Sports Report 

Good afternoon to all the sports-lovers out there in our wider Cobram AGS community! What a fantastic couple of weeks we have had on the sporting front, especially with badminton and athletics.  Our Senior Boys’ (Year 11) team, consisting of Miles Curtin, Carlo Ditchon, Shem Swoffer and Bailey White, travelled to the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) in South Melbourne on Thursday, 15th August. A very early start saw us venture down the Hume and the boys found themselves in Pool B, where they were matched up against Melbourne High School, Mt. Clear from Ballarat and Warragul Regional College. The team ended up winning 1 of their 3 round-robin matches and losing 2 to end up in 3rd spot in the pool. The following results were achieved:

vs. Melbourne High Won 0 sets/ 37 points to 6/126

vs. Mt. Clear won 6/126 to 0/55

vs. Warragul won 2/84 to 4/116

Unfortunately, the boys missed out on finals’ action but ended up 5th overall after final calculations of results from both pools tallied so a very impressive effort considering the talent pool they were up against.

Our Year 8 Girls’ badminton team went off to Wangaratta on Tuesday, 20th August to contest the Hume Region final, attempting to reclaim their title from the Year 7 equivalent in 2018. What a great result was achieved by the girls: Hannah Logie, Emily Orsida, Cadence Pang, Natasha Smith and Caitlin Welch, where they only dropped one set for the tournament to emphatically claim the title for the second consecutive year. The results were as follows:

vs. Myrtleford Secondary won 6/127 to 0/81

vs. Seymour Secondary won 6/126 to 0/33

vs. Cathedral College Wangaratta won 5/115 to 1/72

The girls will now contest for the State title in the School Sports Victoria’s Junior Girls (Year 8) final, which will be held at MSAC on Friday, 13th September!!! Congratulations girls on your magnificent achievement. Thanks to Mrs Logie and her mum, Glenda, who travelled over to Wangaratta to support Hannah and the rest of the team!

On Thursday, 22nd of August, we had 8 Year 5-6 students head to Shepparton to participate in the Shepparton Badminton Association’s Primary School tournament. With a full contingent of schools, the competition was fierce. Our A Team: Isabella Boys, Teagan Wilkin-Thom, Melissa Voeurn and Regan Rouse, did a terrific job to finish in 3rd position. The B Team: Scout Kernaghan, Lewis Brown, Abigail Brooker and Seth Walker, didn’t fair quite as well but narrowly missed out on a bronze medal! Comments received were they played with beautiful sportsmanship and gave their best effort. A huge thank you to Jane Bowman and Jan Brown, who enabled this to go ahead by providing transport and supervision/management of the teams!!! We greatly appreciate your ability to step up into these roles and being part of providing a special experience for our keen students.

We conducted our Cobram AGS athletics carnivals over 2 weeks, with inclement weather playing havoc on the scheduled date for the 3-12 carnival. The P-2 carnival, held at Barooga Rec Reserve on Wednesday, 7th August, was a great opportunity for the younger students to explore and enjoy the skills and strategies involved with events/sports in the athletics program. This also had the added spice of some competitiveness, with house points going towards the overall champions. In the end, it was Cowell leading the way, closely pursued by Stanyer with Farrer not far away in 3rd spot. These points were added to a jam-packed 3-12 program, which got rescheduled for a nicer day on Tuesday, 13th August! What a competition it was, with athletes from all houses doing a superb job! This resulted in Farrer being the winners on the day, followed by Stanyer and Cowell slipping to 3rd spot. When all the results were tallied, this saw Cowell come in 3rd position, Stanyer were runners-up and Farrer claimed the title of House Athletics Champions for 2019! Well done to all those connected to Farrer (Blue) House!!! Please find results, age champions and overall points, for both days:

Age Champions: