Last Friday Auchinleck Academy were represented at the Scottish Handball Finals in Motherwell by two teams, S1-3 and S4-6, competing against teams from across Scotland.

Both teams were placed in tough groups with experienced handball schools and started slowly, before a strong finish at the end allowed both teams to qualify out of their group and into the play-offs.

The S4-S6 team managed to make it to the 5th/6th play-off and came up against another school in East Ayrshire – Grange Academy. After going down early to two goals and then losing our player of the tournament (Colbi Welsh) the team rallied together and managed a fantastic 4-3 win to finish 5th in Scotland!

The S1-3 team started slowly with a 1-1 draw against Largs Academy, which would later come back to ‘haunt us’ (Halloween) as we missed out on the final by goal difference (2 goals). Here they came up against local school Grange Academy for 3rd place and with a strong performance from Sophie Reid (our top goal scorer) and Goal-keeper Courtney Graham the S1-3 team finished 3rd in Scotland! Awesome!

The day was a huge success and a massive thank you to Miss McKeich for coming along to help!