Athletics vs Tournament: See report

Exeter vs East Devon Cross Country

St Luke's had 7 students representing Exeter vs East Devon in the cross country at Okehampton on 3rd December.

Jessica Davies (Y7), Mercedes Stamp (Y8), Mia Leather (Y9), Sophie Ewin (Y9), Adam Galliford (Y9), Beckham Pyatt (Y9) and Will Davies (Y9) qualified to represent Exeter in this competition after finishing inside the top 16 in their races in the previous round.

All of our athletes represented themselves and the school brilliantly, putting in determined performances in typically challenging conditions and against tougher opposition this time around.

Year 7 student Jessica Davies did fantastically well, finishing 8th in her race and qualifying for the next round which will be the Devon Cross Country Championships held at Stover School on January 16th 2016.

Well done to all of our runners, a top effort!

Year 9 Rugby vs Tournament: See report

Exeter and East Devon Rugby Festival

All scores are try counts

St Luke's 1 - 3 Honiton
Try by Sam Rawlings

St Luke's 0 - 4 Kings School, Ottery

St Luke's 8 - 3 Axe Valley
Tries by Adam Galliford, Mark Holt, Harvey Roddick, Luke Hayes, Sam Rawlings 2, Eddie Fee 2

St Luke's 3 - 8 Tiverton
Tries by Eddie Fee 3

St Luke's 3 - 5 QECC
Tries by Luke Hayes 2, Ben Bingham

St Luke's squad: Ben Crowley, James Revell, Adam Galliford, Eddie Fee, Sam Rawlings, Jake Shepherd, Ryan Goodman, Mark Holt, Ben Bingham, Harvey Roddick, Luke Hayes, Owen Caple, Laurie Shelton, Tom Preece

Year 10 and 11 Futsal vs Tournament: See report

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Year 10 Football vs Thomas Hardye: 4 - 1 victory

ESFA National Open Academies Cup: Round 3

On a blustery and shower hit November afternoon, St Luke's started their third round Open Academy Cup tie in scintillating fashion, keeping the ball for large amounts of the opening exchanges between the two teams. Maintaining possession and playing with the wind meant that the home side dominated the first half of the match who created numerous chances. However, being wasteful in front of goal meant that the deadlock was not broken until the 35th minute of the match, where Morgan Cullen struck his first of what would be a good day for him.

Half-time: St Luke's Science & Sports College 1, Thomas Hardye School 0

The second half signalled a fightback from Thomas Hardye, who started moving the ball quickly and and breaking into the St Luke's defensive third consistently. After weathering the storm, St Luke's began moving the ball with quick one touch inter-play and soon began to create a consistent flow of chances. This soon paid off with Morgan Cullen soon getting both his and St Luke's second and third goal to put the home side firmly in control. A well taken goal for Thomas Hardye gave them a well deserved consolation goal for their consistent endeavour and determination. Thomas Bray cooly finished to put St Luke's firmly into the fourth round with a well earned victory.

Final Score: St Luke's Science and Sports College 4, Thomas Hardye School 1

Squad: Ellis Burgess, Logan Spurgen, Sam Beer, Daniel Cullen, Lewis Nash, Evra Yao, Lewis Evans, Ethan Ampadu, Cole Fawkes, Jack Ronchetti, Morgan Cullen, Thomas Bray, Lewis Wilson and Thomas Preece.

Under 14 Girls Futsal vs Tournament: See report

County Qualification

St Luke's entered two teams into a tournament that would see the overall winners qualify to compete with the best schools across Devon. Both St Luke's team did fantastically well with the B Team playing together for the first time. St Luke's were competitive in every fixture with highlights coming for a great team performance by the A team scoring ten goals in one game alone, alongside a Emma-Leigh Ball hatrick in her first game representing the under 14s. St Luke's A team won the tournament and therefore now go into the Finals in February held at Paignton Community and Sports College.

Well done Girls.

Team: Katie Browne, Sophie Taylor, Chloe Hallett, Wiktoria Jazwinska, Kiara Jade Robins, Kira Bryant, Emma-Leigh Ball, Izzy Knight, Hollie Mae Caines and Samantha Hurley.

Under 13 Girls Futsal vs Tournament: See report

National Futsal Tournament - County Level

In their first competitive game together, the St Luke's under 13 girls football team played against five other schools from around the County. With fighting spirit and great resilience the girls became better and better with every game they played in terms of understanding, performance and finally, results!

A superb effort meant that the Girls finished 4th out of six teams in their first competition together. Well done girls, a great effort.

Team: Kasmira Swift, Willow Allery, Ellenor Bird, Ella May-Lloyd, Olivia Bray and Alexandra Smith.

Year 7 Football vs Ivybridge Community College: 3-0 victory

ESFA National Cup (Round 3)

On a brisk November evening a purposeful and determined St Luke's team took to a pristine Ivybridge 4G pitch in a competitive affair which was a fantastic advert for football in the South West.

The game started with St Luke's moving the ball quickly and creatively through the thirds and creating numerous scoring opportunities. Joe Wragg was the first to get himself on the score sheet with good anticipation to follow up at the back post. This lead was soon doubled with Josh Leaman-Bissett being sent clear and finishing cooly into the bottom corner. The fantastic start got better when Charlie Dack struck with an audacious lob over the keeper to leave the score at half time 3 - 0 to St Luke's.

A rallying Ivybridge, who moved the ball well and who were tenacious in the challenge pushed hard to get on the score sheet in the second half, with Levi Richards called into action several times to keep Ivybridge at bay. Yet through calm possession based play St Luke's held firm and although missing opportunities themselves, kept control of the game to round off a fantastic display against high quality opposition.

St Luke's now progress into the fourth round of the ESFA National Cup.

Year 8 Rugby vs Tournament: See report

Year 9 Rugby vs West Exe: 19-14 victory

Athletics vs Tournament: See report

St Luke's attended the Exeter & District Schools' Cross Country Championships at Okehampton school on Thursday 12th November.

With the students running in single sex year group races, there were approximately 100 runners in each race from schools from across the district, meaning competition was fierce.

The course was a proper cross country experience (windy, wet, muddy, boggy & hilly) and all of the students found it a great challenge. Thank you to Okehampton School for organising the event.

The top 16 runners in each race have qualified to represent Exeter vs. East Devon Schools on Thursday 3rd December, to be held again at Okehampton School.

Well done to all of our runners who did brilliantly and represented St Luke's with great determination and pride.

Year 7 Boys

• Harry Wilkins - 15th - qualified
• Finley Norman - 48th
• Harrison Bushnell - 49th
• Brandon Lightfoot - 62nd

Year 7 Girls

• Jessica Davies - 3rd - qualified
• Harmony Kessie - 32nd
• Amelia Ashelford - 36th

Junior Boys

• Adam Galliford - 8th - qualified
• Will Davies - 12th - qualified
• Beckham Pyatt - 14th - qualified
• Ryan White - 42nd

Junior Girls

• Sophie Ewin - 2nd - qualified
• Mia Leather - 6th - qualified
• Mercedes Stamp - 13th - qualified

Year 9 Football vs Stoke Dameral: 4-3 victory

ESFA National Cup

The year 9s completed their hardest fought win to date against a well-balanced and physical Stoke Dameral side in wet and muddy conditions. The match started in the worst way imaginable for St Luke's with Stoke Dameral starting hugely positively and going two goals up within the first ten minutes. Stoke Dameral pressed high not giving St Luke's a second on the ball and it wasn't until half way through the second half that St Luke's found their rhythm and got a foot hold in the game. St Luke's eventually got one back before half time with Lewis Wilson taking on and beating three players in the middle of the pitch before finding Tom Preece who finished low in to the bottom corner.

The second half started frantically again but this time it was St Luke's who looked the stronger team with wingers Harvey Roddick and Ryan White seeing far more of the ball and Kiara-Jade Robins and Kieran Burpitt receiving far better service up front. It took a piece of individual brilliance to finally level the game however with Sam Stapleton beating two players on the edge of the box before finishing neatly in to the bottom corner. The game now looked very evenly balanced with both teams attacking and defending well. St Luke's nearly scored with a number of good efforts whilst at the other end it took some brave defending from Jason Howard, Harvey Andrews and Josh Baxter and some acrobatic saves from Ben Bingham to keep the score 2-2. Finally Stoke Dameral took one of their chances however after a goal line scrap the ball eventually ended up in Ben Bingham's goal.

St Luke's attitude and commitment to winning was never in doubt however and a inspired quick corner from Beckham Pyatt to Tom Preece was converted by the heel of Josh Baxter to once make the game equal with ten minutes left to play. St Luke's were the team in the ascendency for the last ten minutes with the fresh legs of Will Davies and Matt Sewter looking dangerous on the edge of the oppositions box.

The winner finally came with one minute remaining, Kieran Burpitt was put through 1 vs 1 with the keeper and the finish never looked in doubt as he calmly chipped over the helpless Stoke Dameral keeper to take the win for his team.

While no one could say this was the team's best technical performance the determination and desire the team showed throughout was beyond impressive and sees them progress into the 4th round of the National Cup.

We await the draw to see the opposition for the 4th round.

Squad: Ben Bingham, Sam Ord, Harvey Roddick, Kiara-Jade Robbins, Tom Preece, Harvey Andrews, Beckham Pyatt, Sam Stapleton, Ryan White, Lewis Wilson (c), Josh Baxter, Will Davies, Matt Sewter, Kieran Burpitt

Goal scorers: Tom Preece, Kieran Burpitt, Sam Stapleton and Josh Baxter.

Year 10 Boys Football vs Stoke Dameral: 3-2 Victory

ESFA National Cup

The Year 10 Football team progressed into the 4th round of the National Cup with a hard fought victory over Plymouth based Stoke Dameral.

In very wet and muddy conditions, the side put in a good performance and ensured the win with goals from Morgan Cullen, Evra Yao and Jack Ronchetti.

We await the draw to see the opposition for the 4th round.

Well done boys and a big thank you to our link Exeter City coach Dan Green for giving up his time to work with the team for this match.

Squad: Ellis Burgess, Sam Beer, Logan Spurgeon, Dan Cullen, Lewis Evans, Alex Roberts, Cole Fawkes, Morgan Cullen, Lewis Nash, Jack Ronchetti, Thomas Bray, Evra Yao, Isaac Stribley, Lewis Macnamara.

Year 10 Boys Football vs Tiverton High School: 5 - 1 victory

Under 15 ESFA Open Academy Cup

This was a very good performance from the year 10 side in difficult conditions on a very boggy Tiverton pitch in fading light.

St Luke's started the brightest and took the lead through a fine Morgan Cullen finish, rifled past the goalkeeper via the underside of the crossbar.

However, Tiverton got themselves back into the game after a defensive lapse in the St Luke's rearguard, making the score 1-1 at half-time.

St Luke's stepped up through the gears in the second half and ran out comfortable winners with two headed from Jack Ronchetti, a superb dipping 25 yard strike from Lewis Wilson and another clinical finish for captain Morgan Cullen.

This sees St Luke's progress into round 2. Well done boys!

Squad: Ellis Burgess, Lewis Nash, Logan Spurgeon, Sam Beer, Dan Cullen, Lewis Wilson, Lewis Evans, Alex Roberts, Evra Yao, Morgan Cullen, Thomas Bray, Jack Ronchetti, Tom Preece.

Year 7 Netball vs Central Venue League: See report

Our girls played their first competitive fixture in the above competition. They played a total of 4 games during which they tried out a variety of netball positions. Although they did not score many goals, everyone played with commitment and enthusiasm.

Congratulations and thanks to Sophie Ewin, Victoria Jazwinska and Ashlynn Densham Gibbons in year 9 who umpired our games with confidence and skill. They are currently undergoing umpire training to complete their junior umpiring award.

Results

St Luke's 1 v 1 St James B
Player of the match: Jorja Hewlett

St Luke's 0 v 6 St Peter's
Player of the match: Lauren Bradley

St Luke's 0 v 9 St James A
Player of the match: Lauren Bradley

St Luke's 0 v 3 West Exe
Player of the match: Nancy Leather

St Luke's squad: Lauren Bradley, Jorja Hewlett(capt), Caitlyn Coggins, Ellie Bird, Ella Lloyd, Lauren Sprague, Naomi Bick and Nancy Leather

Year 7 Boys Football vs Torquay Boys Grammar School: 2-2 (2-1 pens) victory

ESFA National Cup: Round 2

On a compact and pristine pitch, St Luke's started this second round National Cup tie brightly. Moving the ball around with pass quality and care, St Luke's soon started to create chances which found the Torquay goalkeeper in fine form and equal to everything St Luke's could throw in the early exchanges.

However, after some nice combination play down the right hand side, Joe Wragg finished off a slick counter attack to put the home side 1-0 up. Yet the valiant Torquay remained vigilant in their passing style of play and got their just rewards with two goals before the break to leave them 2-1 up at the interval.

A tight and intense second half was hotly contested by both teams. Drawing towards the latter stages of the game, St Luke's started piling on the pressure which again found the Torquay goalkeeper hard to beat. Yet pressure eventually told and Ben Chapman soared above the crowd in a congested penalty area to head home the equaliser, 2-2.

Fourteen minutes of extra-time still could not separate the two sides in what was an excellent game to advertise school football in the South West. This meant, penalties. With five courageous volunteers from each side chosen, St Luke's eventually ran out 2-1 winners. Congratulations to Torquay Boys Grammar school who represented both themselves and their school fantastically, as well as playing some fantastic football.

St Luke's now progress into round 3.

Goalscorers: Joe Wragg & Ben Chapman
Penalties: Alfie Pond & Charlie Dack

Team: Levi, Richards, Alfie Pond, Dre Butt, Josh Leaman-Bissett, Charlie Dack, Ben Chapman, Will Bailey, Chris Needs, Joe Wragg, Marcus Howe, Ollie Blackmore, Jack, Meaton, Niall Burland, Harry Wilkins and Brady Bolt.

Year 9 Football vs Wellsway School, Bristol: 4 - 0 Victory

ESFA Year 9 Open Academy Cup

Mr Hallam reports: This was one of the best St Luke's performances Mr Evans and I have had the pleasure of witnessing, with every single one of the squad making an outstanding contribution in ensuring this amazing result in this fierce competition, away from home. St Luke's went into this fixture significantly under strength, missing key Exeter City Academy players Kieran Burpitt, Tom Preece, Oliver Bray and Oakley Bennett, all through injury.

It was a long sluggish drive up to Bristol, but the team, to their credit, were quick to switch on after getting off the bus and engaged in a high intensity warm-up to mentally and physically prepare for the challenge ahead.

Wellsway nearly took the lead immediately with a long ball over the top from kick-off which was defended with a nervous last gasp challenge inside the St Luke's penalty area just as their striker was about to pull the trigger. However, St Luke's responded instantly when Ryan White turned his defender inside out before curling a beautiful finish past the Wellsway goalkeeper from 25 yards inside the first minute. This provided huge confidence and momentum and from this point onwards it was all St Luke's. Josh Baxter, Harvey Andrews, Ben Bingham and Kieran Knight were majestic in defence, nipping any Wellsway attacks in the bud and maintaining possession when playing out from the back, giving us a solid platform to play with confidence and flair. Captain Lewis Wilson was outstanding in central midfield, supported brilliantly by the tireless work-rate of Beckham Pyatt, both combative in defence and creative in possession and this led to plenty of attacking opportunities for St Luke's, who doubled the lead through a rifled Lewis Wilson drive from the edge of the area to make the half time score 2-0.

The message at half-time was clear, don't change a thing!

St Luke's played even better football in the second half, with further goals from Lewis Wilson and Sam Stapleton. St Luke's goalkeeper Jack Arthur was a commanding presence throughout and made an excellent 1-on-1 save to keep a well-deserved clean sheet.

The side now progress into the next round of this challenging competition.

Well done to the team, a truly magnificent performance and result!

Squad: Jack Arthur, Kieran Knight, Ben Bingham, Harvey Andrews, Josh Baxter, Sam Ord, Sam Stapleton, Lewis Wilson, Beckham Pyatt, Kiara-Jade Robins, Jason Howard, Ryan White, Harvey Roddick.

Year 9 Netball vs Central Venue League: See report

Our year 9 netball team played in their first Central Venue League competition this week. The squad of 8 girls played exceptionally well throughout the competition and maintained high standards of fast, accurate team play. They were passionate in their approach and really pulled out all the stops to achieve some excellent scores. They are already looking forward to the second tournament where they will be able to take on 4 other schools.

Results

St Luke's 7 v 3 Isca
St Luke's 3 v 5 St Peters 'B'
St Luke's 19 v 1 Tiverton

Sophie Ewin played exceptionally well and was very influential in her attacking play in the circle. She was selected as player of the match for all 3 games. Well done Sophie.

Our squad was Sophie Ewin, Ashlynn Densham Gibbons, Sophie Taylor, Wiktoria Jazwinska, Teigan Mills, Millie Harris, Carys Sycamore and Mia Leather.

Year 10 Boys Football vs Torquay Academy: 5 - 2 victory

ESFA National Cup: Round One

On a crisp October evening St Luke's took on a spirited and physical Torquay Academy side in the first round of the National Cup. With composure on the ball and a competitive nature out of possession St Luke's took control of the fixture with goals from Thomas Bray and a bullet header from Morgan Cullen in quick succession.

Leading 2-1 at half-time St Luke's started the second half brightly with Evra Yao and Isaac Stribley constant threats down the flanks. A direct ball from Ellie Burgess put Morgan Cullen in for his second goal which was soon added to by Thomas Bray to leave St Luke's in a commanding 4-1 lead. A thunderous 20 yard strike from Lewis Nash rounded off a thorough display by the year tens leaving the score at 5-1. A late thoroughly deserved consolation goal for Torquay left the final score as St Luke's Science and Sports College 5, Torquay Academy 2. St Luke's now move into the second round.

Team: Ellis Burgess, Sam Beer, Logan Spurgeon, Daniel Cullen, Alex Roberts, Morgan Cullen (c), Lewis Nash, Thomas Bray, Callum Tooze, Evra Yao, Isaac Stribley, Kristian Katunsky.

Goal Scorers: M. Cullen (2), T Bray (2) & L Nash

Year 10 and 11 Netball vs Central Venue League: See report

St Luke's played in this year's first central venue league tournament of the season playing against 2 schools from Exeter and East Devon.

Both teams played with great enthusiasm and skill in their first competitive competition of the year.

Congratulations to all players who demonstrated great teamwork and competitive spirit.

Year 10 competition

St Luke's 23 v 1 Isca
St Luke's 9 v 13 Clyst Vale
Player of the tournament ..Evie Middleton

Year 11 competition

St Luke's 16 v 9 Clyst Vale
St Luke's 10 v 10 St James
Players of the tournament..Katie Townsend and Lucy Ellis

Under 14 Netballs vs Tournament: See report

The Under 14 girls Netball Team attended the National Schools' Netball Tournament, hosted at Blundell's School. The calibre of competition was extremely high with only 7 teams attending: St Luke's, QE, Okehampton, Exeter School, Maynard, Blundell's, St Peter's. St Luke's were grouped in a pool with St Peter's, Blundell's and QE.

St Luke's won their first match against QE 6-0 - (Tiegan Mills x 3, Ashlynn Densham Gibbons x 3)
St Luke's lost their second match against Blundell's 9-1 - (Ashlynn Densham Gibbons)
St Luke's lost their third match against St Peter's 19-1 - (Tiegan Mills)
St Luke's then played against Okehampton in a 5th v 6th playoff and won the match 5-2 (Tiegan Mills x3, Ashlynn Densham Gibbons x2)

So, St Luke's finished a respectable 5th out of 7 against extremely high quality opponents. The Player's Player of the Tournament was Sophie Taylor, and Coach's Players of the Tournament were Sophie Ewin and Tiegan Mills.

Well done girls!

And a big thank you to Miss Steer for coming along and doing the umpiring!

Squad: Ashlynn Densham Gibbons, Tiegan Mills, Sophie Ewin, Sophie Taylor, Wiktoria Jazwinska, Millie Harris, Hollie Caines, Mia Leather, Izzy Knight.

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