Stockton Heath Primary Win Warrington Tag Festival

Stockton Heath Primary ran out eventual winners of the Warrington schools tag rugby festival, which took place at Warrington Sports Club on 19th June. Even so it was a very close run thing and it needed a Golden Try from Caitlin Hayes to gain a hard won victory over Penketh County Primary in the final.

Eleven teams, from years 5 and 6, had taken part in the competition and each of these had been a winner of its local cluster competition. The event had been organised and led by student sports leaders from Broomfields High School with enthusiastic support from Julie Pennington, PE teacher at Broomfields and Pete Allen, the Warrington Rugby Union Community Coach, who is based at Warrington RUFC. The trophy and the finalists' medals were presented by Warrington mayor Councillor Celia Jordan, who is herself from Stockton Heath.

The winner of the festival earns the right to represent Warrington at the Cheshire Youth Games, which take place at Ellesmere Port on the 23rd June. Unfortunately, one of the Stockton Heath players is holding a birthday party on that day, to which all the team have been invited. Their place at the Youth Games will be taken by Penketh CP. I don't know what Bill Shankley would have made of that.

The teams taking part were:
Alderman Bolton
Penketh South
Penketh CP
Gorse Covert
St Monica's
Sankey Cluster (4)
Thelwall Juniors
Stockton Heath

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