Prep Schools

■THE Prep Schools competition format of each team playing solely their group games continued into another year. If a winner had to be picked, it would be Orwell Park School in Group G, who won all five of their group games and ran up a points difference of +175.

Amesbury topped the only group with eight teams (Group H, with all others having six), and ran up a points difference of +130 themselves, although teams in the larger group did still play the same amount of games.

The only group winners who didn’t win all their games were Worth School in Group J, although they were still unbeaten having drawn with Parkside, while King’s House managed to win Group F by seven points by virtue of the four draws that happened elsewhere in the group.

Dubai College claimed Group A in a statement of the growing improvement of international schools in the competition, while Millfield won Group B.

Thomas’ Clapham (Group C), Winchester House (Group D), Sedbergh (Group E) and Terra Nova School (Group I) were the other group winners.

U13 Boys

THE Welsh schools ■

outperformed their English counterparts as of the 11 groups that had Welsh participation just shy of half of them had Welsh winners.

Haberdashers’ Monmouth School beat Whitgift to Group D on points difference after the pair drew 15-15, Ysgol Calon Cymru did the same to Prince Henry’s Grammar after they drew 20-20 in Group H and Stanwell School took Group K after beating the British School in the Netherlands, who gave the festival its first Dutch representation, 20-15.

Y Pant Comprehensive were the most dominant group winners of all as they ran up a +190 points difference in Group O, while Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg beat Fulham 40-0 to take Group P.

It wasn’t all bad for England. King’s Macclesfield, St. Anslem’s Birkenhead, King’s College Wimbledon, Orleans Park School and Finborough School took all-English Groups A, B, F, G and L respectively, while Bedford Modern (Group C), Robert Clack School (E), Coopers Coborn

(I), Lancaster RGS (J), Campion School (M) and Scarisbrick (N) all overcame Welsh opposition to win their groups.