Hit the Top Triumph for Trinity School

Jul 7, 2010

Essex ‘Hit The Top’ Schools Festival

On a very sunny Thursday 1st July at South Loughton CC saw the 3rd annual Essex 'Hit the Top' Schools Festival. This annual festival celebrates all the hard work the schools on the 'Hit The Top' programme have put into their sessions in 2010.

The teams participating this year were...

  • Trinity School, Dagenham
  • William Morris School, Walthamstow
  • Eastbrook School, Dagenham
  • Little Heath School, Ilford
  • Dycorts School, Romford
  • Brookfield House School, Woodford

The format is such that everyone plays each other once all ending with a grand final to decide the 'Hit The Top' champs 2010. Each game is 10 overs with 10 players per side.

There has been a massive improvement in ability and cricketing knowledge from all the schools and this showed in our grand final between Dycorts and Trinity.

Trinity were the defending champs from 2009 and looked good opening the batting scoring 120 off their 10 overs. Dycorts started well but fell just short with 119 runs off their 10 overs.

Roger Atkinson a teacher at Dycorts School said, “We always look forward to the HTT Festival. There are always lots of schools attending and because of 'Hit the Top', cricket is the number one sport in all our schools. We have kids from our school going to clubs which has never happened in the past and we thank Cricket for Change for all their hard work in making cricket the number one sport in SEN schools in Essex”.

Congratulations to Trinity School for defending their title but one question remains. Will anyone beat them next year?

Thanks go to Andrew Shields at South Loughton CC for their ongoing support of the 'Hit The Top' programme.

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