Hawick & District
Primary School Tournament
(2009)
Around 40
primary schoolchildren from the town's catchment area descended
on Hawick High School on Sunday, 26 April, 2009 for the
inaugural Hawick & District Primary Schools tournament.
Both the
girls and boys' tournaments were hotly contested with all the
children battling it out in a round-robin pool competition for
four quarter-final places. An early start for the boys did not
detract from the standard of play, with some entertaining ties
throughout the morning before the girls began their
equally-exciting pool stages after lunchtime.
Many parents
and friends came along to support the tournament and by the
finals were played the atmosphere in the hall had reached fever
pitch. Silence descended for the first of the finals which saw
Drumlanrig Primary School girls Iben McMillan and Alice Perry go
heah-to-head for the honours. Having played steadily all
afternoon, P6 pupil Iben kept her cool to beat her schoolmate
21-10, 21-3 in a well contested match.
The boys'
singles final turned out to be a ral humdinger of a game when
Denholm's Henry Leask found himself with a fight on his hands
following a superb comeback by Drumlanrig's Ross Graham. Leask
won the first end with a comfortable 21-12 scoreline, but on
finding himself 11-4 down in the second game, young Graham
collected himself and began to fight, taking the game by 21
points to 16.
The third and
final end was a thriller. Graham held on to a two to three point
advantage for most of the game, however, breaking away in the
closing stages to lift the title 21-15.
Knockout Results
Girls:
Quarter-finals:
Alice Perry
21 Paige Davies 9;
Laura Webster
21 Christy Anderson 14;
Iben McMillan
21 Sophie Gaylor 11;
Mathilde
Vermey 23 Kara Teague 21.
Girls:
Semi-finals:
Alice Perry
21 Laura Webster 11;
Iben McMillan
21 Mathilde Mermey 5.
Girls:
Final:
Iben McMillan
beat Alice Perry 21-10; 21-3.
Boys:
Quarter-finals:
Douglas
Telfer 21 Christopher Turner 11;
Henry Leask
21 Euan Thomson 6;
Ross Graham
21 Connor Brown 0;
Taylor George
21 Michael Boyle 4.
Boys:
Semi-finals:
Henry Leask
22 Douglas Telfer 20;
Ross Graham
21 Taylor George 3.
Boys:
Final:
Ross Graham
beat Henry Leask 12-21; 21-16; 21-15.
Overall
team winners: Drumlanrig Primary School.
Tournament
Sponsors:
Howdens
Joinery;
Morrisons;
Janice
Nuttall;
Denholm
Badminton Club;
Mr. & Mrs. I.
Graham;
Rapid
Repairs.
Coaches:
Harry
Turnbull (Hawick Junior Badminton Club)
Colin Blaikie
(Hawick Junior Badminton Club & Drumlanrig P.S.)
Tracey
Kirkpatrick (Denholm P.S.)
Laura
Turnbull (Hawick Junior Badminton Club & Drumlanrig P.S.)
Craig Thom (Hawick
Junior Badminton Club & Burnfoot
P.S.)
Fiona Scott
and Ewan Godfrey (Wilton P.S.)
Special
thanks to Michael Aitken, Suzy Hamilton and Ewan Godfrey who helped to score
games.
Girls
Singles Final - Iben McMillan
v Alice Perry
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Boys Singles Final - Ross
Graham v Henry Leask
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Tournament
Photographs by Alistair Learmonth
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Tournament
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