Basketball
MSA Alumni Stacey Barr (Grad. 2010) who plays for the Warrick Senators in West Australia has claimed the NBL1 Championship defeating the Ringwood Hawks 83-75 in the final match. Stacey had a game total of 17 points which included five 3 point bombs and 9 rebounds.
Cycling
Lucas Plapp has finished a very creditable 28th and 4 mins off the winner in the young riders division of the Tour of Spain. This was Lucas’ first grand tour for his team Ineos Grenadiers.
Baseball
Current Maribyrnong students Jayden Kim and Declan Spiers are both competing for Australia in the U18 World Cup in Florida, USA. Australia lost their first match of the preliminary stage to Mexico 9-5.
Football/Soccer
Conner Metcalfe came on to help St Pauli take a 1 all draw with SV Sandhousen in the Bundesliga 2. Fellow Aussie Jackson Irvine scored the first goal of the match for St Pauli
AFLW
The Western Bulldogs had a 3 point victory against the Fremantle Dockers with Jess Fitzgerald named in the best for the Doggies gathering 21 touches.
North Melbourne went down to the Crows by 14 points at Unley Oval South Australia. Amy Smith had 5 possessions and 2 tackles before leaving the game with concussion.
The Sydney Swans had a big loss to the GWS Giants. Aleisha Newman had 8 kicks and 3 tackles in the 47 points loss for the Swans at the SCG.
Geelong went down to the Pies at GMHBA Stadium. Georgie Prespakis continuing her solid form with 18 possessions and 9 tackles but couldn’t help Geelong get over the line, losing by 4 points.
At RSEA Park, Libby Birch had 13 disposals and 3 tackles for the Demons who went on to win by 26 points over the Saints, who had Georgia Patrikios with a game tally of 14 possessions and 7 tackles.
Richmond had their first win of the year with Monique Conti dominating again gathering 23 touches and 3 goals whilst Ellie McKenzie had 17 possessions, 5 marks and 1 goals. The Tigers beat new Franchise Hawthorn by 35 points who had Charlotte Baskaran kicking Hawthorns only goal for the game while collecting 13 possessions and 5 tackles. All three were in their teams best players .
MSA Hockey Coach Georgia Nanscawen has won her second VFLW Best and fairest Lambert-Pearce medal in consecutive years. Georgia also claimed the VFLW coaches Player of the year award
We also congratulate Harry Birch who has been selected in the umpiring team for this weekends VFL Grand Final played between Casey Demons and Southport Sharks at IKON Park.