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Our MSA Alumni have once again been hitting the courts, ovals and tracks of the world with great results.  Here is what they were up to last week.

Weightlifting

Congratulations to Teagan Newman on her 2nd placing in the Pacific Elite International Weightlifting tournament in Hawthorn on the weekend in the F76 group.

Badminton

The Polish Open…Gronya Somerville and her partner Kaitlyn EA lost in the round of 16 in the women’s doubles.  In the mixed double Gronya and Kenneth Choo lost in the round of 16 after defeating the number 1 ranked team in the round of 32

Football

Polly Doran’s Crystal Palace had a 1 -0 win over Blackburn with Polly picking up a yellow card in the 90th minute.

Connor Metcalfe’s St Pauli FC played Hanover 96 in a friendly match and won 2-0

In the A-League W, Naomi Chinnama played for Melbourne City in their 4-3 loss to Perth Glory.

Mindy Barbieri came on In the 77th minute in Adelaide United’s 3-0 loss to Sydney FC

Athletics

Celeste Mucci has had another sub 13 sec run and finished 2nd in the 100 hurdles at the Brisbane Track Classic, once again behind Michelle Jennneke.  Meanwhile Jessie Andrew finished 3rd in the 400m event in a time of 53.46. 

Basketball

Monique Conti’s Southside Flyers went down to Townville in the 3 game final series against Townsville.  Townsville winning the first two games, with Monique now focusing her attention to the AFLW where she plays for the Richmond Tigers.

AFL

Marby’s own Cameron Rayner had 16 disposals and 4 clearances in Brisbane’s win over the Melbourne Demons in Brisbane.

Zak Butters had 18 disposals in Port Adelaide loss to the Pies at the MCG

Rhylee West had a quiet day by his standard with 4 disposals in the Bulldogs loss to St Kilda

North Melbourne have continued their great start to the season defeating Fremantle.  MSA Alumni Paul Curtis and Kayne Turner playing their roles.  Kayne had 12 possessions 3 tackles while Paul Curtis had 8 possessions and was subbed out due to illness. Luke Ryan had 30 possessions and 10 marks for the Dockers.

Massimo D’Ambrosio had 18 disposals and 5 marks in Essendon’s 28 point win over the Gold Coast Suns.  Last year’s Gold Coast best and fairest winner Touk Miller chipped in with 31 disposals 5 tackles and 5 clearances.

Cricket

Fergus O’Neill took 1/70 from 26 overs and 0/17 in the second innings in his first Sheffield Shield final.  Unfortunately for Fergus though, the Bushrangers went down by 9 wickets to WA.

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This week we add the AFL players onto our Alumni list and we look at a great performance by a current student in Lacrosse

Football

Seb Pasquali came into game in the 61st minute in Western United’s 1-0 loss to Brisbane Roar.

Connor Metcalfe started in St Pauli FC’s 5-0 win SV Sandhausen in the Bundesliga 2.

Polly Doran started for Crystal Palace in the Women’s EPL defeating Sheffield United 1-0.  

MelindaJ Barbieri started in Adelaide United’s 2 all draw with Newcastle. 

Naomi Chinnama’s Melbourne City had a 1 all draw with Sydney FC. 

Volleyball

Lorenzo Pope’s Modena Volleyball won the first game of their best of 3 Quarter Final 3-2 against Gas Sales Piacenza in the Italian SupaLega.  

AFL

Jack Bytel and Luke Ryan faced off in the St Kilda Fremantle match played at Marvel Stadium.  The Saints getting the win with Jack Bytel kicking a goal and having 15 disposals for the victors.  Luke Ryan had an amazing day with 37 disposals and 13 marks in the 15 point loss.

Paul Curtis scored 2 goals in North Melbourne’s 5 point win over the West Coast Eagles at Marvel Stadium.

Zak Butters had 24 Disposals and took 8 marks in Port Adelaide’s 54 point victory over Cam Rayner’s Brisbane Lions.  Rayner having 14 disposals and 3 tackles.

Meanwhile Gold Coast Captain and MSA Alumni Touk Miller had 29 disposals and 8 tackles in his teams 49 point loss to the Sydney Swans.

Cycling

Luke Plapp is riding in the Tour of Catalunya this week with his teammates for his professional team Ineos Grenadiers 

Cricket

Fergus O’Neill took 3/52 against WA in the final home and away game of the Sheffield Shield season bolstering his chances to play in the Shield Final this week.  Victoria takes on West Australia with both O’Neill and MSA Cricket coach Travis Dean expected to make the team. We wish them good luck.

Lacrosse

MSA Year 12 student Toby Townsend made the all-star team at the Box Lacrosse Junior Commonwealth tournament this past weekend. The games were hosted by Altona Lacrosse Club and consisted of teams from Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide.

After a round robin format, an all-star team was selected to represent Australia against a very competitive Canadian team in the showcase final. Toby scored 2 goals and assisted another in the final with Australian losing out to Canada.

Alumni Athletes going strong

Three of Maribyrnong Sports Academy’s past students are firing on all Cylinders in the world of Senior Athletics here in Australia.

The 2023 Chemist Warehouse Sydney Track Classic (a World Athletics Continental Tour - Challenger meet) and Australian Open 3000m Championships were run over the weekend at Homebush featuring Celeste Mucci in the 100m Hurdles, Jessie Andrew in the 400m and Cameron Searle in the men’s 400m.

Celeste Mucci ran a personal best and the 4th fastest female Australian time ever over the 100m hurdles running second in the final to her main rival Michelle Jenneke.  Celeste’s time of 12.84 now puts her above former MSA coach Pam Ryan in the all-time list and just behind Jenneke in second place, with Sally Pearson the fastest. 

Jessie Andrew has put her hand up for a debut in a senior Australian team after blitzing the field in the Women’s 400m.  Jessie time of 53.50 continues her solid form, and is just 13 hundredths of a second off her personal best time of 53.37 set in Canberra 6 weeks ago. 

Meanwhile Cameron Searle in also showing great form on the track with a 400m time of 46.95 placing him 6th in the final.  Cameron’s time sees him closing in on a hopeful start in a 4 x 400m team.

The Australian Athletics community turns its attention next to Queensland for the Brisbane Track Classic which is held on the 25th March.