Inter-school competitions & Sport
Year 8 Hockey Boys through to State Championships after winning Eastern Metro Region
L-R back row: Stephen Wong, Alex Lee, Dylan Llewellyn, Toby Griffith, Max Anastasiou, Rory Spicer, Riley McQuin
L-R front row: Ben Harding (vice captain), Robson McGee, Harrison Brindle (coach), Will Paull, James Peter-Budge, Vihaan Billimoria (absent from photo: Sal Ballan)
On Monday 21 October, the Koonung Boys Year 8 hockey team played in the Eastern Metro Region hockey tournament. We played two pool games and then a final.
Our first game was against Vermont Secondary College. The game was extremely close and we ended up winning 3-2, with goals to Max Anastasiou, and Rory. In the second game, which would decide who went through to the final, we took on Templestowe College, a game which was again quite close. Our goalkeeper, Riley McQuin, began a great run of form in this game, and didn’t concede a goal for the rest of the tournament. In this game Toby Griffith was extremely unlucky not to score a goal, but Rory and myself both scored to make it 2-0 at the final whistle.
In the final we played an incredibly strong Balwyn team, led by a state player. However. Vihaan Billimoria, Alex Lee, Stephen Wong, William Paull, James Peter-Budge and I were a very strong defensive unit and we looked forward to the challenge. The game was a tight tussle, but we got the breakthrough at about the 15 minute mark of the first half, by way of a perfect defensive sequence and a brilliant run and finish by Dylan Llewellyn. In the second half, we played almost purely defensively, and even after a few very scary moments, as well as a few amazing ones (such as Dylan’s stick being knocked out of his hands and stopping the ball’s path to a Balwyn forward), we prevailed 1-0 winners.
Our team wasn’t carried, but was inspired by our captain, Robson McGee, who used his spectacular skill a few (rather than ‘a few’, I suggest something like ‘at crucial’ or ‘at decisive’ or ‘at pivotal’ or at critical’ or something else you choose) times throughout the day.
All in all, it was an amazing day, and our team is now preparing for the State Hockey Finals to be played later this term.
Ben Harding 8D, Vice Captain
Year 8 Basketball
Congratulations to our Year 8 Boys Basketball team who were runners-up the Eastern Metropolitan Finals last week.
Training well under way for Great Victorian Bike Ride
This year our Great Victorian Bike Ride team will be led by Anthony Hasseldine. They featured in last week's Leader newspaper. We look forward to hearing more about their journey in upcoming newsletters.
Anthony Hasseldine
Learning Specialist in eLearning and Digital Systems, and
STEAM Program Leader
Students continue their success in sport
Allira Howe has touched on the successes of Sophie Zarafa and Johnny Suares in her Middle years report in this newsletter. Congratulations also to Nanako Masuda (11D) who was 3rd in a recent EMR javelin competition.
