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Annual Awards Ceremony- May 2007

The Annual Awards Ceremony took place with an Oscars theme for the second time running at the Crags on Saturday 26th May. It was another fabulous and well attended evening and everyone looked amazing in their glamorous outfits! Here are some of the pics to remember it by.

Mixed Tournament - May 2007

The annual Holyrood Mixed Netball Tournament took place on Saturday 26th May with 7 teams entering.There was some fantastic netball seen by both sexes and the overall winner of the tournament were the SUPERHANDZ!!

CENA Tournament - January 2007

The CENA netball tournament took place on Saturday 13th January with the HNCA team managing to place second. The day started well for the team, winning all matches in its early rounds to finish on top of Group 1. The team faced Edinburgh University who finished second in Group 2 in the semi final round and won with the Edinburgh Netball Club team winning the other semi final and setting up the final match showdown.

Edinburgh got off to a great start and had built up a good lead into the half time break. While HNCA tried hard to stop the Edinburgh side in the second half, they were just too strong and won the tournament in fine style.

Thanks to all the girls for playing and to all of the organisers of the day.

Christmas 2006 - Christmas party at the Crags!!

October 2006 - School disco welcome night

Another school disco party to start off another exciting season! A great night was had by all at the Crags....

October 2006 - National Club Tournament

Three teams travelled to Glasgow on Sunday 8th October to compete in the National Clubs Tournament. Below are the team's match reports.

Thistes Report

The Thistles team for the National Clubs Tournament consisted of a mixture of Thistles and Tartans players, and we had a bit of a mixed day! We started well, with a one goal loss against the strong opposition of Internationale, and then we went on to win our next two games. Another very narrow loss in the final morning session, meant that we only just missed out on quailification for the cup section. Our sandwiches must have been spiked, as our performance in the afternoon didn't match our morning's games, and we didn't manage to make it to the finals for the plate. Great effort from all the team - it was really encouraging to see a newly formed team play so well.

Celts/Chieftans/Saltires Report

A team comprising 5 shooters and 2 defenders (!) from the Celts, Chieftans and Saltires made their way to Glasgow for the annual national tournament as Holyrood's third team. After a 'difficult' morning (probably the most polite way of saying it given that we had some of the top national sides in our group!) we made our way to the Plate competition for the afternoon and during the afternoon we found some form! Despite a number of players playing out of their normal position we had a couple of close games which really gelled the team together. This was followed by a stunning win over the 2nd Holyrood team (somewhat unexpected for all involved!) and then a draw in a game which we would have won were it not for a goal being scored by the opposition just as the final whistle was blown! Whilst we didn't qualify for the final of the Plate competition it was fantastic to see a team form together so quickly and the victories made the day even sweeter!

Scottish Cup - Thistles

First Round

On Sunday October 29, members from the Thistles headed across to Glasgow for the first round of the Scottish Cup. Two games were played, the first against SPRA and the second against Scotstoun 2.

The first game started off with a tight quarter with the Thistles up 5-3. As the game wore on the Thistles extended the lead and ended up winning by a margin of 17 goals.

Game two against Scotstoun 2 was set to be a tight game from the beginning. The Thistles started well and were up at the end of the first quarter and held the lead throughout the first three quarters with Scotstoun 2 creeping closer by the end of each quarter. In the final quarter the lead changed several times with Oonah starring the final few minutes to help Thistles win by a margin of three.

A big thanks to all the girls and especially Annie for coming across and umpiring for the day.

Second Round

Sunday saw the next round of the Scottish Cup played out with the Thistles drawn to take on the Saltires. Unfortunately the car carrying most of the Saltires across from Glasgow to Edinburgh broke down and the team was not able to play. Thistles now advance to the quarter finals due to forfeit.

Quarter Finals

The thistles faced the scary Scotstoun this saturday bright and early in Glasgow. We got hammered 27-79, which surprisingly is better than we have done against Oynx. We played hard for the full 60 against the basically scottish national team (6 national players on the court at all times, sometimes 7!). They were slick, fit and awesome. We had a pretty good first and last quarter, and even forced them to make some mistakes. We left feeling proud of our effort. Viv and Annie's fantastic accuracy were even commented on by some of the scotstoun players! Thanks to Jo and Tania who gave up their saturday morning to help us out.