route on the northern part of the moor to reach their 8th tor where they had to camp. They set off walking again at 6 o’clock, and were the first team to complete their route.
The team were :
Merlin Hetherington (team leader)
Cameron Davies
George Widdowson
Georgie Phillips
Rebekah Chapman
David Galazin
To complete any of these expeditions requires great determination, but the hardest of the lot must be the 55 mile route. The KES team on this year’s 55 mile route was one of the fittest and most experienced the school has ever put in. They walked well to complete the first third of their route by early afternoon on Saturday, when one member of the team was forced to retire from the expedition due to hypothermia. After being delayed by over an hour, the remaining 5 members of the team continued on to reach the foot of their 7th tor by nightfall, leaving a massive distance to cover on the Sunday. They were up and walking at 5 o’clock on the Sunday morning, and walked for nearly 12 hours, to complete the 55 miles of their expedition with just 40 minutes to spare.
The team were :
Louis Bougeard (team leader)
Peter Medhurst
Nora Spicer
Conor Sloan
Kier McDonald
KES T20 Bath Champions for the 3rd Year running
Congratulations to the T20 team that continue their impressive record of results in this format versus teams from Bath and Bristol. Since the competition started three years ago, KES have now played 9 and won 9. The only game KES have lost in 3 years was against Kings Taunton, who went on to become eventual National winners last year.
Semi Final v Prior Park: KES 165-6 beat PP 125-8 by 40 runs.
Having got off to a brisk start, the match winning partnership was from Will Collier (66 from 46 balls) and Olly Metcalfe (36 from 32). Their 4th wicket stand of 79 in 57 balls set up the total of 165. Prior were never really in the hunt and lost wickets regularly. Metcalfe started the ball rolling with the key wicket of Seth Tapsfield caught at slip for 1, but Rupert Morgan finished off any hopes they had with the key spell of 4-0-25-3 in the middle overs.
Final v Kingswood: KES 195-3 beat KW 140-9 by 55 runs.
KES won the toss and batted first for the second time in the day. Losing Will Wales early brought Sam Mount to the crease and for the next 60 minutes it was carnage. Starting off with a partnership of 71 off 8 overs with Collier (35 off 23) and then 89 off the next 7.4 overs with Nick Green (19 off 20), Sam Mount crushed Kingswood hopes with controlled hitting and intelligent placement.His first 50 came up off 29 balls, his hundred 24 balls later. Hitting the last 4 balls for 6,4,6,6 Mount finished on 115 not out off 55 balls.
The Kingswood reply would be built around Harry Rouse who had scored a quickfire 100 in the semi final. Again Metcalfe got the first wicket and Rouse came to the crease and promptly hit his first 2 balls for 4. However in the next 5 overs KES set excellent fields and bowled good areas to restrict Rouse to only facing 3 more balls. By the time he faced his 6th ball the run rate was up to 12 an over and he was caught by a diving Will Collier off Rupert Morgan to effectively end the match. With KES having the luxury of trying out different bowling options, Kingswood eventually limped to 140-9 at 20 overs. Oli Metcalfe (2-25) and Rupert Morgan (2-28) the pick of the figures.
KES now play the winners of the Bristol and Gloucestershire groups in the last 32. Kings Taunton/Millfield will play the winners, and the last 4 will be played at Lords on June 28th in a round robin.
Congratulations to the whole squad and to Mr McComish, Head of Cricket and 1st team Coach.
