Once again, our Alumni and our current day student athletes have been mixing it with the World’s best. Here are their performances.
Cricket
Fergus O’Neil took 2/33 and 2/24 with the ball and made 33 no and 27 no with the bat in Victoria’s 113 run win over Queensland in the Marsh Sheffield Shield.
Hockey
Cooper Burns, Connor Otterbach and Nye Roberts all played in the HC Melbourne 4-2 victory over the Canberra Chill on the weekend in the Hockey One Competition. HC Melbourne now move into finals mode.
Meanwhile the final 18-man team has been named for the FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup 2023. Congratulations to Cooper Burns and Nye Roberts who have made that team. The Burras depart for Kuala Lumpur on the 28th November ahead of the opening pool match against Argentina on the 5th of December.
Badminton
Jacob Schueler made it through to the Round of 16 in the Men’s Singles at the Bahrain International Series winning his round 32 match 2-1 and going down 25-23, 12-21, 10-21 in the Rd 16 match. Jacob stays in Bahrain now for the Bahrain International Challenge before heading to Wales for the Yonex Welsh International Badminton Championships 2023.
Taekwondo
Australia won silver at the TKD World Cup Team Championships in Korea with 3 of the 4-man either MSA Alumni or current students.
Australia’s team consisted of Alumni and MSA coach Leon Sejranovic, Jamie Cefai (year 12 MSA), Xavier Nikolovski (year 12 MSA ASP) and our head coach Will Afonczenko’s brother Tom.
Also, congratulations to Leon who has been nominated for the prestigious 2023 Victorian Institute of Sport 2XU Rising Star Award!
At just 21 years old, Leon won bronze at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. His remarkable achievement not only made him Australia's first male world championship medallist in nearly a quarter of a century but also put him on the path to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris!
Baseball
Both Declan Spiers and MSA Baseball Head Coach Daniel Chircop made their debut for the Melbourne Aces in the ABL. Daniel as a first base coach for the team and Declan had 2 at bats in game number 3 of the 4-game series. Current year 10 student Jayden Kim is also listed as a development player with the team.
A League Women
Annabelle Martin started for the Central Coast Mariners in their 1-0 win over Newcastle.
MelindaJ Barbieri (Newcastle) and Naomi Chinnama (Melbourne City) both came off the bench in City’s 3-2 win on Sunday.
International Football
Connor Metcalfe played a strong game for the Socceroos in their 7-0 win over Bangladesh in a World Cup Qualifier played in Melbourne.
AFL
Congratulations to Jordan Croft who was selected with pick number 15 by the Western Bulldogs as a father/son pick. Jordan was initially selected by the Sydney Swans, but their bid was matched by the Bulldogs.
AFLW
Sydney v Adelaide – The Crows won by 67 points.
Sydney – Aliesha Newman had 5 disposals, 2 tackles and 2 marks for the Swans.
Melbourne v Geelong – Geelong by 5 points.
Melbourne – Libby Birch had 6 disposals and 1 tackle for Melbourne.
Geelong – Georgie Prespakis had 18 disposals, 13 tackles 5 clearances and 2 marks.
Congratulations to both Georgie Prespakis and Monique Conti who were selected in the initial squad of 42 players for the AFLW All-Australian team. The team will be announced next Monday.