MSA Alumni WE 28/08/22

The strong performances continue for our MSA Alumni. Here’s how they went.

AFLW

Week 1 of the AFLW and our MSA Alumni were front and centre for all their teams.

 

In the match of the round, Geelong was victorious over The Tigers by 4 points.  Geelong and MSA’s own Georgie Prespakis kicking a last minute 40 metre set shot to win the match.  Georgie finished with 16 possessions, 8 tackles and 2 goals 1 in a Best on Ground performance.  For Richmond Monique Conti had 23 possessions and 5 tackles while Ellie McKenzie had 15 touches and 2 tackles, with both being ranked in the 2 best for the losers.

 

Libby Birch helped the Melbourne FC take revenge over Adelaide for last year’s Grand Final win, beating them by 18 points.  Libby collected 13 possessions including 3 Marks.

 

In the Nth Melbourne v Gold Coast Suns game Amy Smith was a tackling machine getting 6 tackles and 7 touches in the Roos win by 26 points

 

Georgia Patrikios played her first game in 18 months and picked up from where she left off with 18 possessions and 5 marks in the Saints win over Aliesha Newman’s Swans by 29 points.  Aliesha had 8 touches in her debut for the Swans.

 

In the battle of the new franchises, played at Marvel Stadium, the Bombers had a 26 point win over our Year 12 Charlotte Baskaran’s Hawks.  Charlotte had 9 possessions and 3 tackles in her first AFLW game.

 

And the Bulldogs held off a barn storming Giants with Jess Fitzgerald gathering 11 touches and 7 tackles for the Dogs as they held off a determined Giants by 7 points

 

 

Cycling

In his first professional grand tour for Ineos Grenadiers, Lucas Plapp is currently 23rd in the young rider classification after the first week of the event. So far they have ridden over one thousand kilometres and there is still 2 weeks to go.

 

Football/Soccer

Polly Doran’s Crystal Palace has moved to the top of the table in the England Women’s Championship after her team defeated Coventry United 3-0. 

 

Golf

Stephanie Bunque has advanced to the second stage of the Japanese LPGA Q school.  Steph shot 5 over in the 4 round 1st stage and we wish her all the best .

Volleyball

 In the Premier League Volleyball finals MSA was well represented. Eliza Smith, along with current students Isabella Maticevski and Cat Smith played with the winning team in the Women’s division and in the Men’s Gai Mach Anyang and Noah Van Genst won the Gold with their team.

And in other Alumni news keep your eyes out for Gabby Mifsud, one of the Barista Sisters, who will be competing in the Amazing Race Australia which airs on Channel 10 tonight from 7.30pm