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First XIII Rugby League

The Saints First XIII travelled to Townsville to play the Semi-Final of the Aaron Payne Cup in the curtain raiser to the Cowboys vs Broncos NRL clash at Queensland Country Bank stadium. Coming off a strong finish to the regular season, the boys came up against a strong Kirwan squad. The boys started strong, Sam Jonsen scoring the first try within two minutes, jumping onto a kick from Jesse Ziegler to take a 6-0 lead. Saints maintained the pressure on Kirwan before Kirwan wrestled momentum back to take an 18-6 lead into half time. Saints had a hot start to the second half with Cayde Miller scoring off a well-timed short ball from Lucas Russell, taking the score to 18-10. Kirwan’s strike power proved too much to overcome during the whole 60 minutes as they scored late tries to take the score out to 38-10. Well done to Mr O’Farrell and his team on a successful season.

Congratulations to First XIII captain, Jack Rix and First XIII back and U15s captain, Xavier Lallemand on being named in their respective teams of the tournament and to Noah Dowdle who received the Lionel Williamson Award for player of the year. Thanks to Mr O’Farrell for the time and effort that you have put into training the squad this season.

Cricket

St Augustine’s Intermediate and Senior Cricket teams competed in the North Queensland finals of the Streetsmarts Cricket competition during Week 7.

Saints First XI team took on Ignatius Park who batted first, setting a target of 112 runs. St Augustine's bowlers delivered a strong performance, with standout contributions from Thomas King (2/16 off 4 overs), Seth McGinty (2/10 off 3 overs), Patrick Spillane (2/16 off 2 overs), Archie Ferguson (1/18 off 3 overs), Charlie Lawrence (1/9 off 1 over), and Ryan Scarborough (1/11 off 1 over).

In response, Saints were bowled out for 104 in the 18th over. Notable efforts with the bat came from Seth McGinty, who scored 39 runs, and Harry Halpin, who added 26.

With this match, the 2024 campaign cam to an end. Thank you to our Year 12 players—Seth McGinty, Harry Halpin, and Henry King—for their invaluable contributions to the team.

Saints Intermediate team put up an impressive total of 3/159, with Samson Pittorino leading the charge with a stellar 79, supported by Ian De Lange’s 20. In response, the opposition crumbled, all out for just 44 runs. Xavier Curtain delivered a standout bowling performance, taking 3/7, while Ashton Salerno contributed with 2/3.

Congratulations to the boys on their victory! Saints will now face the winner of Rockhampton and Wide Bay at the QLD state finals in Brisbane next week. Good Boys!

FNQ Schools Futsal Titles

St Augustine's entered teams into all age groups of the FNQ School Futsal titles last week. Our U13, 14, 15, 16 and opens teams all won their respective age groups with our 12-year old’s bowing out in the semis-finals. Thank you to Mr Darveniza, Mr McDonough and Mr Elliott for coaching the teams on the day.

JSS Sport

Our JSS teams have got off to a hot start to this season with our AFL, Basketball, Football and Touch Football teams all undefeated and sitting at the top of the ladder. Our volleyball team are sitting mid-table in 5th and are looking to force their way into the top 4 teams before the finals.

Round 2 saw Saints take on competition newcomes, Newman College. Our AFL and Touch teams secured strong victories as our Football and Basketball teams won their close encounters. Unfortunately, our volleyball boys when down in a nail biter in the third set.

Saints travelled to Woree SHS in round 3 and again achieved an impressive 4 victories from 5 matches. Our AFL, Football and Touch teams comfortably won their fixtures with our basketball team surviving a late comeback to secure a one point victory. Unfortunately, our volleyball team was unable to match Woree's experienced team, going down 2-0.

Week 9 Saints hosted St. Andrew's at home, achieving a perfect round with victories in each of our fixtures. The boys will play St Mary's next week in our last match of the term hoping to claim another perfect round before the holidays.

JSS Round 2 vs Newman College

Sport	Result	MVP
AFL	47-15	Will Palmer
Basketball	41-35	Jaiden Woolcott
Football	3-1	Ruben Trevino
Touch	18-0	Ash Summers
Volleyball	1-2	Jordi Stowers

JSS Round 3 vs Woree SHS

Sport	Result	MVP
AFL	60-35	Gus Quilty
Basketball	37-36	Lucas Brierley
Football	6-2	Benjamin Maher
Touch	9-0	Jaxon Day
Volleyball	0-2	Dylan Wright

JSS Round 4 vs St Andrews

Sport	Result	MVP
AFL	73-6	Matthew Rowbotham
Basketball	48-21	Jesse Snelling
Football	2-0	Ben Bridgman
Touch	8-5	Peter Yamashita
Volleyball	2-0	Dylan Wright

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