THE Ringwood Brewery sponsored netball team won the UK Beach Netball tournament in fantastic conditions at Boscombe Beach on Saturday.

The annual competition attracted teams and around 160 players from across the United Kingdom and the Ringwood Brewery team, that competes in the New Forest Netball League, won all seven of their group games to qualify for the semi-final.

This brought them up against the team from South London that beat them in the last final.

However, this year the Ringwood Brewery team gained sweet revenge as they won 17-10 to make the final.

In the final two showdown, early on the New Forest League team found themselves 3-1 down, but they hit back to level things bt half-time.

After the break in the final, the Ringwood Brewery team took over dominating the second session to take the title winning the game 8-3.

The team’s captain Charlotte Benson said after the tournament: “It was a great day and winning the tournament was a fantastic achievement, particularly after losing the last final.”

She added: ‘I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Ringwood Brewery for their sponsorship both for this tournament and in the New Forest Netball League.”

The winning team is pictured above are as follows:

Top row left to right - Lisa Donovan, Lindsay Warren, Nicola Kenealy, Julie Watton, Dawn Dallas and Kim Yeats

Bottom row left to right - Lily Warren, Charlotte Benson (captain) and Alex Mitchell.