It’s been a big week for our Alumni with the start of the AFLW season and plenty more. Here’s how they went.
Football
Connor Metcalfe is once again playing with FC St Pauli this season in the Bundesliga 2 competition in Germany. So far FC St Pauli have drawn their first four matches of the season with Connor receiving a yellow card in the first two games of the season meaning he missed game 3 and started on the bench in game 4.
Barclays Women’s Championship
Polly Doran and her Crystal Palace teammates have started off the season with a 2nd round victory against Birmingham City 2-1. Polly was on the field for the full 90 minutes. In the first round of the Championship Crystal Palace had a 1 all draw with Reading.
Bill Turner Cup
The Bill Turner Cup is a national schools Football Competition played annually. Congratulations to our U15 Girls team who won the silver medal this year losing the final to Westfields Sports School 5-1, while our boys won the Bronze medal beating St Joesph’s 3-1.
American Football
2023 NCAA Punter of the year Adam Korsak is currently playing Gridiron in the Canadian Football League with professional team the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Adam wasn’t selected in the NFL draft but did complete rookie minicamps with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The roughriders are currently sitting 3rd in their division with 8 games in the season to go.
NRLW
The West Tigers NRLW team has suffered its 5th loss in a row with Najvada George making 36 tackles in the game against the Titans. On top of the tackles Najvada ran the ball 118 meters, had 6 missed tackles with 27 receipts of the ball in the 16-4 loss.
Para Table Tennis
Paralympian Nathan Pellissier has claimed more medals, this time at the Japan Para Open. A silver in the mixed doubles and a Bronze in the Men’s doubles. Nathan also made the quarter finals of the singles.
Australian Volleyball Super League
MSA Alumni Mikayla Adam and Caitlyn Waterfall are a part of the Victorian Vipers in the Australian Volleyball Super League.
The Vipers are sitting 3rd after 4 rounds with 2 wins and 2 losses with only a couple of games to go in the season.
AFLW
Melbourne v Collingwood
Libby Birch had 5 tackles in a solid defensive effort for the Demons who beat Collingwood by 7 goals.
Geelong v Bulldogs
Georgie Prespakis has started season 2023 the way she finished 2022, in great form. 34 disposals, 11 tackles, 10 clearances and 641 metres gained in the Cats 48- point victory over the Bulldogs who had Jess Fitzgerald with 18 possessions, 5 tackles and 3 clearances.
Hawthorn v Essendon
The Bombers won their match by 19 points with former MSA Hockey Coach Georgia Nanscawen with 21 possessions, 4 tackles and 6 clearances in her debut performance. Charlotte Baskaran started the season with 14 disposals and 4 tackles.
North. Melbourne v St Kilda
The Kangaroos had a convincing 40-point victory against St Kilda with tackling machine Amy Smith having 8 tackles and 12 disposals in a tagging role against Georgia Petrikios who had 11 possessions.
Brisbane Lions v Richmond
An Injury concern to Monique Conti has soured the Tigers victory. Monique had 26 disposals, 4 tackles and 8 clearances while Elle McKenzie had 15 possessions, 5 tackles and 325 meters gained.
Sydney v GWS
The Swans hung onto win by 5 points with Aliesha Newman having 8 disposals and kicking 1 goal 1.