Challenging night: River Marsh (left) and Mike Haimes go for the ball. (Pictures by Adrian Miller, 0673283)

ST SAMPSON’S HIGH are hoping to turn around their fortunes in the Spiller Cup final tonight after their Sigma Cup final disappointment earlier in the week.

The new school, born out of St Peter Port and St Sampson’s coming together and boasting more than 700 pupils, were the firm favourites to take the Sigma for Years 8 and 9 at Northfield on Monday evening.

However, up against a well-organised Grammar School side they went down 3-0. Their Year 10 side now face Elizabeth College in the final of the Spiller Cup at Blanche Pierre Lane this evening in a six o’clock start.

‘We’re hoping to turn it around in the Spiller,’ said St Sampson’s High’s head of PE, Sam Mauger.

With the sheer size and brand new state-of-the-art sporting facilities that make it the envy of other schools in the Bailiwick, St Sampson’s is expected to take over from Grammar as the big force in local school sport.

But Grammar proved that they are not to be written off just yet in the Sigma Cup final.