Westonbirt School

Westonbirt School Lacrosse Tour - Monday 22nd March

Day 3: A free day at leisure in Washington – a visits to the Arlington Cemetery or the FDR Memorial are definite possibilities today. Due to poor weather conditions, the match against Paul VI will be held at Bishop Ireton's ground starting at 17:30.

Local weather in Washington

Post match hospitality will follow and the team will then have a second evening with their hosts.

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Match Report from Bill Simmons: "Surprisingly the game was again 11-6. The team from Paul VI is not a strong team so it appeared that they brought their varsity team to play as well as their junior varsity team, something neither I or the Westonbirt coaches expected. The girls played very hard and it was a pretty even match, the PVI goal keeper made 9 saves, which provided to be the difference as the girls from Westonbirt did not give up many scoring chances.

The weather was stormy initially and we waited 40 minutes for more favorable conditions. The sun did come out by the start of the game and it was much cooler, but relatively dry for the contest.

Tomorrow they are off to Baltimore, what a wonderful trip they have planned. Our parents enjoyed having them here a great deal and we are somewhat disappointed how fast the stay went. We are a little envious of the opportunity to go to New York and Boston, some of our kids may sneak on the bus I think!

In all seriousness, they are delightful young women, as I mentioned earlier, and impressed our families a great deal. We send them to Baltimore with our best wishes for a great visit to the United States, we felt fortunate that they included us in their trip."

Many thanks to William Simmons, Director of Athletics at Bishop Ireton High School for the match commentaries, comments, co-ordination of the second match and pictures of the previous game.