Sport & Outdoor Education
Lacrosse
On the Friday 8 September Mount St. Joseph Girls' College hosted and competed in the SCSA Lacrosse competition at Paisley Park Lacrosse field, Altona North.
We entered 3 Junior teams (Years 7-9) and 2 Senior teams (Years 10-12), that competed against schools from Presentation College Windsor, Academy, Sion, Mater Christi and Star of the Sea throughout the day.
Each team played in 9 games with two seven minute halves, with our Junior A team winning the Grand Final 5-0 against Sion. Bethany McDonald won Most Valuable Player Award in the final for Mount st. Joseph Girls' College.
MSJ Junior Team B played off for 3rd and 4th and lost a close final 3-2 to Star of the Sea to come 4th, which was a great effort by our girls.
At Senior level, MSJ 1 played off for 3rd and 4th position v Sion, winning a close game 4-3, having narrowly missed out on making the Grand Final, in which Presentation College Windsor defeated Academy 7-5.
All our teams competed with great enthusiasm and sportsmanship throughout a long day of competition, and a big thanks to our coaches, Mr Piazza, Ms Baka, Mrs Sofarnos, Mrs Sexton and Ms Hawkins who were essential oin hosting the day and ensuring everything ran smoothly for the 20 school teams competing.
Netball
Mount St. Joseph Girls' College competed in the SCSA Division 2 Netball competition at Waverley Netball Centre, on Monday 18 September. We entered 7 teams into the various divisions on offer, 3 Junior, 2 Intermediate, and 2 Senior teams.
It was a fun and successful day for our school with 4 teams making it through to Grand Finals; Junior B, Intermediate A & B and Senior B teams.
Intermediate A won their Grand Final and were named Champions with Gemma Egan winning Most Valuable Player in the Final.
Senior B also won their Grand Final and congratulations to Nicola Verhoef on being named Most Valuable Player in this final.
A huge thanks to our coaches, Ms Baka, Ms Commadeur, Ms Jolly, Ms Hawkins, Ms Krell , Mrs Sofarnos, Ms Fairthorne and Ms CJ, for their time and effort in not only coaching on competition day, but in preparing and selecting the teams during Term 3.
Sue Sofarnos
Sports Coordinator
Cycling Champion
Lauren Vander won her division in the Victorian Schools Cycling Championships. Lauren will now go on to compete at a State Final level. Well done Lauren!
Coming Soon
Friday 13 October
SCSA Table Tennis Div 2
Tuesday 17 October
SCSA Softball Div 2