It was another big weekend for our MSA Alumni at home and abroad.  Here are their results:

Athletics

Our MSA Athletics Alumni had some fantastic results at the 100th staging of the Australian Open (National Championships).

Congratulations to Jessie Andrew who claimed gold and is now the 400m National Champion.  Her time of 52.62 was a personal best.

Amelia Mazza Downie finished 8th in the 5,000m in a time of 16 minutes and 4 seconds

Celeste Mucci ran another sub 13 second run, her 5th for the year,  to finish with the silver medal in the 100m hurdles in a time of 12.92. That time was just .08 outside her best of the season so far.

Aliyah Canepa finished 6th in the Hammer Throw with a personal best throw of 54.54m.

Cameron Searle finished 3rd in the Men’s 400m in a time of 46.27.  That time is also his best time of the season.

Premier Cricket Final:

In Cricket Victoria’s Premier Cricket final, Melbourne played Carlton, with Kieran Elliott and Fergus O’Neill playing for the victorious Melbourne CC.  Kierann took an amazing 17 wickets in the finals series with 7 of those in the final.  And Fergus took 4 wickets in the final.  Melbourne winning the  last match of the season on the first innings result.

Women’s Football

Naomi Chinnama played for Melbourne City in their 3 all draw against Canberra United in the A-League W.

Mindy Barbieri played for Adelaide City in their 3-1 loss to Wellington.

Good luck to Naomi Chinnama in Melbourne Cities A-League W finals campaign.

In the Women’s EPL Polly Doran started in Chrystal Palace’s 2-1 win over Sunderland.

Men’s Football

Western United had a 3 all draw with Sydney FC in the A-League.  Seb Pasquale coming on for United in the 76th minute.

In the Bundesliga 2, St Pauli FC has a 1-0 victory over Jahn Regensburg.  MSA Alumni Connor Metcalfe started for the victors.

AFL

Cameron Rayner had a fairly quiet night by his standards in Brisbane’s loss to the Bulldogs on Thursday night by 14 points.  Cam finished with 16 disposals and 6 marks for the night.

Both Paul Curtis and Kayne Turner kicked 1 goal 1 behind and had 9 disposals in Nth Melbourne’s 19 point loss to Hawthorn in Launceston.

Massimo D’Ambrosio had 27 possessions, 8 marks and 2 tackles for the Bombers who lost their MCG clash to St Kilda by 3 goals. 

Zak Butters kicked a goal and had 15 disposals in Port Adelaide’s loss to Adelaide at Adelaide Oval by 31 points. 

Touk Miller’s 20 possessions, 4 marks and 6 tackles have helped the Suns grab a will earned win over the reigning Premiers Geelong by 19 points.