Senior School Sport

• Basketball
• Cricket
• NSTA Tennis

Basketball

C Teams: The Bus to Blue Mountains Grammar will leave from Anderson St at 6:45am. Students need to be at school by 6:30am. The bus will return around 3:00pm.

The Firsts had a good win over a young and enthusiastic Chevalier Firsts on Saturday. The fourth quarter was once again our best quarter of the match. Overall it was a tough day for St Pius X College teams with losses outweighing wins.

I have seen a lot of positive energy at trainings and I hope we can maintain that effort over the next few weeks as we reach the half way point in our season.

Game of the day:  13Bs with an Away win against St Stanislaus’ at Bathurst

Play of the day:  Cameron Bragg got his first 3 pointer in only his third game of Basketball

Deserves a mention: 

Chris Zilifian, Will Halliday – 13A;  Angus Paterson – 13B

Mihir Mathur, Issac Nistico – 13E;  Frank Houlihan, Elliot Cook – 13F

Ben Kafer, Nick Biefeld – 14A;  Austin Cleary – 14B;  Jamie Dobles, Alex Oey – 14E

Ethan Field, Charlie Crnek – 15A;  Patrick Baker – 17E

Zack Wylie, Lachlan Green, Will Clark – 17F; Jono Moait – 1sts;  Stefan Naprta – 5ths

Student Referees Course

The College will be running a free two-afternoon course at the Chatswood campus for boys interested in becoming a basketball referee.  The dates are Monday 20th and Monday 27th November from 3.30pm until 5.00pm.  This will be an official qualification that candidates will be able to use to earn some pocket money.

Use the link below to see all of the ISA Basketball Teams Results:

http://www.isa.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/boys-basketball/

Mr N Gibson -  Senior Basketball Convenor

Cricket

1st XI v St Patrick’s College – ISA Round 3, Saturday 4 November 2017

Winning the toss and electing to bat on a wet day didn’t go as planned for the 1st XI.  At 0/19 when rain first interrupted play the start looked promising.  After 40 minutes play restarted and SPC asserted dominance taking six quick wickets leaving the 1st XI reeling at 6/38 before rain once again interrupted play.  Luckily for the 1st XI the rain set in and the match was abandoned at 3pm.

Mr D Reay - Convenor

Match Reports

NSTA Tennis

ROUND 3:  It was a chilly and damp start to the morning, with ominous clouds looming.  However the boys braved the weather and made their way onto the courts. As everyone was warming up the rain started  so the boys left the courts but fortunately the rain was short lived and the games began.

We had one St Pius X College vs St Pius X College game this week and as usual it was an exciting one, with SPX of course victorious. It was great to see the improvement from Luca and Aiden in their matches with some excellent rallies by both boys in their singles. Michael Chan and Tom Ryan proved hard to beat in their singles matches with both boys securing speedy wins against Reddam. A great first session ended with SPX winning 5 of the 5 morning games!

Unfortunately the rain began again just before 10am and we waited for a break which didn’t come. All games then had to be called off. A special thanks to Nikita who rushed over to Talus Street after welcoming the new Year 5 and 6 boys for 2018 at their orientation at school.

A reminder that all boys by now should be in full school tennis uniform each week: school sports shirt, plain white shorts, white socks, school tracksuit if it’s cold and school hat.

Mrs S Iwatani - NSTA Convenor