SPORT NEWS
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
On Wednesday 5 December, 13 Year 9 McKinnon students attended International Day of People with Disabilities hosted at GESAC in conjunction Marriott Services.
The students were involved in interacting with disabled people by playing and assisting with coaching in a wide variety of different sports. These included wheel chair AFL, netball, basketball, dancing, cricket, softball, wheelchair tennis, soccer and gymnastics.
Congratulations to all the students who attended this event and making a difference and a special day.
James Bridges
Coach
2XU TRIATHLON SERIES
On Sunday 25 November a group of Year 7 & 8 Female Triathletes competed in the 2XU Triathlon Series held at Elwood Beach. Waking up early the girls were up and ready to go for their 7:25am race start. With the swimming leg cancelled due to the rain, the girls had to complete a 750m run, 7 km bike ride and then a 1.2 km run. The girls had the opportunity to complete the course individually or in a team of three.
McKinnon were represented well with our best result coming from Monique Andjelic (Year 8) who finished with a speedy time of 29:19 placing 16th for her age group. Other times for the day included Stephanie Gould (Year 8) completing the course in great time of 33.31 and the team of Ruby Powell, Holly Langley and Rose McCallum (all Year 8) finishing with a super time of 33.43.
Well Done Girls!
Congratulations to all who competed as the first McKinnon Triathlon team. There are five other races over summer. If you are interested head to the 2XU Triathlon website.
Tim Blackwood
Coach
YEAR 7 BOYS CRICKET
On Monday 26 November the Year 7 Boys Cricket Team travelled to Warragul to play in the State Quarter Final against Marist-Sion College. In a reduced 15 over a side match McKinnon batted first and made a total of 79 with Thivi Salwathura making 48 not out. McKinnon then bowled well and in turn restricted Marist-Sion to 60 advancing us to the State Finals to be played on Wednesday.
On Wednesday 28 November the boys ventured to Northcote to play in the State Semi-Final and Final. In the Semi-Final McKinnon came up against Bendigo South East. Batting first McKinnon amassed a total of 147 off our 20 overs with Lewis Sellenger the highlight making 73. We then bowled and were able to keep Bendigo to 103 off their 20 overs therefore advancing the boys to the State Final to be played against Maribyrnong. In the State Final we lost the toss and bowled first against the strong Maribyrnong side who were looking in good form early in their innings however some late wickets to us restricted them to a competitive score of 7/130. Coming out to bat the boys were confident until the loss of regular wickets stemmed the run flow and Maribyrnong were able to restrict us to 7/82.
Overall, the boys had a great year ultimately finishing as State Runners Up for 2018.
Well Done Boys!
Tim Oaten/Tim Blackwood
Coaches
YEAR 7 GIRLS TABLE TENNIS STATE FINALS
Congratulations to the Year 7 Girls Table Tennis team, consisting of Azumi Hosako, Alessia Frantzis, Valeria Camacho-Acevedo, Amy Wilkins and Casandra Joseph, for representing McKinnon Secondary College at the Table Tennis State Finals that were held on Wednesday 21 November at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.
In the round robin pool stage, the girls beat Mary MacKillop Leongatha six rubbers to nil in the first round. They then won their second round contest against Mercy Regional College 4-2, before losing to eventual state runners up Balwyn High School 1-5 in the third round. This placed the girls second in their pool and set up a semi-final showdown against eventual state champions Girton Grammar which they lost 0-6. The girls place equal 3rd in the state and should be very proud of their efforts.
Deon Weingarten
Coach
TABLE TENNIS STATE FINALS
The following Year 8 Boys Haruku Nishikawa, Kevin Feng, Zong Yu Li, Aaron Zachariah, Shuangming Guo and Andrew Seamer represented McKinnon in the State Final that was held on 30 November at MSAC.
In the preliminary rounds they defeated Wonthaggi Secondary College and Mercy Regional College Camperdown winning both six matches to nil.
They were defeated by a strong Mount Waverley Secondary College (last year’s State Champions) five matches to one.
This placed the boys in the Semi-Final against Sirius College (last year’s Runners Up).
They won four matches to two in which some of the matches were very close.
The win placed the boys in the Final against Mount Waverley.
They lost four matches to nil, however, most of the matches were very close compared to the previous round.
Congratulations to these boys for being Runners-Up in the State.
The following Year 7 Boys Kanato Sato, Kar Wei Kwong, Ashton Eikelis, Ryan Kaminsky and Shuban Balamurugan also represented McKinnon in the State Final.
In the first preliminary round they were defeated by Wonthaggi Secondary College four matches to two.
In the second preliminary round they defeated Mercy Regional College Camperdown winning six matches to nil.
In the third preliminary round they were just defeated by Glen Waverley Secondary College.
It was three matches all so it came down to games where the boys lost 12 games to 11 games.
Congratulations to these boys for being fifth in the State.
Ray Braniska and Deon Weingarten
Coaches