Senior School Sport & Extra-Curricula Activities
- Congratulations on our 2022 Sporting Achievements
- Senior Cricket
- Senior Basketball
- NSTA Tennis
- Squash
- Senior Swimming
- SPX Football Supporters' Club
Congratulations on our 2022 Sporting Achievements.
We take this opportunity to congratulate all our students, former students and staff for their outstanding sportsmanship in 2022. This image was placed in the recent Catholic Weekly.
Senior Cricket
Term 4 Team Training Days
Monday – 1st and 2nd XI (until 5.30 pm)
Tuesday – U15/17 (until 5.00 pm)
Wednesday – 1st and 2nd XI (until 5.30 pm)
Thursday – U13 and U14 (Senior school students – until 5.00 pm), U12 and U13 (during Junior School Sport)
All training is at Oxford Falls and conducted by Cricket Appeal.
PE uniform or SPX Cricket uniform to be worn.
Buses depart from OLD Church at 3.20 pm and return to Anderson St at approx. 5.30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6.00 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
MWJCA Round 10 Fixtures – Saturday 26 November 2022
SPX Blue v CPCC Sparks (1.00 pm start)
SPX Gold v Beacon Hill Blasters (8.00 am start)
SPX Red v Wakehurst Black (8.00 am start)
SPX Green v Forest Falcons (8.00 am start)
SPX Orange v Peninsula Heat (8.00 am start)
SPX Purple v Wakehurst Red (8.00 am start)
Players are asked to check PlayHQ to confirm venues in case of late changes or allocations by MWJCA.
ISA Round 6 Fixtures – Saturday 26 November 2022
1st XI v St Augustine’s College @ Oxford Falls #1 (10.00 am start)
2nd XI v St Patrick’s College @ Breen Oval, Strathfield (10.00 am start)
1st XI (6/96) v St Stanislaus’ College (10/95) @ Bathurst – Saturday 19 November 2022
The 1st XI made its annual trip over the mountains and were greeted by a sunny day in the Central West. A hard, dry wicket made batting first an obvious choice; the home side won the toss and did just that. A lush outfield meant that scoring was difficult against the 1st XI attack. The attack led by Jess Mansbridge (1-17 from 10 overs) who brought one back from off to bowl a bemused opener and Mitch McGrath (1-16). Flynn Pavley (1-13) took the third wicket before Andrew May (5-17) bowled two impressive spells of fast and full bowling which saw four of his victims clean bowled. Captain, Joel Austin, contributed an important 5 over spell of 2 wickets for just one run as St Stanislaus was bowled out for 95. Catches were taken by Oli Freeman, Manas Bansal, Mitch McGrath, Lachlan Jursevic and Darcy Aylmer. The smallish target seemed a long way away when the 1st XI collapsed to 5 for 35! Tom Lough (23 not out) and Oli Freeman (39) put on 60 to see the scores level when Oli was out caught. The match winning partnership featured sensible batting, deft placement, and aggressive running between the wickets. With one round to play prior to Christmas, against St Augustine’s, the 1st XI is looking to strongly finish a very good term of cricket.
Results – Saturday 19 November 2022
SPX Blue - 8/118 defeated by Harbord Sharks 7/119
SPX Gold - 4/225 defeated Peninsula Thunder 8/67
SPX Red - BYE
SPX Green - 7/132 defeated St Augustine’s Gold 10/94
SPX Orange - No result entered
SPX Purple 8/105 defeated by Harbord Boomerangs 6/148
2nd XI 10/203 defeated Chevalier College 9/131
1st XI 6/96 defeated St Stanislaus’ College 10/95 – see match report
Mr David Reay - Cricket Convenor
Senior Basketball
This Saturday is the final week of Basketball this term before the Christmas break. Last week proved a tough round against St Augustine’s and Oakhill, though many games were decided by less than 2 scores, including the 14A, 15A and 17C. Our C/D lines performed strongly with the 3rds, 4ths, 15C, 15D, 14C, 14D, 13C and 13D all winning. Other successful teams were the 15F, 14F, 14H and 13E.
*Please find all Round 5 results on the ISA Sport App. Filter by both School (SPX) and Sport (Basketball Boys) using the icon next to the whistle in the top right corner.
Our season continues with Round 6 this Saturday as per the draw below.
Please be aware of the ISA Code of Conduct for players and spectators. We have high expectations of our young men in their sporting representative roles, especially around behaviour, sportsmanship, attendance and uniform (SPX gear ONLY on Saturdays)
Key dates:
- Mon 30 Jan 2023 (first day back at school) - Training Resumes
- Sat 4 Feb 2023 – Competition resumes – ISA Round 7
Training:
The final Oxford Falls session for the term is today: Wednesday 23 November. Oxford Falls is unavailable on Thursday 24 due to our Founder’s Day Festival and so there will be no A/B team training on this day.
Chatswood training concludes on Friday 25 Nov as per the schedule below.
Game Video: Each week I have 3 games filmed on Court 1, generally the 1sts or 2nds and the two preceding fixtures. This week we will film the 14C, 15C and 17C games. Last weekend we filmed the 13A, 17A and 1st V. Full games and highlight packages here.
Team Lists:
Teams for the ISA Season can be found here:
Season Draw:
This ‘SPX Season Draw 2022/23’ below is a working DRAFT document.
Navigate to each week using the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet. Times and venues will be added each week and the FINAL version for the upcoming Saturday is posted via this link each week in Woodchatta.
Venues for the week are also on this draw.
NB. Age Groups correlate to school year, apart from 1st and 2nd V.
Therefore: 13’s = Yr 7, 14’s = Yr 8, 15’s = Yr 9, 17’s = Yr 10, Opens = Yr 11
17 B Basketball Team
Mr Greg Virgona - Basketball Convenor
NSTA Tennis
It was another exciting week at Talus St last week which marked the end of the first 5 rounds; this weekend we are heading into the Finals and Play-Offs. All teams will be playing this weekendexcept those teams that only had 5 teams in their division. In these divisions the team that placed 5th will have a BYE.
Please ensure that you are checking your weekly scores, rankings and draw on the Xpoint site: https://www.xpointsports.com/region/325/currentEvents
SPX 29 – Sebastian DalMolin and Lachlan McGrath vs SPX 31 – Jayden Kwok and Christian Sorrentino was the match to watch at 8.00 am. It was such a close match with both teams winning 12 games, however SPX 31 won 2 sets making them the overall winners. Jason Bau and Jayden Meguerditchian, SPX 27, dominated the court winning 18 games to 2. Marcus Ulevik, Justin Lee and Alex Kim, SPX 25 played an excellent match against Cammeraygal 5, winning all 3 sets. Thanks must also go to Jack Costa who stepped up into Division 1 at the last minute helping Samuel Hernandez Martinez. Thank you to Antony Autore, Oliver Johnston and Jake Yu who helped out with mentoring and umpiring.
The 10.00 am games are usually pretty quiet but this week we had some really exciting matches. Izaac Tan and Lucas Halim SPX 1 had a great week this week winning 17 games to 12 games. Adrian Yip, Boston Bannister and Jake Yu SPX 3 played some excellent games against SPX 4 to win 15 games to 8. Cooper and Spencer Anderson had the twin advantage again winning all 3 sets against SPX 7.
Mrs Sam Iwatani - NSTA Convenor
Squash
The sixth week (also mid-season finals) of squash was played in earnest at Thornleigh last Saturday. The results were as follows:
DIV 1: SPX 1 V. BRIARS 2 win by points 72-69
DIV 2: SPX 2 V. BALGOWLAH 1 loss by matches 2-0
DIV 3: SPX 3 V. BARKER 2 loss by games 5-3
DIV 4: SPX 4 V. ST ANDREWS 1 loss by matches 2-0
DIV 4: SPX 5 V. FORT ST 1 loss by games 4-3
DIV 6: SPX 6 V. BRIARS 10 loss by matches 2-0
DIV 6: SPX 7 V. BRIARS 9 win by games 5-3
Mr Joseph Madani - Squash Convenor
SPX Football Supporters' Club
NEW TREASURER
Welcome to Geoff Linders, who will be joining the SPX Football Supporters' Club as Treasurer in 2023.
Thank you to Cathy Thomson who is stepping down as Club Treasurer in 2022, after many years in this role.
RAFFLE
The “Sizza Boom Bah 2022 Football Raffle” has been drawn. Congratulations to the winning students. The SPX Football Supporters Club would like to thank Coerver Coaching for their generous prize contribution of six 1:1 football coaching sessions. Please see the below message from the College regarding further raffle details.
FOOTBALL CLUB RAFFLE
At the Assembly on Monday 14 November 2022 the Football Club Raffle was drawn. The prizes and winners were
1st Prize - Coerver Coaching 1:1 Voucher for 5 Sessions
Additional gifts "Under Armor" Sports Bag; "2022 World Cup"
Football; St Pius X Baseball Cap & Sports whistle
Winner: Hamish Dewhurst - Year 8
2nd Prize - CoerverCoaching1:1Voucherfor1Session Rebel Gift Card -$100
Additional gifts "2022 World Cup" Football & Sports whistle
Winner: Bradley Balfour - Year 7
3rd Prize - Rebel Gift Card -$50
Additional gifts Microfibre Gym Towel & "Nike" drink bottle
Winner: Jack Manning-O'Donnell - Year 8
Congratulations to the winners. The College wishes to thank Coerver Coaching, Cathy Thompson and all the Football Club Committee. Thanks to all who supported this raffle.
All proceeds raised by the raffle will be used to support the Football related activities of students.
Mrs Lorna Hammond - SPX Football Supporters' Club President