Sport
Netball
St Mary’s had four teams competing in the Netball NSW Cup at Armidale last week. Usually, we would compete in the round hosted by Narrabri but a clash of dates resulted in us going to Armidale to play this year. The change had some benefits as there were many more teams at Armidale than Narrabri with teams from Uralla Central School, Armidale Secondary College, Inverell High School, New England Girls School and O’Connor Catholic College Armidale.
St Mary’s had teams in the 7/8 Girls, 7/8 Boys, 9/10 Boys and 9/10 Girls competing to try and qualify for the regional finals at Tamworth in the last week of this term with the top two teams going through. The Year 7/8 Girls went through the day undefeated playing exciting netball throughout the day. The Year 7/8 Boys improved enormously throughout the day to finish runners-up and qualify for the regional final. The Year 9/10 Girls finished a close second in their pool and then lost narrowly in their final to the winner of the other pool. The Year 9/10 Boys played entertaining netball throughout the day and had some great wins along the way but too many close losses meant they missed the finals.
The most pleasing aspect of the day was the high standard of competition and our teams were right in the mix in all divisions. After weeks of training on the school courts the Armidale courts posed some challenges to the boys in particular but they quickly adapted to the different courts.
Thanks to our team managers Miss Brooks, Miss Stanley, Mr Kennedy and Mr Carlyon and a huge thanks to Meysades Sullivan and Lily Maxwell who did a great job umpiring throughout the day. Without our umpires we would not have been able to play and it’s often a thankless job.
House Sports
Over 200 people participated in last week’s lunchtime sport with soccer at the Oval. This week will see the finals for soccer with the Opens on Wednesday & the Juniors on Friday.
The latest points update for the House Lunchtime Sport competition is Lourdes 373, Mercy 737, Loreto 801 & McAuley 813.
With just 2 weeks left it looks like a battle between McAuley & Loreto for the John Lennan Trophy this year.
Horse Sports
Five St. Mary's students from the horse sports team travelled to Coonabarabran for St. Lawrence's Horse Sports event.
Ella Ratcliffe (year 7), Bo Burgess (year 8), Jazmin Hobden (year 8), Rylee Mitchell (year 11) and Courtney Hobden (year 11) are all competing at the 2 day event. Our first day was a success with every student placing in at least one of their events from their showjumping, stock horse, hacking, horsemanship and dressage events.
Ella Ratcliffe received:
- 1st place in the bareback hack
- 1st place in her rider hack
-2nd place in two separate pairs hack (one with Jazmin Hobden)
-3rd in her speed and power round of her showjumping
-5th in her hack
Bo Burgess received:
-2nd in her bareback hack
Jazmin Hobden received:
-2nd in her power and speed showjumping round
-4th in her accumulator showjumping round
-1st in her hack class
-4th in her rider hack
-2nd in her pair with Ella Ratcliffe
-2nd in her Stock horse Working Horse pattern
Rylee Mitchell received:
-2nd in her accumulator showjumping round
Courtney Hobden received:
-2nd in her pair hack
-2nd in her bareback hack
-3rd in her rider class
-2nd in her hack
Day 2 at St. Lawrence's Horse Sports saw the students competing in cross country, sporting events, dual barrel, and the final presentation at the Grand Parade.
Ella Ratcliffe got the third highest point score in her 13 years age group for the combined days, while Jazmin Hobden got reserve 14 years girl age champion, and Courtney Hobden received 16 years girl reserve age champion.
The girls received the following results on Day 2:
Courtney Hobden:
-1st in Working Horse Challenge
-4th in horsemanship
-4th in stock horse time trial
-2nd in dressage
-1st in keyhole, 3rd in tee band and 4 other 2nd places in her sporting events
-1st in her dual barrel event
Rylee Mitchell:
-2nd in horsemanship
-5th in Working Horse Challenge
-3rd in her dual barrels
-2x3rd placings, 1x4th, and 1x1st ribbons in her sporting events
-1st in the 16years cross country event
Jazmin Hobden:
-1st in dressage
-1st in horsemanship
-2nd in Working Horse Challenge
-3rd in stock horse time trial
-4th in dual barrels
-2nd, 3rd, and 5th in her sporting events
-4th in cross country
Ella Ratcliffe:
-1st in Working Horse Challenge
-5th in dressage
-2nd, 4th and 3rd in sporting
The girls received amazing results, and showed great sportsmanship for the two days, culminating in a well presented grand parade where they showed the school off well!
