[BD] National Indoor U17s Championships

[Kevin Lowe]

This weekend saw 14 teams compete in the 3rd ever U17s national indoor 
championships held once again in Malpas, Cheshire. Pre-tournament favourites 
Airbadgers had a tough choice as half of them played in open regionals and 
qualified for nationals in Sheffield; but they chose U17s while their team 
mates were busy in Sheffield showing just how far junior ultimate has 
progressed. Airbadgers and Artic both showed up with 4 teams with both 
managing to field a team of year 7s to compete for the U13s title which went 
once again to Exeter.

The semis were well fought contests with Artic 1 convincingly beating 
Airbadgers 2 and Crazy Apes (Leicester) giving Airbadgers 1 a run for their 
money, but lost 10-4.

The final started well for Artic, taking a 1-0 lead, then a 2-1 lead before 
Airbadgers stepped up a gear to score something like 14 points without 
reply. The final score was 16-3.

1 Airbadgers 1 (Exeter)
2 Artic 1 (Sutton Coldfield)
3 Crazy Apes (Leicester)
4 Airbadgers 2 (Exeter)
5 Manor 1 (York)
6 Artic 2 (Sutton Coldfield)
7 Airbadgers 3 (Exeter)
8 Ocelots 1 (Malpas, Cheshire)
9 Manor 2 (York) - Plate
10 Artic 3 (Sutton Coldfield)
11 Ocelots 2 (Malpas, Cheshire)
12 Airbadgers 4 (Exeter)
13 Artic 4 (Sutton Coldfield)
14 OAPs (Coaches)

Spirit went to Manor 1, narrowly edging out Ocelots 1 and Airbadgers 1
MVP of tournament went to Joe Wynder (Crazy Apes), narrowly beating Josh 
Kyme and Ed Hammand (Airbadgers)
U13s Champions - Airbadgers
Junior Girls champions - Cheshire

Thanks to everyone who came, especially the coaches and teachers who seem to 
be giving up more and more weekends.

Kevin.
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