Senior School Sport

• Basketball
• Cricket
• Rugby Club Golf Day
• Squash
• Swimming
• NSTA Tennis

Basketball

The Basketball committee AGM will be held tonight in the Sarto Centre with a 7.00pm start time.  Please email Robert Aposhian robaposh@gmail.com if you can join the team.

Saturday 10 November:  I was really pleased with the overall atmosphere at Oxford Falls last Saturday. It was a tough contest for us with all games against Oakhill teams. Good sportsmanship was shown by both schools and at times both teams offered a hand to lift players up after a fall. The Firsts match was a standout, with a big crowd from both schools cheering positively as the teams traded baskets. The game was even at full time and Oakhill got the better of us in overtime. Thanks to everyone for the positive support. It certainly lifted our team.  Thanks again to everyone who worked on the score bench. We had some intense matches to score.

Please click on the photo gallery below

Games of the day:  

• The Open C2 team with an away win against St Augustine’s Open Bs.
• The 15As with our only win against Oakhill A teams.

Play of the day:  Ben Cutbill 13Es knocks down his first two free throws in a row.

Deserves a mention: 

• Georgios Papaioannou - 13Ds; Billy Sykes and Tom Dixon - 13As
• Finlay McKechnie - 14Ds; Sam Ferguson - 14Bs; Sam Holm and James Shahinian - 14As
• Adam Carpenter and Liam Mattera - 15Ds; Patrick Moore and Nick Biefield - 15As
• Nick Carr -17Ds
• Erec Bacic - 1sts

Use the link below to see all of the ISA Basketball Teams Results:

http://www.isa.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/boys-basketball/

Mr N Gibson - Senior Basketball Convenor

Cricket

SPX Cricket Club Results, Match Reports and Photos:

Mr D Reay - Cricket Convenor

Rugby:  From the Rugby Club

Inaugural SPX Rugby Supporters' Club Fundraising Golf Day at Roseville Golf Club  from 1pm on Wednesday, 12 December - ‘Ambrose Shotgun Start’ – Tickets now on sale through TryBooking via this direct link https://www.trybooking.com/414231

$150 a ticket - includes lunch and drinks on arrival; golf fees; drinks cart circulating the course with complimentary drinks; BBQ dinner with complimentary drinks; discussion panel with Australian representative sporting personalities who will be playing on the day (including George Gregan, Rod Kafer, Royce Simmons, hopefully Michael Hooper, and others yet to be confirmed); and a chance to win a $65,000 Volvo XC60 in the 'hole in one' competition, - as well as lucky door, silent, and live auction prizes. 

A limited number of golf carts will be available at an additional cost of $45 per cart.  Lady golfers most welcome and encouraged to play.  We are limited to 100 players on the day - so book now or you might miss out!

If you would like to advertise your business we have a great opportunity through our Golf Day with extremely cost effective hole co-sponsorship advertising opportunities. 

If you are interested please contact Paul O'Neill (Tel: 0418-634750 or pmoneill@optusnet.com.au) for further details and costings.  

Paul O’Neill - President SPX Rugby Supporters’ Club

Tel: 0418-634750

Squash

Week 4 10/11/2018

Week 4 of the Sydney Junior Summer Pennant saw both teams play away at Thornleigh. SPX Team 1 played Barker 11 while SPX Team 2 played Briars 5. We walked away with one win and one loss.

Results for SPX Team 1

• Gregor Dingley win 15-5, 15-5, 15-8
• Gary Mullins win 15-12, 15-6, 15-8
• Bryan Zuluaga-Corrales win 15-12, 15-8, 15-9

Results for SPX Team 2

• James Regan loss 8-15, 4-15, 1-15
• Cameron Smith loss 4-15, 6-15, 3-15
• Michael Parisi win 15-12, 15-5, 15-5

Mr J Madani - Squash Coordinator

Swimming

Senior Swimming Squad:  Last Friday night the St Patrick's Invitational Carnival was held at Ryde Aquatic Centre. The boys swam really well again, coming away with a 5th place in the Junior and Intermediate divisions, 6th in the Seniors and 5th overall.

The squad has done a great job this term and I am looking forward to the 2019 season starting with our Annual School Carnival where the 2019 squad will be selected.

Training continues Monday and Tuesday until 26 November.

Ms L Proc - Swimming Convenor

NSTA Tennis 

Summer Tennis – Round 4

A feature this week was to have so many St Pius Teams playing each other across the Divisions. At Talus Street - Teams 5 and 25 had straight set wins – well done to those teams. Other wins at Talus included Teams: 1, 8, 11, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28 and 29 – great efforts here too.

We keenly await the result cards coming in from away games against Redlands and Reddam this Round.

What was also really impressive were the matches where our players were sometimes down 0-5 or 0-3 and came back to win their single sets – congratulations on staying positive and focused. There have been many school events like camps and exams to keep the students very busy and this week we move towards Year 7 and 8 Exam Days. Well done on the organisation of all players and the support of our tennis parents to get to the right venues to ensure a smooth day on Saturday.

Results will be updated each week. Players and parents are encouraged to keep checking the XPoint weblink in notes sent home already, and on tennis emails from earlier this term, to confirm accuracy of results so far.

Look forwarding to Round 5 next Saturday 17/11/18 – with Finals the weekend following – 24th November.

Ms S-J Grove - NSTA Summer Tennis Convenor