MSA Performances WE 20/2/22

There were plenty of former and current MSA students playing at the top level of their sport over the weekend.  Let’s have a look at how some of them went.

A-League Women  

Polly Doran and Melindaj Barbieri played for the Melbourne Victory in their 2-0 loss to the Perth Glory

A-League Men

Connor Metcalfe came on in the 67th minute and helped Melbourne City defeat Dylan Murnane’s Newcastle Jets 3-0.  Former MSA head Coach Arthur Papas is the coach of the Newcastle Jets.

Birkan Kirdar came onto the park just before the half time whistle to help the Melbourne Victory to a 1-0 win over the Central Coast Mariners

AFLW

Jess Fitzgerald had 12 disposals and 7 tackles in the Bulldogs win over Georgie Prespakis’ Cats.  The Western Bulldogs winning 3-10-28 to 2-4-16 at the Whitten Oval.

Monique Conti stared in Richmond 2nd win of the season along with teammate Elle McKenzie.  Monique had 24 disposals and 9 tackles to help the Tigers to a 23 point win over the West Coast Eagles.

Meanwhile Amy Smith had 13 touches and 7 tackles in North Melbourne’s win over Collingwood by 23 points.  Alisha Newman played for the Pies.

Libby Birch plays for Melbourne tonight against Brisbane at the Gabba.

Golf

Stephine Banque missed the cut at the TPS Murray River Tournament.  She finished 1 over after her first 2 rounds.

Cycling

Lucas Plapp in appearing in his UAE World tour event in Dubai.  Plappy was 19 seconds off the leader after the first round riding for professional team Ineos Grenadiers

Tennis

Current Student Bridget Mihulkais playing in an open Tournament in Singapore

Athletics

Celeste Mucci is back on the track winning the NSW State Championships over the weekend in the 100m Hurdles.  Celeste’s time of 12.99 is the fastest in the world at the moment..

MSA Cricketers in Dowling Shield

Photo Order: Bailey Toseland, Lachlan Fitzgerald, Archit Bhatia, Arjun Sehrawat, Guntaas Brar, Aidan Brasher, Mitchell Jamieson and Spencer Wray

Maribyrnong Sports Academy would like to congratulate our 8 male cricket students who participated in Cricket Victoria’s Dowling Shield.

The Dowling Shield is part of the Cricket Victoria representative/pathway for U17’s with three of our boys playing for the Footscray CC. The next game for the team is a semi-final match against Geelong to be played at Merv Hughes Oval on Sunday the 20/2/2022.  The winner of that game will play the winner of the Ringwood and Richmond game in the Grand Final.

Year 11 student Mitch Jamieson is have an amazing season with the bat having scored centuries in both the Dowling Shield and Premier seconds.  Mitch is current the 3rd highest run scorer in the Dowling Shield with 366 runs from his 5 games at an average of 122, he is also sitting second in the Competition for the Dowling Shield Champion player.

Footscray CC Dowling Shield players from MSA

Mitchell Jamieson

Arjun Sehrawat

Aidan Brasher

Essendon CC Dowling Shield players from MSA

Bailey Toseland

Lachlan Fitzgerald

Archit Bhatia

Guntaas Brar

Spencer Wray

Fitzroy Doncaster CC Dowling Shield Players from MSA

Darcy Gregory-Francis was captain of his team

We wish all our MSA cricketers the best with their upcoming finals matches for their respective clubs either at premier or local level.

2022 off to a great start

Maribyrnong Sports Academy welcomes all students and staff back for what promises to be a massive 2022 school year.

While most of us were enjoying a little time off during the Summer break, some of our students and coaches were busy performing out on the ovals, courts and stadiums of Melbourne playing the sport they love and doing a great job.

We congratulate the following students on their achievements over the last 6 weeks

Year 11 Basketball student Lucas Impey for making the U18 Victorian Country state team.  MSA Head Basketball coach Brenton O’Brien says “this is an amazing effort by Lucus who comes into the team as a bottom age player.  He has worked hard to get here and we wish him all the best”.

Year 10 Students Andy Land and Lachlan Schumann as well as Year 11 student Declan Spears were selected for the Victorian Baseball Showcase held at the Melbourne Ballpark.  The Showcase allows the best 40 kids in the State to play games against each other and replaces the National U16 and U18 championships which were cancelled due to covid.

Our tennis players got the job done with year 12 student Brian Capalnean winning his first professional men’s title.  While Year 11 student Alex Kim also won a men’s event.

Year 10 student Bridget Mihulka played her first pro event and won a match. She also made 2 x singles semi-finals and 2 x doubles titles at the ITF in Singapore. Charlotte McGrath won an open Women’s Event 

The Victorian State Teams for Netball were announced this week and MSA has great representation once again.

Montaya Sardi & Charlotte Morey (Year 11) both made the 17/U state team.

Akira McCormack Made the top 25 for 19/U (final round of selections but did not make the final squad of 12)

Congratulations to all and good luck for the rest of the year.