Team SJP played their fourth cluster league match on Friday 10th March, having won their previous 3 home games they travelled to Burlington, New Malden in unfamiliar surroundings. The game started off very close with Christian Ronald & Decari Branker going close early on. It wasn't long until early SJP pressure payed off and Ronald made the breakthrough with a superb finish to cap off a great team move. SJP kept up the pressure and Burlington went close towards the end of the half with Gabriel Kadir being forced to make a great save. SJP took the advantage going into half time with the score at 1-0.
The 2nd half started in similar fashion to the 1st, but a lapse in concentration in defence gave Burlington a one on one chance which they finished comfortably. Having just conceded Mr Ford looked for a response from his team and Ronald was on hand to supply a superb individual run and finish. Burlington again equalised with a header from a corner. The game was finely poised at 2-2, it was Ronald again who completed his hat-trick with a tidy finish from the edge of the box. With the win in touching distance, Burlington never gave up and eventually managed to grab a very late equaliser to make the game an incredible 3-3.
Great game for the neutral not so good for Mr Ford's heart rate, team SJP remain unbeaten in the league and stay top by 1 point with 1 game to play.
Team SJP into borough table tennis finals
St Joseph's year 6 table tennis team took part in the Kingston borough qualifiers yesterday for the first time in the schools history. Not only did they have a fun afternoon but they managed to finish 2nd out of 5 schools which meant they qualified for the borough finals which will take place on 26th April. This is an amazing achievement for our school who have only just this year started playing table tennis, the introduction of our new outside table and table tennis after-school club has had a massive impact. A big thank you to Focus TT who have supported us with raising the profile of table tennis within the school. We can't wait to take part in the finals against the best table tennis players in the borough.