It’s been a big week for MSA Alumni with summer sports here in Australia all starting to come online. Here are our Alumni performances.

 

Cricket

Congratulations to MSA Alumni Farzan Chowna on making his debut century in Victorian Premier Cricket over the weekend.  Farzan came in at number 3 in the order and came into the game when Essendon lost their first wicket for 91 runs.  He remained 118 not out with Essendon finishing 4/374 from their 90 over.  His 118no came from 176 balls with 13 fours. 

 

Melbourne Marathon

Congratulations to Bianca Puglisi on completing the Melbourne half marathon finishing in fourth place in the Women’s section.  Some stats on Bianca, she finished the half marathon (21.1kms) in a time of 1.16.9.  See was 4th out of 4,706 females who ran the half marathon.  She was 46th of the 10,056 people who ran the half marathon, and she won her age group being 20-24 females.

 

Badminton

Gronya Somerville and her Mixed Doubles partner Kenneth Choo were defeated in the final of the 2023 Yonnex Bendigo International.  After winning the first set Somerville and Choo drop the second and third losing the final to the Chinese Taipei pairing 12-21, 21-14, 21-11.  Unfortunately, Gronya didn’t get on the court in the Women’s doubles as her partner pulled out due to injury.

 

Football

Congratulation to the following players who have recently signed contracts with professional clubs. 

·       Jake Nadjovski – Contract extension for Western United. 

·       Matthew Grimaldi – Signed new Scholarship contract for Western United.

·       Zac Kocankovski – Signed Professional Contract with Macedonian First Division Club Bregalnica Stip.

 

Connor Metcalfe started for Australia in defence, in their game against England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday Morning.  Australia went down in the friendly 1-0.  They next play New Zealand in Brentford.  These games act as a warmup, prior to the round of World Cup Qualifiers starting in November.

 

Polly Doran started for the Chrystal Palace Women’ s team on the weekend after a stint with the Australian U23 team in Italy.  Chrystal Palace defeated London City 6-1.

 

In the A-League Women, Naomi Chinnama remained on the bench for Melbourne City’s 1-0 win over Wellington, she is also back from the Italy cam with the U23 women’s team.  Annabelle Martin started for the Central Coast Mariners in their 1-0 loss to Newcastle.

 

The A-League men’s competition is set to start this weekend.

 

Hockey

Cooper Burns opened the scoring for Melbourne Hockey Centre in their clash against Adelaide in the National Hockey One Competition.  The Melbourne Hockey Centre lead 2-0 early in the 3rd quarter before Adelaide went on a rampage and scored 3 late goals to win.  Connor Otterbach and Nye Roberts were also a part of the team for MHC.

 

AFLW – Round 7

Adelaide Crows v Western Bulldogs – Crows by 42 points

Bulldogs – Jess Fitzgerald had 21 Disposals, 1 mark and 2 tackles.

 

St Kilda v Giants – St Kilda by 13 points

St Kilda – Georgia Patrikios had 20 disposals, 4 clearances and 5 tackles.

 

Geelong v Fremantle – Geelong 24 points

Geelong – Georgie Prespakis had 25 disposals, 8 tackles and 6 clearances.

 

Sydney v Hawthorn – Hawks by 14 points

Hawthorn – Charlotte Baskaran had 7 disposals and 7 tackles in the win for the Hawks.

 

Richmond v Essendon – Essendon by 17 points

Richmond – Monique Conti had 27 disposals, 8 tackles and 2 marks .

Essendon – Georgia Nanscawen had 21 disposals, 10 tackles and 1 mark.

 

North Melbourne v Port Adelaide – North by 63 points

North Melbourne – Amy Smith has 11 disposals and a mark in North’s big win.

 

West Coast Eagles v Narrm

Narmm – Libby Birch had 7 disposals, 3 tackles and 4 marks in Melbourne’s win.

 

Injury List into round 8

Sydney – Aliesha Newman – Concussion – Test

Richmond – Elle McKenzie – Ankle – 3 to 4 weeks