Sports News

Year 9/10 Cricket

Our Yr 9/10 boys and girls cricket teams competed in the Divisional Competition on Tuesday February 20. There was one game only for both teams against Thornbury.

Congratulations to our boys who defeated Thornbury by 45 runs after a very long and hot day at Donath Reserve.  Our opening partnership of Alex Johnston and Julian Marshall worked together beautifully to get some runs on the board early. As we moved through the order the all of boys batted steadily to finish off with 160 runs.  In the field Luke Williams took a diving catch at point and Joel Stevens took 3 wickets.  Well done to the team and thank you to Mr Lethborg for helping out on the day umpiring and assisting the team.  Thanks to Mr Thompson for coaching and selecting the side.

Unfortunately our girls were not quite strong enough for the Thornbury team who finished off defeating us by 23 runs.  Well done to the girls, they were great sports throughout the whole day. Thank you to Rory Bennie who, despite an injury, came along to help out with umpiring all day.

Year 7 Cricket

Well done to our Yr 7 Boys cricket team who, on Monday afternoon narrowly defeated Thornbury in the last match to finish off the Divisional round.  Our boys batted first and came out strong with Connor Hastings as opening batman high scoring to start the match and Stan Nicholson coming in further down the order to boost the runs also. As we moved through the order the boys kept the momentum going and finished off the innings with Thornbury needing to chase 80 our runs.  Although Thornbury were batting steadily and finished off strong they couldn’t quite catch Northcote just falling short by 3 runs. Thank you to our Student coach Ethan Mackenzie for his help with the team, coaching, umpiring and scoring.  The team now moves through to Regionals which are to be played in Term 4.

Coming up

Tuesday March 6 :             VCE Divisional Volleyball, Yr 8  Divisional Tennis, Yr 9/10 Regional Cricket

Tuesday March 13:            Yr 7-10 Divisional Baseball

Wednesday March 14:     NHS Athletics Carnival

Thursday March 15:          Divisional Swimming Carnival