Rain doesn’t stop play at Tennis Finals

The top four primary schools from South Cambs came together for the SSP Year 3/4 Tennis Finals night on Monday 13th June. With the rain pouring down as schools arrived the competition was swiftly moved indoors to the sportshall and played with sponge balls.

The teams of two boys and two girls from Meldreth, Haslingfield, Linton Heights & Harston & Newton made it to the finals as the top teams from the qualification rounds played last month. All of the teams had done extremely well to make it to the finals in a competition involving over 30 teams.

The finals were played in a round robin format with each team playing the other three in timed singles matches. As expected the matches were extremely competitive with a great standard of tennis on display and some really close scores.

The final round of matches were tense with 3 teams still in with a chance of claiming the title of SSP Champions. The Haslingfield team kept up their strong play though to earn a 3-1 victory over Linton Heights which gave them 9 wins from 12 and earn them the title of SSP Champions for a second year running.

Meldreth Primary School managed to hold Harston & Newton to a 2-2 draw in their final match which meant Harston & Newton had to settle for the runners up position with 7 wins from 12.

Linton finished in 3rd with 6 wins and Meldreth 4th with 2 wins.

The teams from Haslingfield and Harston & Newton will now go forward to represent South Cambs SSP at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough County School Games Summer Festival on 30th June in St Ives, we wish them the best of luck.