Histon Brook take the netball finals by storm!

The end of our 2025 netball leagues finished yesterday in the sunshine after our plate finals at Northstowe Seconday College . The finals are the culmination of a year round league which is hosted at 7 secondary school sites across South Cambs with Round 1 matches in October and Round 2 in March. The recent finals involved 37 teams from different schools with over 300 pupils playing netball and all matches being umpired by a team of over 40 sports leaders from the Partnerships Leadership Academy programme.

B Team Finals

The first of the finals nights was for all of the B teams who had played in their local leagues. This final took place at Comberton Village College with 15 teams competing against each other. After the first round of matches the teams were organised into different divisions for the finals. In the top division were Swavesey, Histon Brook, Trumpington and Hardwick.  The standard of netball across all of the courts was excellent and the feedback from the event was very positive from all who took part. After a round of competitive and close matches, Histon Brook school took the overall B team title with Swavesey primary school finishing in second place. The overall finishing positions from all schools from the B tournament were:

A team Plate Finals

The A team finals are split into two competitions the Plate and the shield. The plate is for all of the A teams who finished in the second half of their local league. Played at Northstowe Secondary College this featured 9 teams. All of the teams played each other in a round robin format and despite the hot temperature the level of netball from all courts was excellent. The sports leaders from Northstowe SC umpired all the matches using the skills they have developed from being part of the leadership academy. After a display of excellent netball across all of the courts the overall winners where Jeavons Wood who only lost one game across the whole afternoon and in second place (only 2 points behind the winners) were Girton Glebe school. Both teams were presented with medals to recognise their achievement. Well done to all schools who took part. The final plate positions were:

A team Shield finals

Thirteen primary schools competed in the A Team Shield which was held at Comberton Village College after finishing in the top half of their local leagues. The top four teams from this competition qualify for the BEE Netball County Finals which are taking place on Wednesday 21st May at St Ives.

The schools were split into three pools, with each team playing all of their rivals within that group to determine whether they qualified into Division 1, 2 or 3 for the next round of matches.

The standard of netball across all of the teams was exceptionally high and it was great to see the level of improvement from all teams across the rounds, especially with their shooting accuracy.

After the first round of matches, it was Swavesey, Histon Brook, The Vine School and Coton who went into pool 1 to play for the title. It was an extremely close competition, but the accurate shooting of Histon Brook primary school meant that they finished as winners of the competition. All of the games were played in great spirit and the sports leaders from Comberton VC made sure that all matches were being played to the rules and that all of the teams enjoyed the event. We wish Histon Brook, Swavesey, Coton and The Vine the best of luck as they go on the represent South Cambs in the county finals.  The full results from the competition were:

Spirit of the Games awards –

As well as recognising all of the physical skills being used, each competition awards a ‘spirit of the games’ award which is nominated by other schools and sports leaders. Nominations were received  by schools for displaying excellent team work, support, perseverance and respect. Our Spirit of the Games winners were:

B team tournament – Coton

A team Plate tournament – Harston & Newton

A team shield tournament – Milton

Tournament organiser, Julia Scarboro said, “Our annual Bee Netball League is one of our most popular competitions, we had a large number of schools entering the leagues and the standard of netball improves every year, and this year it was definitely our best yet. I must thank all of our host secondary schools for running the local league competitions and a very big thank you to Northstowe Secondary college and Comberton Village Colleges for hosting the finals nights and of course the sports leaders who gave up their time to help umpire all of the matches and manage the score table. They all did and outstanding job.