Wow what a night! Our seven brilliant basketballing superstars were crowned champions in what was a sintalating performance .

On Friday 8th March our 7 remaining A Team pupils competed in the Hoops4Health Finals at the Vertu Motors Arena, Newcastle. It was wonderful to watch the North Stand of Sport Central steadily filling up with 50 members excited families, staff and friends from Stanhope. This was lovely to see our community, getting behind the team in a big finals event! Our players were really motivated to play in front of so much support, and give their very best.

In the semi finals we face multiple past champions St. Bede’s South Shields. We scored an early basket via Dakota. Then the game was end to end. We had many close shots and runs at the hoop. But couldn’t add a second. St. Bede’s then scored an equaliser. We pushed hard to dominate the final minutes and a winner looked likely. Zac finally scored the winner on the buzzer (nail biting stuff ), to give us the 4-2 victory.

At half time in front of thousands of Newcastle Eagles supporters we played Forest View in a shortened Final. Lee-Jay scoring the early basket as we dominated the entire match to lift the trophy. Winning 2-0.

This is our first victory in this tournament and now we will play after Easter in the Champion of Champions Finals.

Congratulations to the team. Your hard work and dedication has paid off. But there’s more to come… Thank you to all of our tremendous supporters, made up of family and friends, as well as staff.

A night to remember