On Saturday 27th September William Ransom A-team footballers took part in the Early Season Rally at Whitehill School. This rally divides the Hitchin schools into two leagues and each school usually plays about four short games with no finals, shields or recognition of a final winner. It is just a chance for the schools to … Read more
A first League game for our A-Team footballers and a ‘friendly’ for the B-Team at home against St. Andrew’s. The William Ransom boys looked quite small in comparison to St. Andrew’s boys but what they lacked in height they made up for in energy and commitment to the game. The A-team conceded an early goal, … Read more
The second round of the Wix tournament was held at Wheatfields School tonight. After winning the Hitchin schools round the girls went forward to play against a selection of the best schools in Hertfordshire. A magnificient 6-0 win against St. Marys with Rachel scoring all of the goals,was assisted by Annabel in taking the ball … Read more
A friendly against St. Andrews saw both the A and B-teams in action tonight. The B-team was the first to play. With a few changes from the tournament team of last week, it took a while for the boys to start playing as a team. They went 2-0 down and then started to spread out, … Read more
The ‘B’ Team footballers took part in an afternoon of football at Wilshere Dacre School. With a couple of schools pulling out at the last minute, the tournament was redrawn and two leagues of five were set up. The top two from each of these leagues would go through to contest the semi-finals and ultimately … Read more
On Saturday 21st March the William Ransom A-team took part in the ‘End of Season Football Rally’ at Wilshere Dacre School. This competition divides the teams into two leagues and due to the large number of schools participating this year only the winners of each group were to go through and play one another in … Read more
The girls played against Samuel Lucas in the Hitchin Schools final round of the Wix Cup.The game was played in a great spirit of friendly rivalry. An early goal from Rachel as she took the ball through the Samuel Lucas defence put William Ransom into attacking mode.The seond and third goals were also scored by … Read more
After a cancellation a couple of weeks ago due to bad weather, Cockernhoe arrived at William Ransom to play our last game in the ‘mini-league’.The match started well but Charlie took an early injury as Cockernhoe cleared the ball and had to come off to ice his ankle. Tommy covered well with some good attacking … Read more
On Tuesday 25th February William Ransom played Ickleford in a home game in the semi-final of the boys’ Wix Cup. After a day of mixed weather the match got underway in watery sunshine under a fading rainbow. Ickleford started the game on the attack and Louix made a few early saves and the defence had … Read more
With a cold wet start, the game was quite slow to get going but despite a rather heavy pitch Rachel finally scored into the bottom corner from a long throw in from Annabel. Rebecca was not daunted by girls bigger than her and defended courageously. Rhea also made lots of effort to attack the ball … Read more
