Rawlins claim three Victories at the Team Leicestershire Boys Basketball Finals

On Tuesday, 26th March, 17 schools took to the Leicester Riders home ground for the Team Leicestershire Basketball Finals. The night saw Year 6-11's and U19's to compete in the final stages to claim the Team Leicestershire titles.

The night brought much excitement and anticipation and a number of parents had turned out to spectate creating motivational atmosphere for the teams.

There was so much talent displayed across all the competitions and all the finals were very closely contested. However it was Glensmere Primary School who took the first victory of the night winning the Year 5/6 Team Leicestershire title with Woodstone Primary in second place. Rawlins played a strong game against The Martin High School to secure the Year 7 trophy. With Rushey Mead taking on St Pauls School in very close game of 32 - 31, with Rushey Mead taking the win. Gartree took the Year 9 trophy after a very strong game.

In the Year 10 final Rawlins secured their second victory of the night with Rushey Mead taking a very strong lead to win the Year 11 final. The U19's Final ended 61 - 40 to Rawlins making that the third win for Rawlins during the evening.

Results

Year 5/6

Winners: Glenmere Primary

Runners-Up: Woodstone Primary

Year 7

Winners: Rawlins Academy

Runners-Up: The Martin High School

Year 8

Winners: Rushey Mead Academy

Runners-Up: St Paul's School

Year 9

Winners: Gartree High School

Runners-Up: CLCC

Year 10

Winners: Rawlins Academy

Runners Up: CLCC

Year 11

Winners: Rushey Mead Academy

Runners-Up: Rawlins Academy

U19's

Winners: Rawlins Academy

Runners-Up: Beauchamp College

Team Leicestershire is the umbrella Association for all traditional competitive school sport in secondary schools across Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland.

Images of the Team Leicestershire Finals are available on our Facebook page - Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport. Make sure to keep up with all the action over the coming months through our Twitter - @lrsport, Instagram - @lrsportcsp and Snapchat - lr_sport using #TeamLeicestershire.

More information: http://www.teamleicestershire.org