The St. Thomas More basketball tournament was held on Wednesday 15th. November. Five schools entered with Highfield St. Josephs, Blaydon St. Josephs and St. Marys’ all entering an A and B team each giving a total entry of eight teams. The competition was a round robin format with every team playing each other. This gave us a total of twenty eight games which were played over one and three quarter hours.
Each game was six minutes long resulting in each team being on court for forty two minutes. At the end of the evening there were a lot of red faced; tired children but everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
The games were very competitive but in the end The St. Agnes’ trophy was won by St. Mary’s, the first time this school has won a cluster tournament. Following their success in the netball, Highfield St. Josephs’ took the silver medals and St. Agnes’ the bronze. Vicky Holmes, one of Gatesheads’ young ambassadors, awarded the fair play certificate to St. Agnes.
Once again every pupil who played in the tournament were given a certificate and every team received two basketballs for their participation in the event.