The Score 120923

Once again there have been medals won and fantastic performances by our MSA Alumni in their chosen sports.  Check out how they went this week in ‘The Score’.

Badminton

Gronya Somerville made it through to the round of 16 in the Guatemalan Open in the Women’s Doubles with her teammate Caitlyn EA.  In the Mixed doubles Gronya and her partner Kenneth Choo won the bronze medal. 

Jacob Schueler lost his round 32 singles match at the Indonesian Masters.

Football

Congratulations to Polly Doran and Naomi Thomas-Chinnama for being selected in the Football Australia U23 National Women’s Team squad which will play 2 games in the upcoming weeks against Scotland and AC Milan’s women’s team.

Hockey

The Altona Hockey club has been knocked out of the Victorian Hockey Premier league, losing its semi-final to Doncaster 6-5.  MSA Alumni Cooper Burns scored 3 goals for Altona while National Development Squad player Connor Otterbach didn’t play for Altona due to a torn Hamstring he sustained at an Australian camp.  The injury has kept him out of the game for nearly 2 months.

Judo

Ryley Rametta competed at the Pan American Oceania Championships in Calgary, Canada this week.  Ryley defeated Nauana Silva from Brazil to take out the Silver Medal in the U63kg category – this performance places Ryley 8th in the world – an outstanding performance!

We congratulate Ryley and Danny Vojnikovich who have both been selected along with 26 other Athletes to represent Australia in the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands in November.

AFLW

Richmond v Adelaide

Monique Conti had 29 disposals, 5 tackles and kicked a goal in Richmond’s disappointing loss to the Adelaide Crows by 29 points. Monique was also named in the AFLW round 2 team of the week in the midfield.

Sydney v Geelong

Aliesha Newman kicked 3 goals 1, had 6 disposals and 4 tackles in Sydney’s 27-point loss at home to the Cats.  Georgie Prespakis had 15 disposals and an amazing 12 tackles for the victors.

Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn

Charlotte Baskaran has continued her good form to the start of the season having 16 disposals, 2 marks and 3 tackles in the Hawks 7-point win over the Dogs.  Jess Fitzgerald tried hard to help get the Bulldogs over the line with 20 possessions, 4 marks and 5 tackles.

Nth Melbourne v Carlton

Amy Smith had 8 disposals and 7 tackles in North Melbourne’s 60-point victory over the Blues.

Essendon v St Kilda

Essendon held on for a 12-point victory at Windy Hill over the Saints in its first senior club game at its spiritual home for 32 years.  For the Bombers Georgia Nanscawen had 13 disposals and 6 tackles while Georgia Patrikios finished off with 15 touches and 2 tackles

GWS v Melbourne

Melbourne claimed their 2nd win of the season by defeating GWS by 77 points on the road.  For the Demons Libby Birch had 6 disposals and a tackle, with the Giants only taking the ball inside 50, 29 times for the game.

AFL Finals

Collingwood v Melbourne

Joel Smith lined up for the Demons in their 7-point loss to the Pies.  Joel had 11 disposals, 1 goal and 5 marks.

Brisbane v Port Adelaide

Zak Butters had a solid game in a losing team with 29 disposals, 7 tackles and gained 599m for the Power in their 48-point loss to the Lions.  Cam Rainer kicked 3 goals 1 behind and had 16 possessions for Brisbane who now go straight into the Preliminary final.

The Score 060923

It’s been a big week for our Alumni with the start of the AFLW season and plenty more.  Here’s how they went.

Football

Connor Metcalfe is once again playing with FC St Pauli this season in the Bundesliga 2 competition in Germany.  So far FC St Pauli have drawn their first four matches of the season with Connor receiving a yellow card in the first two games of the season meaning he missed game 3 and started on the bench in game 4.

Barclays Women’s Championship

Polly Doran and her Crystal Palace teammates have started off the season with a 2nd round victory against Birmingham City 2-1.  Polly was on the field for the full 90 minutes.  In the first round of the Championship Crystal Palace had a 1 all draw with Reading. 

Bill Turner Cup

The Bill Turner Cup is a national schools Football Competition played annually.  Congratulations to our U15 Girls team who won the silver medal this year losing the final to Westfields Sports School 5-1, while our boys won the Bronze medal beating St Joesph’s 3-1.

American Football

2023 NCAA Punter of the year Adam Korsak is currently playing Gridiron in the Canadian Football League with professional team the Saskatchewan Roughriders.  Adam wasn’t selected in the NFL draft but did complete rookie minicamps with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The roughriders are currently sitting 3rd in their division with 8 games in the season to go.

NRLW

The West Tigers NRLW team has suffered its 5th loss in a row with Najvada George making 36 tackles in the game against the Titans.  On top of the tackles Najvada ran the ball 118 meters, had 6 missed tackles with 27 receipts of the ball in the 16-4 loss.

Para Table Tennis

Paralympian Nathan Pellissier has claimed more medals, this time at the Japan Para Open.  A silver in the mixed doubles and a Bronze in the Men’s doubles.  Nathan also made the quarter finals of the singles.

Australian Volleyball Super League

MSA Alumni Mikayla Adam and Caitlyn Waterfall are a part of the Victorian Vipers in the Australian Volleyball Super League.

The Vipers are sitting 3rd after 4 rounds with 2 wins and 2 losses with only a couple of games to go in the season.

AFLW

Melbourne v Collingwood

Libby Birch had 5 tackles in a solid defensive effort for the Demons who beat Collingwood by 7 goals.

Geelong v Bulldogs

Georgie Prespakis has started season 2023 the way she finished 2022, in great form.  34 disposals, 11 tackles, 10 clearances and 641 metres gained in the Cats 48- point victory over the Bulldogs who had Jess Fitzgerald with 18 possessions, 5 tackles and 3 clearances.

Hawthorn v Essendon

The Bombers won their match by 19 points with former MSA Hockey Coach Georgia Nanscawen with 21 possessions, 4 tackles and 6 clearances in her debut performance.  Charlotte Baskaran started the season with 14 disposals and 4 tackles.

North. Melbourne v St Kilda

The Kangaroos had a convincing 40-point victory against St Kilda with tackling machine Amy Smith having 8 tackles and 12 disposals in a tagging role against Georgia Petrikios who had 11 possessions.

Brisbane Lions v Richmond

An Injury concern to Monique Conti has soured the Tigers victory.  Monique had 26 disposals, 4 tackles and 8 clearances while Elle McKenzie had 15 possessions, 5 tackles and 325 meters gained.

Sydney v GWS

The Swans hung onto win by 5 points with Aliesha Newman having 8 disposals and kicking 1 goal 1.

Bill Turner Cup

Next week our Maribyrnong College U15 Boys and Girls football teams (Soccer) will make their way up to Newcastle for the Semi Finals and Final of the Bill Turner Cup, the largest football competition for secondary schools in Australia.

Around 850 school teams from NSW, Qld, ACT and Victoria participate each year, with all players 15 years and under.  The comp is a knockout format with early round matches starting in Term 1 each year. Bill Turner valued fitness, fun, fair play and the competition pays tribute to these values.  The Bill Turner Cup (open) is in its 44th year.  The Bill Turner Trophy (girls) is in its 32nd year in 2023.

MSA Football Head coach Adrian Mazzarella says it’s been a fantastic opportunity for our young Football athletes to play at such a high level of Competition. “It’s been a few years waiting and we have been unlucky in previous years, with Covid lockdowns really hurting our chances when competition was cancelled.  In the past few years, we have had trouble getting out of the Victorian pool, but we have done well this year, with both our boys and Girls teams getting through.  It’s a huge achievement for the program and it’s so exciting for the boys and girls going, because they will be playing against the best schools in the country, and it’s the first time in history we have had both boys’ and girls’ teams together in Newcastle for the finals. “

Our Boys team have made it through to the Semi Final by winning their way through the Albury Final 32 competition.  They beat Marion College 1-0 in their first game before defeating St John Paul II College 4-0 in the round of 16.  A quarter final win 2-0 over St Gregory’s has Maribyrnong playing Ipswich Grammar in the Semi Final.  A win in that game will have the boys playing either St Joseph’s Regional or Endeavour Sports in the final, the first time Maribyrnong College will have been in the final since 2012 where they went on to win the Bill Turner Cup that year.

Boys coach Brody Crane praising the effort of his boys in the tournament so far. “ It’s hard to say how the boys might perform next week because they will be coming up against the best sides in the comp from Queensland and New South Wales, and I expect they will be all tough sides. They have done a great job up to now, they are trying to play football the way I think that will help them be successful moving forward.  This team has risen to every challenge thrown at them so far, so hopefully we can keep playing the way we want to play and keep getting results.   “

Our Girls team have had a much easier run through to the semis, they won their lead in matches quite convincingly.  First up their group of 32 match and a 7-0 win against St Matthews Mudgee before a 10 goal plus win over Marian College.  Their quarter final match was also a 10 goal plus win over Holy Spirit, putting the Maribyrnong girls into the semi-final against Kelvin Grove, before a possible final match against either Westfield Sports or Merewether. A Maribyrnong College Girls football team has never made it to the grand final of the Trophy competition.

Coach Mazzarella says his Girls team has been so powerful in the leadup games.    “The girls’ team is extremely strong with very good players getting the chance to play together a lot more often, and they are really starting to gel and play some really exciting football on the pitch.  I think the girls should be confident about how they will perform next week. The Girls have only made the Newcastle stage once before and finished 4th. “ 

The Maribyrnong College girls play their semi-final on Tuesday the 5th of September at 10.30 then our boys play their semi at 1.30pm.  Both teams will then play again on Wednesday the 6th in their final match of the tournament.  A live stream is available for all games out of Newcastle at https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/live-streams.  A subscription to the Herald Sun or Kommunity TV is required.