Promotion hopes for York clubs as BUSA form begins to improve
After a fairly successful term of BUSA action, several of York’s clubs are handily placed to take a shot at promotion, or even trophies. The only two current certainties for promotion are the Women’s Hockey 1sts and the Men’s Badminton 2nds. The Women’s Hockey have recovered from an early slip-up against Hull to take their league by storm, and have already won the league with two games to play.
The Men’s Badminton have been even more dominant, recording eight wins out of eight, including a remarkable five 8-0 white-washes, to also win their league with two matches to play. In fact, the Badminton Club enjoyed a fantastic term, with the women likely to only just miss out on promotion while the men will be praying for the currently dominant Leeds Met to falter and give them a chance for promotion.
Elsewhere, the Men’s Football 1sts are sitting proud at the top of league 3B with four matches still to play this term, and will be looking to continue their six match unbeaten run today in a pivotal game against their nearest rivals, Leeds 2nds. With the other male football teams languishing in mid-table obscurity and the Women’s 1sts almost certain to be relegated, the hopes of the club rest on the Men’s 1sts continued form.
The Squash club will be looking to rebuild for next year following a disappointing showing last term from all three teams.
The Men’s 1sts need to beat Durham 2nds convincingly away and hope that the latter team gets soundly beaten by Leeds’ 2nds to avoid relegation, whilst the Women’s 1sts face the daunting task of beating league-leaders Leeds Met 1sts and hoping other results go their way to avoid a similar fate.
There is better news for the Rugby club, whose Men’s 1sts occupy a good position in their league, within striking distance of promotion. They also face a crunch game today, as they play league-leaders Durham 3rds, hoping to avoid a repeat of the 36-0 thrashing of last term. The Men’s 2nds occupy top spot in their league after two scores of over 100 points, and must be favourites for promotion, while it is still early days in the Women’s season.
It was another good term for the Fencing club. Both clubs were in with a chance of going through to their respective trophy competitions with only a single round of fixtures still to play, although both will miss out on the chance to compete for the Championship.
It was, however, a frustrating term for the Netball Club, with both the 1sts and the 3rds left regretting devastatingly close defeats, 34-36 to Newcastle 2nds and 28-29 to Leeds Trinity 1sts respectively that have ended their chances of promotion. And in an interesting twist, the 2nds team will remain in the same league as the 1sts if the latter team defeat Teeside 2nds in their final fixture next Wednesday.
