The Score 101023

Our Past and Present Students have had another great week in sport. Here’s their performances

Football

Congratulations to Connor Metcalfe who has once again been selected in the Socceroos squad, this time for the upcoming London internationals against England at Wembley Stadium and New Zealand in Brentford.  Meanwhile Connor scored for his Bundesliga 2 club FC St Pauli in the 95th minute of their 5-1 win over Nurnberg.

Polly Doran scored 1 of the 4 goals scored by Chrystal Palace in their 4-0 win over Blackburn Rover.  Her goal in the 71st minute of the game was from an assist in front of goal and Polly made it look easy.

Hockey

Cooper Burns and Connor Otterbach have both played for HC Melbourne in their opening game of the 2023 Men’s JDH Hockey One League.  The season opener was away to the Tassie Tigers with Connor scoring the opening goal for HC Melbourne on the way to a 4-1 victory.  Former Olympian and MSA PE Teacher Andrew Smith has taken the role of Head Coach with the team with Nye Roberts also a member of the 22-man squad.

Congratulations to Cooper and Nye who have also been selected in the Burras U12 team to play in the Sultan of Johor Tournament as preparation for the Junior World Cup taking place later this year.

Judo

Over the School Holidays 2 of our current students went extremely well in Judo Competition here in Australia with the National School Championships followed by the Queensland Open (National Event Series).

Year 8 student Akos Kelly won a Gold Medal at the National school champs and Silver at the Queensland Open in the Senior Boys Category.  While Year 12 student Ruby Gojevic won a Bronze at the National Schools, a gold medal in Queensland in the Juniors and was placed 5th at the Queensland Open Senior Women’s competition.

We also note a fantastic effort by former student Danny Vojnikovich who won gold in the junior and senior men division at Queensland Open for his first competition back after ACL surgery. Danny has now been selected to represent Australia at the Pacific Games in November.

Ryley Rametta recently competed at Pan-American Oceania Junior Championships in Canada where she won Silver.   From this performance Ryley was selected in the Australian Judo team that will compete at the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands in November.   This will be the first time Australians have competed in Judo at these Games.

Basketball

Congratulations to Sa Pilimai who was part of the Australian Under 16 team to win a gold medal at the Asian Cup.  Sa, who is now a part of the Centre of Excellence in Canberra has had a growth spurt and is now 7 foot 2 or 218cm.

Golf

Our current golfing students have done very well at the Junior Vic open.  Charlie Roylance won the Boys U16 event while Kirk Kryskow won the U14 event.  Seabil Leong finished 5th in the U16 Girls event.

AFL

Zak Butters won his first John Cahill Medal for Port Adelaide.  This tops off an amazing year – Zak was awarded All-Australian selection; AFL Coaches’ Association Player of the Year; Most Courageous Award and finished equal-fourth in the Brownlow Medal.

AFLW – Round 6

Western Bulldogs v Carlton – Carlton by 19 points.

Bulldogs – Jess Fitzgerald collected 7 disposals and kicked 1 goal 1.

Narrm v Adelaide Crows – Crows won by 10 points.

Narrm – Libby Birch had 6 disposals, 2 marks ad 3 tackles for the match.

St Kilda v Hawthorn – St Kilda by 9 points.

St Kilda – Georgia Patrikios had 17 disposals and 5 tackles in the Saints win.

Hawthorn – Charlotte Baskaran had 14 disposals, 1 mark and 12 Tackles for the Hawks.

Port Adelaide v Sydney – Swans by 15 points.

Sydney – Aliesha Newman had a quiet day with just 4 possessions.

Essendon v Geelong – Bombers by 10 points.

Essendon – Georgia Nanscawen had 25 disposals, 2 marks and 7 tackles for the victors.

Geelong – Georgie Prespakis had 26 disposals, 10 clearances and 7 tackles for the Cats.

Richmond v Gold Cost Suns – Suns by 1 point.

Richmond – Monique Conti had 22 disposals, 5 marks and 2 tackles for the Tigers.

Walyalup (Fremantle) v North Melbourne – Kangaroos by 45 points.

North Melbourne – Amy Smith had 10 disposals and 5 tackles for North in their win.