Sport

2026 BAS Swim Report

The SPC Swim Team hit the Ballarat Aquatic Centre on Tuesday, 28 April for an afternoon of races against other Ballarat schools in the BAS Swim Carnival. 

Our team consisted of 30-plus students and each member swam their best. Swimming is an elite sport where swimmers can train up to 10 times a week. Our swimmers that train regularly can hold their heads high. They swam fast and were placed well. Our swimmers who are natural swimmers and may not train anymore also placed mostly in the top three or four in their events.

Results are listed below as are the outstanding individual race winners. You will see that the differences between places are very close. Congratulations to all involved — third place overall is a solid result.

Boys - Team Scores

Senior

1. Ballarat Grammar - 151 points
2. Ballarat Clarendon College - 144 points
3. St Patrick's College - 141 points
4. Damascus College - 92 points
5. Phoenix College - 70 points

Boys - Team Scores

Inter

1. Ballarat Grammar - 239 points
2. Ballarat Clarendon College - 212 points
3. St Patrick's College - 208 points
4. Damascus College - 160 points
5. Phoenix College - 54 points
6. Ballarat High School - 36 points

Boys - Team Scores

Junior

1. Ballarat Grammar - 307 points
2. Ballarat Clarendon College - 302 points
3. St Patrick's College - 282 points
4. Damascus College - 215 points
5. Phoenix College - 94 points
6. Ballarat High School - 55 points

Boys - Team Scores

Overall

1. Ballarat Grammar - 606 points
2. Ballarat Clarendon College - 561 points
3. St Patrick's College - 535 points
4. Damascus College - 398 points
5. Phoenix College - 179 points
6. Ballarat High School - 108 points

Individual and relay A races: 1st 16 points, 2nd 14 points, 3rd 12 points

Individual B and C races: 1st 8 points, 2nd 7 points, 3rd 6 points

Outstanding Individual performances: 

• Year 8 Bryce Scott – 1st 50m Backstroke, 1st 50m Butterfly and 1st 50m Freestyle. Bryce also represented BAS at recent VSAC 2026.
• Year 9 Liam Weissenfeld – 1st 50m Backstroke, 50m Freestyle, 2nd Butterfly, 2nd Freestyle Relay (Liam, Joe Knobel, Jack Sims, Jack Ward)
• Year 10 Noah Connell – 2nd 50m Freestyle
• Year 12 Miller Stott – 1st 50m Freestyle, 3rd Open 100m
• Year 12 Blake Scott – 1st 50m Backstroke A, 1st 50m Breaststroke, 2nd 50m Freestyle
• Year 12 Matt Mace – 1st 50m Backstroke B, 2nd 50m Breaststroke, 2nd 50m Freestyle
• Matt, Blake, Miller and Ollie Daykin – Open 200m Medley 1st
• Matt, Blake, Miller and Cam Belleville – Open 200m Freestyle Relay 2nd

Well done to all swimmers who represented the school at this competition.

Ms Louise Macquire, Swimming Co-ordinator

ACC Soccer

Whitefriars College 2 lost to St Patrick’s College 4

On Wednesday, 20 May, the St Patrick's College First XI Soccer team made the five-hour round trek to Donvale for the fourth consecutive year to face off against long-time rivals, Whitefriars College. 

Both teams this year had been vocal about their ambitions for the premiership, so the game had significantly more emotional weight to it than other fixtures. This weight was apparent right from the warm-up, where the Whitefriars squad loudly remarked that the St Pat's boys looked intimidated and unprepared for the contest ahead. 

As the game started, there seemed to be some truth to their words, as the home team took the lead within the opening 10 minutes. The St Pat's boys, however, were undeterred—and as it turns out, far from intimidated—with Jacob Wise scoring an equaliser before half time to tie up the score. 

As the first half came to a close, the tension of the game rose immeasurably. Rain started pouring down as the home school’s lunch-time began and an audience of students started similarly pouring down to watch the game. Some questionable refereeing saw Sashe Kambasha red carded for not understanding an instruction, then for possibly the first time in footballing history, Sashe had his red-card revoked due to pleading from his coaching team. 

The half-time team talk for the St Pat's boys was heckled relentlessly by the home crowd, who were becoming particularly unruly. The second half began with thundering cheers as Whitefriars took the lead once more, but it was a combination of goals from Jack Swan and Jacob Wise again that flipped the result and silenced the crowd. 

A solid performance from Daniel Crockett in the midfield, as well as some important tackles from Jayden Dzanya and Charlie Pope (who celebrated each of his team’s goals by cupping his ears at the crowd) kept the Whitefriars attack from equalising, until Ollie Behrens scored late to seal the game for St Pat's. 

Pietro Angeli, ACC Soccer coach