Grey storm to the top of college points table

The Durham sporting season is now well and truly underway, with all participating teams looking to amass as many points as possible for their respective college in order to gain the illustrious crown of College champion.
The publication of the latest Team Durham college points table reveals that Grey have moved up four places to head the latest table with 381 points.
The Hill college are nearly a massive 40 points ahead of their nearest rivals Hatfield, who have 346 points, and, to the surprise of many, have maintained their early season form and look like real contenders to challenge for the title.
Following them are sporting powerhouses Hild-Bede, last year’s champions Van Mildert, and early table-toppers Collingwood, who are all separated by a mere five points.
The fact that these colleges, who are so accustomed to leading the way, find themselves in a real battle with ‘new’ challengers, shows just how competive college sport now is.
Yet, it does appear as if the top five colleges are in a class of their own so far, as a large 128 point gap separates Collingwood (334), from the next placed team, St Aidan’s (208), who lay in sixth place.
Trevelyan (198) and Josephine Butler (188), will be pleased to find themselves relatively high up the table, despite the small size of Trevs, and Butler’s short existance.
University College (156) and St Mary’s (149), make up the top ten, and it is already clear that the middle of the table is going to be hotly contested.
This highlights a change in fortunes for the Bailey College, who found themselves in close contention after the release of the first standings, but now appeared to have stumbled in their performance.
Looking towards the bottom of the rankings shows no change in performance for Ustinov (98), who still hold the unenviable position as the bottom placed team.
Just above the unfortunate Ustinov are Stephenson (113), who too have not been able to haul themsevles away from the bottom of the scoring charts.
Even worse for ‘Stevo’ is that their main rivals John Snow seem to be on the up, as they now find themselves on 128 points and will no doubt be looking to move further up the table week by week.
Hope still remains for all colleges in their aspirations, as knockout competitions get underway and the prospect of a College Festival of Sport towards the end of the year means no team can be assured of positions until the last match has finished.
The full table can be found on the Team Durham website, as can a breakdown of how points are allocated.
(Table was correct as of Novemember 18, standings may have changed since this article was written).