Ms Abdalla’s PE Blog

The year 9 B-team took part in the ‘B league’ tournament against 3 other A-teams from Hailsham, Lewes Priory, and Cavendish. In any other school our squad of 8 players would make up an A-team.

Each school put forward 2 teams, our A-team won the tournament, winning 6 games and drawing 1. Jon Reed top scored in the whole tournament, Ashlee Ford, Beau Baxter Smith, and Jake Taylor made up the winning team. Our B-team finished 2nd in the tournament, only losing 2 matches. Chris Bennett, Tanaka Shoniwa, Tey Franco, and Ricky Cummings performed well under pressure.

It was great that our B-team finished higher then 3 other schools A-teams in the tournament.

MVP: Jon Reed “top rebounder and scorer in the tournament, the A-team is beckoning”

ETC 32 TIDEWAY 36

A very disappointing start to the season with an unexpected loss. We were missing key players such as Tyrone Haydes, but also missed too many lay-ups and 14 free throws.
A very poor start to the ‘A’ league season, hopefully things will improve.

MVP: Not awarded

ETC 0 WILLINGDON 0
ETC 1 ST RICHARDS 1 CORY GODWIN
ETC 0 WILLINGDON 1
ETC 0 ST RICHARDS 5

Drawn in a group of 3, ETC let themselves down by finishing bottom of the group. After two promising performances, ETC were poor in the last 2 games.Only one more match for the year 11 football team. They will need to vastly improve for the clash against the staff team in term 4.

BISHOP BELL 16 ETC 19

KANE BRUCE ALEX CHAKABUA
JOE CHAPMAN CALLUM DELL
CRAIG DELL SAM DERRICK
BEN GODDARD BEN HANSON
MICHAEL VILLEGAS DANNY RODFORD
PAUL WEATHERBY

The year 7 basketball team put in an exceptional performance against a strong Bishop Bell team. Faced with their first fixture away from home, the team got off to the perfect start by scoring the first 4 points of the game which quietened the vocal home support.

From then on both teams were involved in a highly competitive game with players from both teams showing some fine basketball play. Both teams were cancelling each other out, and it was up to Mr Raybould and Mr Moore to offer some genius tactical plays which allowed ETC to pull away from Bishop Bell in the fourth quarter.

However Bishop Bell replied and ETC were faced with a nervous last few minutes of play, with the score at 19-16. ETC stuck to their guns and showed great character in keeping Bishop Bell at bay. The final whistle was greeted with great cheer from the ETC team, with the score finishing ETC 19 – Bishop Bell 16.

There were some great individual performances in the team:
Kane Bruce- showed good strength and determination on offence and defence.
Alex Chakabua- good support play when introduced off the bench.
Joe Chapman- demonstrated close dribbling skills, and adapted well to a different playing position.
Callum Dell- worked well with Kane in offence and defence, and showed good movement in the key.
Craig Dell- fast dribbling skills, and simply ghosted past the opposition.
Sam Derrick- Improving game by game, forced opponents into errors on a number of occasions.
Ben Hanson- Good captains performance, covered every area of the court.
Michael Villegas- Used strength to out muscle his opponents on offence and defence.
Danny Rodford- Winning rebounds against his taller opponents, and whizzed up and down the court.
Paul Weatherby- A touch of class, great understanding of the game; and drove ETC forward as point guard.
MVP: Mr Raybould could not separate two boys. So his Most Valuable Player goes to Kane Bruce and Paul Weatherby.Well done year 7, a brilliant performance from all the team.

Mr Rayboul

ETC 84 SEAFORD HEAD 28

PAUL WEATHERBY BEN HANSON KANE BRUCEMICHAEL VILLEGAS ALEX CHAKABVA DANNY RODFORDJOE CHAPMAN SAM DERRICK CALLUM DELLCRAIG DELL BEN GODDARD

The year 7 Basketball team had their 1st fixture of the season at home against Seaford Head. Both schools were split into 3 teams and played each opposing team once in a 3 v 3 game. The boys showed great skill level in all games and all worked hard for their respective team. Of the 9 games that ETC played, the boys won 8 games and drew 1, scoring a total of 58 points with 22 against.The boys played a 5 v 5 game on a full size basketball court and carried on with their success from the 3 v 3 games. There were some great individual performances during this game. Kane Bruce and Michael Villegas showed great physical strength and determination when rebounding. Danny Rodford and Craig Dell showed great pace with the ball, whilst Paul Weatherby showed a great understanding of the game in his positional play.At the end of the game, the boys ran out winners with a score of 26-6. This made a total score of ETC 84- Seaford 28.

MVP: BEN HANSON “Excellent work as point guard, and for his overall performance for the team. Well done boys”. Mr Raybold.

Tuesday 15th January: YEAR 7 GIRLS BASKETBALL
BISHOP BELL 28 ETC 32
PAIGE MOSS 10, KAYLA McCARTHY 8, ABBIE SANDERS 6, HOLLIE MARSHALL 4, YASMINE SCOTT 4.

This game really did see massive improvements from the previous against Cavendish. The girls were anxious at the beginning at the thought of playing Bishop Bell who are renowned for having strong basketball teams, in only their second game of the season.The 1st quarter saw Bishop Bell go 6-0 up in the first few minutes, ETCs nerves were showing and it took one or two key players to start lifting the confidence of the rest of the team. ETC finished the quarter trailing 10-6. The second quarter ETC really took the game to Bishop Bell, Kayla McCarthy showed some aggressive offensive play which inspired the rest of the team to get stuck in. Another strong performance from Paige Moss, driving into the Key and scoring Lay ups. We managed to turn the ball over 2 or 3 times to catch Bishop Bell on the fast break, Which often resulted in McCarthy driving down the wings, passing to Hollie Marshall or Paige Moss to finish. After a confident 2nd quarter performance we came in 16-14 in the lead.This was now a very equal game, both teams fast on the attack, and quick to defend. Abbie Sanders really stood out in this half as she was out Jumping and claiming any rebounded ball from the offense and defence. Most missed shots from Yasmine Scott, Kayla McCarthy, Hollie Marshall, or Paige Moss resulted in a Sanders rebound then shot. With points coming from all positions on the court now, ETC finished the 3rd 28-24 ahead.Both teams really pushed for the win in the final quarter, again Abbie Sanders defended well along side Hollie Carter and Eve Drummond, who had her work cut out against a very tall girl. A very competitive game that finished 32-28 to ETC, this will now hopefully leave our girls with confidence in completing the rest of the season.

MVP: ABBIE SANDERS “Out jumped her opponents, and showed great strength in keeping possession for us”.

SUSSEX DOWNS, EASTBOURNE:

CAVENDISH Vs ETC 2-0
RATTON Vs ETC 0-1
CAVENDISH Vs ETC 1-0
RATTON Vs ETC 0-0
SEB DELL, WILL SKILTON, HARRY NEALEY (1), RYAN HARRIS, AARON NORWOOD,DAVID BAPTISTA, CAMERON STEVENS-GRANT

The year 10 boys put in a great performance at a windy Sussex downs. After losing 2, winning 1 game and drawing 1 game in the group stages, the boys progressed to the semi-finals where they played Saint Richards. Unfortunately the boys lost 1-0.There was plenty to admire in the teams’ performance, none more so then the heroics of Cameron Stevens Grant in goal. WELL DONE TO ALL BOYS INVOLVED!!
Mr Raybold.

MOM: CAMERON STEVENS GRANT “A confident performance, making high quality saves”

The boys table tennis season concluded on Monday night with the Year 11 team being defeated by a very strong Bishop Bell side who included a County player and two players from the local adult leagues.With a bit more composure, the result could have been closer – Matt Veness and Jake Chapman both lost in the deciding game after being in the lead. Matt Veness did go close to an upset after taking the County player and number 1 seed to a third game.

Results are below:
1. Cory Godwin 0-11 6-11 2-11 7-112.
Matt Veness 7-11 11-9 9-11 11-7 7-11 11-133.
Jake Chapman 11-8 6-11 11-6 11-6 5-11 3-114.
Fred Pope 7-11 11-13 9-11 5-11

DMO has organised a girls table tennis fixture against Bishop Bell, so lets see some more girls at training!

CAVENDISH 12 ETC 12
KAYLA McCARTHY 4, PAIGE MOSS 8.

A promising start for the year 7 girls, in their first ever basketball match. We played with confidence and a lot of fluidity in attack.Both teams were pretty evenly match, and the scores stayed close throughout. We had some very nice offensive plays, with accurate a purposeful passing coming from Kayla McCarthy and Paige Moss. Hollie Marshall and Yasmin Scott worked hard down the wings to provide more outlets for us, and Abbie Sanders used her height to rebound and defended well. All girls worked extremely hard for each other including Hollie Carter and Eve Drummond. The girls have a great team spirit and looked to thoroughly enjoy the game; they learnt a lot from this experience and will hope now to improve with each game.

MVP- PAIGE MOSS “worked hard up and down the court, scored us some valuable points”.

BISHOP BELL 20 ETC 22HANNAH BLUNDELL 14, SHANTELLE OMAR 8.

A fantastic start to the basketball season for the girls, having had a successful introduction to the basketball league last year, the then year 8 girls had an impressive record of 4 wins and 1 loss to Bishop Bell (56-40). First game back this season and the year 9s were joined by the following year 8s to strengthen the squad Rachel Gunn, Imogen Robinson, Kirsty Timms, Chloe Baker, Sapphire Haydes and Mel Albrow, as they have now merged the 8/9 league. As expected it was a hard game, we started slow and went down very quickly 8 points to 2 (Blundell) in the first quarter. Bishop Bell were using a zone defence and made it difficult to break through them for the shot or lay up. It seemed the result from the following year was making the girls nervous, and showed in their timid attacks.The 2nd quarter allowed the girls to settle into the game, we were now really starting to show what we were capable of, and I have to say looked the better team. Blundell with some fantastic lay ups, Omar with some longer range shots, Gouviea strong in defensive and offensive rebounds, and Crotty working hard for the team looking very self assured and quietly confident.The start of the 3rd quarter saw ETC playing with more confidence, The score was now 18-10 to the home team and this was the real turning point for us when Jess Gouveia, Shantelle Omar and Charleigh Crotty really stepped up to the challenge and denied any space for Bishop Bell to gather momentum in attack. Some great Hustle in particular from Jess and Charleigh saw us turn the ball over on a number of occasions to fast break to Blundell and Omar who together made them count. We now managed to not only bring the scores equal to 18 points all, but also took the lead ending the quarter 20-18.1 quarter to go and ETC were not backing down, another shot for us made it now 22-18, but still with minutes on the clock Bishop Bell were desperate to get the ball up the court. A good break for them made the score 22-20, and with seconds on the clock ETC kept possession of the ball in the Bishop Bells half making sure the Bishop Bell did not turn over to equalise.The game ended 22-20 to us, and what a fantastic and exciting start to the season, well done to everyone involved!!!

MVP: CHARLEIGH CROTTY “defensively strong, kept the ball well and worked hard for the team. A confident performance”