Sports Report

Intermediate Basketball

On Friday 23rd August , the intermediate and Year 7 teams for both boys and girls competed in the Interschool Basketball Competition for a chance to play again down in Bendigo next month. There were seven schools participating and each team played two other schools in their pool to get to a crossover finals game. St. Joseph’s was amazing, with every team topping their pool and going straight into the grand final crossover.

Unfortunately, the Intermediate Teams and Year 7 Boys’ team were unsuccessful, all in close games. The Year 7 Girls, however, completely dominated their final and blew the competition out of the water, winning easily to make the Zone Finals.

Congratulations to all students involved (you were all amazing) and we can’t wait to see how far the Year 7 girls can go in Term 4!

Year 8 State Champions

An early 6:30 am start didn't dampen the spirits of the Joey's boys on their way to Cragieburn. The boys jumped off the bus into the freezing Melbourne conditions ready and raring to go. 

The St. Joe's boys were kicking against the wind in the first quarter and into quarter time only a single goal down, with a big goal from Gus Toll keeping the boys in the game.

The second term saw Oskar Smartt-Gretgrix and Noah Langborne taking control and becoming damaging off the half back line and through the middle of the ground, but the Rowville boys put up a fight to keep the margin to a goal at half-time. 

Rowville jumped St. Joe's in the third, getting repeat entries and kicked a few big goals to get two goals on top going into the last change.

The scene was set in the last for someone to take the game by the horns, and Harley Reid did so, kicking two massive goals and getting it out of the middle consistently. Last quarter goals from Finn Hatfield, Alan O'Neill and Noah Turner gave the boys the advantage kicking with the wind. Once they gained the lead - they couldn’t be stopped in the last, running over their opposition to the tune of 15 points, and weren’t they happy with it! The celebrations lasted the whole bus trip back to Echuca!  The better players for the day were Harley Reid named Best On Ground, Noah Langborne, Gus Toll and Oskar Smartt-Gretgrix.  

A terrific effort from the support staff, parent/helpers, Josh Dempster, Will Rohde and Taj Ritchie made the day a huge success.

A true team effort!