Preston Lodge East Lothian Youth Games
Preston Lodge High School attended the East Lothian Youth Games on Tuesday 21 May. Over 80 S1 and S2 pupils competed in Badminton, Basketball, Football, Golf, Hockey and Rugby at meadowmill sports centre with the golf being held at Craigielaw Golf Club.
For the first time the event had swimming and cross country points added from events throughout the year. This seen Preston Lodge go into the day in third place overall with 50 points from the previous two events.
In the morning the S2 hockey team, S1/S2 Football team, S1/S2 Badminton, S1 Rugby and S1/S2 Golf started off the events. At Craigielaw Daryl Yuill hit the first tee shot of the day and had a great positive attitude throughout the event alongside Magnus Braby and Katie Kemp who done well representing Preston Lodge. Back at Meadowmill the football team were unbeaten after three wins and a draw they knew in their last game they needed to win by six clear goals against North Berwick. On the pitch next to them Musselburgh played Knox Academy and beat them 3-1. With both games going on at the same time the PL coaches, senior pupils Ewan Ford and Sam Taylor kept an eye on both games. With seconds left Ethan Laidlaw scored to make it 7-0 to PL v North Berwick to win the football. The other morning results seen rugby finish second, golf finish second, hockey finish third and badminton finish third.
The afternoon seen S1/S2 Boys and Girls Basketball, S1/S2 Girls Football, S1 Hockey and S2 Rugby. The afternoon seen more positive results with the boys basketball finishing third after just pulling a team together from the footballers who played in the morning. The hockey also sealed another third place finish as did the girls football teams and girls basketball teams. The S2 rugby team sealed a win with five wins out of five against the other East Lothian Schools.
In the competition throughout the year Preston Lodge finished third overall. On the day with the points total Preston Lodge finished second which is a great achievement for all the pupils and coaches who attended.
