Sport

Clay Target Shooting

On Wednesday, April 24, College competed against other schools at the Colac Clay Target shooting school competition. Despite some cold and wet weather, it was a great day out; students competed well with College, taking home the shield reflecting the awesome efforts of everyone who participated.

We saw some great scores, especially from Lachlan Pringle, who scored 19/20; Harry Brown, who scored 17/20; Lachlan Veale, who scored 14/20; and Jordan Dwyer, Libby Diprose, and Ben Vallance, who scored 13/20.

Another great score from Annabel Funcke, shooting 10/20, leading her into a shoot-off where she shot 3/5 and took home 1st place.

Harry Brown took home first in Senior Boys, and Lachlan Pringle won overall high gun for the shoot. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a great start to our competition season, and we are looking forward to what the rest of the year brings.

Libby Diprose and Lachie Pringle, 2024 Shooting Captains

Cross Country

On Friday the 19th May, we inaugurated the Senior House Cross Country event at Parklands Gold Club. Congratulations to all students on their effort and willingness to compete on a new course. I would like to extend a special thanks to Sile Legoe, Claire Quinn and Emma Cush for their assistance with marshalling, and, I am deeply appreciative of Bruce and the Parklands Golf Club committee for allowing us to run (especially on a competition day!). 

Upcoming sport dates

Monday 6th May - GD Cross Country - Casterton 

Thursday 9th May - ICCES Athletics - Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne. 

Students in year 9 who are attending the Melbourne camp will have the opportunity to meet at Lakeside Stadium to compete in their events and then return to their camp groups upon conclusion. More information to come.

Monday 13th May - Senior (11/12) boys AFL

Thursday 16th May - Intermediate (9/10) boys AFL

Hockey

Division 5

College Black Panthers defeated Demons 2-0 in an entertaining match.  

Daisy Tigges and George Whinney scored for Black Panthers. A very exciting first game, which was approached with enthusiasm and zest.  It was fantastic to see all those new to hockey leave the field with smiles and our more experienced players supporting and encouraging them. Best on ground for the Black Panthers was Chelsea Pickford.

Division 4

College Foxes had a hard-fought 1-0 win over Coleraine Gold.  

Max Cameron scored the only goal of the game.  Best on ground for Foxes was Theo Horne. College Wolves went down 5-1 to a strong Dunkeld side.  Oscar Hawthorne scored a nice short corner goal.  Best on ground for Wolves was Finn Hawthorne.

Division 1 Men's Hockey

The College team recorded a fine 6-1 victory over an undermanned Rams team last Sunday.  Goal scorers were Isaac Shaw (2), Ciaran Nelson (2), Tom Templeton and Mr Ben Hawthorne.

Whilst this was a pleasing first-up effort, there were definite signs of a long time since our previous game, and so there are a number of areas to work on.

Before the game, we spoke about Mrs Robertson’s three keywords from last week: integrity, Persistence, and Curiosity. The team scored a clear pass on the first two. Regarding curiosity, we remain unclear about how good a team we can be, and we need to remain curious as we work to find out!

Mr Neil MacLean

This week’s matches:

Division 1

• College Men v Coleraine Jakabytes - Sunday 28 April, 1.30pm at Pedrina Park
• College Women v Coleraine Black - Friday 26 April, 6.00pm at Pedrina Park

Under 16

• College Gold v College White - Saturday, 27 April, 9.00am at Pedrina Park

Division 4

• Foxes v Wolves - Saturday, 27 April, 2.00 pm at Neil MacLean Field (College)

Division 5 

• Black Panthers v Dunkeld 5s - Saturday, 27 April,1.00 pm at Pedrina Park
• Tigers v Coleraine Maroon - Saturday, 27 April,12.00 pm at Pedrina Park