Sport
Glenelg Division Tennis
On Friday 9th November, the College GD tennis team comprising of 16 enthusiastic Year 7-10 students participated in the annual Glenelg Division Tennis day at the Hamilton Tennis Club and Monivae College. Despite the rainy conditions, the standard of play was quite high and our team managed to perform consistently throughout their games to secure 2nd place. Our most successful competitors were Charlotte Millear and Tori Dunstan who won the Junior Girls’ Doubles division! Many other competitors came 2nd in their division including Jake McKenzie in the Intermediate A Singles, Finlay Cameron in the Junior B Singles, Charley Falla in the Junior A Singles, Isaac Hocking in the Junior B Singles, Annabel Hetherington in the Intermediate B Singles and Chloe Russell and Olivia Allen in the Intermediate Doubles.
Glenelg Division Triathlon
The annual GD Triathlon was held last Thursday in Portland in near perfect conditions and we sent three individual competitors and numerous team entries down to compete against the other 7 schools in the two divisions – junior and intermediate. All students who represented the school are to be congratulated especially the 3 individual competitors – Nick Northeast, Lachlan Rees and Tobe Adamson. Some impressive performances from the following also enabled the school to come equal first in the overall aggregate shield! A special thank you to Miss Kristen Waldron and James Fear for taking the team down and for helping out as an official on the day and the parents who travelled down for the event to support and take photos.
Junior girls’ team
2nd = Lily Godde, Phoebe Russell, Charlotte Rowe
Junior boys’ team
2nd = Gabe Marshall, Jack Austin, Isaac Hocking
Intermediate girls’ team
2nd = Arielle Dickeson, Chloe Lyons, Issy Musson
Intermediate boys’ team
1st = Sam Crawford, Milo Cooper, Fergus Roberts
3rd = Jack Sharp, Sean Cashill, Harry Robertson
Leigh Alexander
Head of Sport
Women's Cricket
Women’s Cricket is still running smoothly as the Junior Cricket Season is about to come to and end and the Women’s Senior teams are reaching the midway point of the season.
The Women’s A Grade side have secured themselves a spot in the top 4 with some nice wins in the last few weeks. In Round 4 we had a win against the Pigeon Ponds at their home ground. Some good batting with a retirement of 37 from Eliza Jagger and even better all round fielding by the team gained them 5 wickets during the game. Kate Jessop made her debut to cricket in the most stunning way with some fantastic bowling but some even better fielding with her one handed star catch.
Round 5 was rained out.
Round 6 at the home ground of Myrniong saw us come up against Grampians. Hannah Russell was back in form with a retirement of 36 featuring 5 very nice boundaries. Kate Millear opened the bowling and set the Grampians on a very low run rate with a maiden over.
The U16s’ fixture has been mixed around a little with many teams rescheduling games but the season is sadly coming to an end. In Round 5, only College Blue played and they had a win against St. Andrew’s. With many girls being away for the Year 7 cricket, College Gold cancelled.
In the U13s, College came up against Grampians in round 3 and had a win with Diamon Dickesen being a key fielder and Sybil Fleetwod making some very nice, quick singles. Round 4 was a bye. In Round 5, the girls came back up against Macarthur again and had a win.
Super 8 T20 Year 5/6 Cricket was played on 9th November. In the cold, rainy conditions some great skills were on display proving that the future of women’s cricket will be strong. The girls played 3 games and a final only losing one game on the day.
The Super 8 T20 Year 7 team played in Yarraville on the 14th November following their success at the local competition in Hamilton. It was a very early start for the girls but I’d like to commend them on how they played and conducted themselves during the day. They were unlucky to experience a loss in the first game against Warrnambool, but regained their form for a win against Eltham College with Diamon Dickesen and Tori Dunstan being the star bowlers throughout the day.
Stephen Mirtschin
Head of Cricket