It’s been a big couple of weeks for our MSA Alumni and current students.  Lets have a look at how they went.

 

Hockey

Congratulations to Connar Burns and Cooper Otterbach on making the final 18 squad for the Oceania Junior World Qualifiers in Canberra from 8-11 December.  We wish them all the best.

 

Takewondo

With 2 months of competition under her belt after a 4-month layoff recovering from a back injury, Reba Stewart has flown 80,000km to compete around the world. 

 

From a WT Grand Prix event in Paris, Reba went to Tahiti where she won 2 gold medals.  She is now home after just missing the quarter finals in the Manchester WT Grand Prix.  Reba next competes in Mexico.

 

AFLW Finals.

Melbourne v Adelaide

Melbourne had a 21-point win to go straight through to the preliminary final.  Libby Birch had 13 possessions, 4 marks and 6 tackles in the Demons victory.

 

Brisbane v Richmond

Richmond lost their qualifying final to Brisbane by 17 points.  For the Tigers, Monique had 15 possessions and 7 tackles while Elle McKenzie had 11 possessions and 5 marks.

 

North Melbourne v Geelong

The Kangaroos held onto to beat The Cats by 2 points in their Elimination final

Amy Smith had a breakout finals performance with 16 possessions and an AFLW record breaking 17 tackles.  Georgie Prespakis was gallant for the Cats in their defeat accumulating 14 possessions

 

Western Bulldogs v Collingwood.

The Bulldogs are out of the AFLW finals after losing to Collingwood by 5 points.  Jess Fitzgerald had 10 possessions, 2 marks and 2 tackles in the loss.

 

The AFLW finals continue this weekend with the semi finals where Richmond play Nth Melbourne and Adelaide take on Collingwood.

Also we congratulate Monique Conti, Elle McKenzie and Georgie Prespakis on making the initial 42 women squad for the AFLW All Australian team.  The squad will be cut down to a final group of 21 players and we wish our MSA Alumni all the best.

 

A-League Men

Rhys Bosinovski came onto the park at the 52nd minute mark in Western United’s loss to Adelaide United 4-2. 

 

Volleyball

Lorenzo Pope and his Modena team in the Italian Volleyball League had a win against Cisterna in the Supaleagua 3-0

 

Cricket

Year 8 student and 14yo Pearl Kapoor made her maiden half century in Premier Cricket playing for Plenty Valley on the weekend.  Pearl finished with 54no in the seconds at Plenty Valley, helping the team to their first win since March 2020.

Athletics

Congratulations to MSA Alumni Amelia Mazza-Downie on her championship victory in the Mountain West cross country event in a time of 19.39.3 over in the States. That makes it back to back cross country titles for Amelia.