Senior School Sport & Extra-Curricula Activities
- Rugby Club AGM
- Senior Cricket
- Senior Basketball
- NSTA Tennis
- Squash
- Senior Swimming
- Strength and Conditioning
Rugby Club AGM
The Rugby Club will be holding its AGM on Wednesday 23 November in the Sarto Centre, commencing at 6.30 pm. All positions on the committee will be up for re-election. We look forward to seeing any Rugby parents attend.
Mr Matt Stearn for Mr Martin Gillogly - Rugby Convenor
Senior Cricket
Term 4 Team Training Days
Monday – 1st and 2nd XI (until 5.30 pm)
Tuesday – U15/17 (until 5.00 pm)
Wednesday – 1st and 2nd XI (until 5.30 pm)
Thursday – U13 and U14 (Senior school students – until 5.00 pm), U12 and U13 (during Junior School Sport)
All training is at Oxford Falls and conducted by Cricket Appeal.
PE uniform or SPX Cricket uniform to be worn.
Buses depart from OLD Church at 3.20 pm and return to Anderson St at approx. 5.30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6.00 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
MWJCA Round 8 Fixtures – Saturday 19 November 2022
SPX Blue v Harbord Sharks @ Oxford Falls #2 (1.00 pm start)
SPX Gold v Peninsula Thunder @ Oxford Falls #2 (8.00 am start)
SPX Red v BYE
SPX Green v St Augustine’s Gold @ Nolans Reserve #2 (8.00 am start)
SPX Orange v Seaforth Rebels @ Balgowlah Oval (8.00 am start)
SPX Purple v Harbord Boomerangs @ Nolans Reserve #1 (8.00 am start)
Players are asked to check PlayHQ to confirm venues in case of late changes or allocations by MWJCA.
ISA Round 5 Fixtures – Saturday 19 November 2022
1st XI v St Stanislaus’ College @ Main Oval St Stanislaus’ College Bathurst (10.00 am start)
2nd XI v Chevalier College @ Oxford Falls #1 (10.00 am start)
1st XI v St Andrew’s Cathedral College @ Oxford Falls – Saturday 12 November 2022
The 1st XI was at home against SACS. The toss was lost, and the SPX cricketers were in the field first on a summery morning. Jesse Mansbridge (2-15) clean bowled the opposition opener and Joel Austin took a diving catch in the covers off Mitchell McGrath’s bowling, before the pace of Andrew May (2-9 off 6 overs) and Flynn Pavely (1-6 off 5 overs) attacked the middle order. After a poor period of extras and loose bowling, the last few wickets fell quickly as Mansas Bansal (3-18) found his rhythm and Pat Frost took a good outfield catch. SACS were dismissed for 75 in the 31st over. Frost (19) and Austin (34 not out) continued their steady starts to the 1st XI innings with a 39-run stand before Will Pavely (22 not out) found the gaps. The 1st XI reaching the target in 11 overs for a nine-wicket victory.
Results – Saturday 12 November 2022
SPX Blue 8/93 defeated by Seaforth Panthers 4/195
SPX Gold 8/100 defeated Peninsula Pacers 8/60
SPX Red BYE
SPX Green 3/171 defeated CPCC Flash 10/146
SPX Orange 8/78 defeated by Wakehurst Green 4/79
SPX Purple 10/98 defeated by CPCC Power 2/288
2nd XI 10/77 defeated by St Augustine’s College 9/214
1st XI 1/77 defeated St Andrew’s Cathedral College 10/75 – see match report
Mr David Reay - Cricket Convenor
Senior Basketball
Two more weeks of Basketball this term before a Christmas break in the season. Most teams take on St Augustine’s or Oakhill in what should be a fiercely competitive round of fixtures. Last week saw 4 of our 5 ‘A’ teams get the chocolates
*Please find all Round 4 results on the ISA Sport App. Filter by both School (SPX) and Sport (Basketball Boys) using the icon next to the whistle in the top right corner.
Our season continues with Round 5 this Saturday as per the draw below.
Round 5 fixtures – 19 November: Teams, Opponents, Venues and Times
Please be aware of the ISA Code of Conduct for players and spectators. We have high expectations of our young men in their sporting representative roles, especially around behaviour, sportsmanship, attendance and uniform (SPX gear ONLY on Saturdays)
Key dates:
- Sat 26 Nov – ISA Round 6 (final game for this year)
- Sat 4 Feb 2023 – Competition resumes – ISA Round 7
Training:
The final Oxford Falls session for the term will now be Wednesday 23 November. Oxford Falls is unavailable on Thursday 24 due to our Founder’s Day Festival and so there will be no A/B team training on this day.
Chatswood training concludes on Friday 25th Nov as per the schedule below.
Game Video: Each week I have 3 games filmed on Court 1, generally the 1sts or 2nds and the two preceding fixtures. Last weekend we filmed the 15A, 17A and 1st V. Full games and highlight packages here.
Team Lists:
Teams for the ISA Season can be found here:
Uniform:
All players should now be kitted out in the SPX Basketball Singlet and Shorts. Please, only SPX gear to be worn to/from games.
Season Draw:
This ‘SPX Season Draw 2022/23’ below is a working DRAFT document.
Navigate to each week using the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet. Times and venues will be added each week and the FINAL version for the upcoming Saturday is posted via this link each week in Woodchatta.
Venues for the week are also on this draw.
NB. Age Groups correlate to school year, apart from 1st and 2nd V.
Therefore: 13’s = Yr 7, 14’s = Yr 8, 15’s = Yr 9, 17’s = Yr 10, Opens = Yr 11
Mr Greg Virgona - Basketball Convenor
NSTA Tennis
An amazing morning for tennis, the sun was out, a slight breeze and lots of fun was had on the courts. Pius won 7 of the 8 matches at 8.00 am, which was a great achievement! Lucas Ma and Joseph Wilson (SPX 30) played and excellent doubles match winning 6-0 to SPX 32. There was a lot of friendly banter and laughs out on the court which was also great to see. Thank you to Justin Lee who played up in SPX 22 to partner Jack Costa. The boys also played an exciting doubles match just beating Reddam 5, 6 games to 5. As always thank you to James Higgins, Aidan Seifert and Alex Higgins who stepped in to help mentor and umpire the green ball matches.
At 10.00 am SPX 4 played a tough match against Barker 1 and although they didn’t win they seemed to have fun out on the court and great sportsmanship was seen. A special mention must go to Ethan Li and Aidan Seifert who turned up to play just their singles match and what a match it was going for just over an hour and coming down to Aidan just beating Ethan 7-6. The Anderson twins, Cooper and Spencer, SPX 8 are a difficult pair to beat when it comes to doubles. It must be a twin thing! Cooper also won his singles to help clinch the win for their team. Will Fiore and Lachlan Yu both played well against Reddam 4 winning their match 17 games to 11.
Please ensure that you are checking your weekly scores, rankings and draw on the Xpoint site: https://www.xpointsports.com/region/325/currentEvents
Also note that this weekend (November 19) will be the final round before the finals and play offs on November 26. ALL players will be playing on that weekend.
Mrs Sam Iwatani - NSTA Convenor
Squash
The fifth week of squash wasn’t great for SPX. At least we were guaranteed a win in DIV 6. Next Saturday is the mid-season finals and teams will be rearranged into new divisions for Term 1, 2023 based on the outcomes of this weekend’s fixture. Good luck to all.
DIV 1: SPX 1 V. DURAL 1 loss by points 78-70
DIV 2: SPX 2 V. KNOX 4 loss by matches 2-0
DIV 3: SPX 3 V. JETTS 1 loss by matches 2-0
DIV 4: SPX 4 V. FORT ST 1 loss by games 4-3
DIV 4: SPX 5 V. ST ANDREWS 2 loss by games 5-3
DIV 6: SPX 6 V. SPX 7 SPX 6 win by games 5-3
Mr Joseph Madani - Squash Convenor
Senior Swimming
Last Friday night the squad competed at the St Patrick’s College Invitational Carnival at Ryde Aquatic Centre. We had a few personal best times and Nicholas Gladen breaking the U17 50m Freestyle record by half a second. The Juniors came 4th, the Intermediates came 5th and the Seniors came a very close 2nd to Kings. Overall, St Pius came 4th which was outstanding.
Training concludes this Friday and will recommence in 2023 mid-February.
Ms Leisa Proc - Senior Swimming Coordinator
Strength and Conditioning
Strength and Conditioning testing is this week! This is your final testing opportunity for the year and is a great way to map your progress for 2023. It will give you direct feedback on how you are tracking with your training, and it also gives us a really good indication of how we are doing as program. This week influences where we steer the program over the next few months. Below is a breakdown of the tests and how they should be conducted. The testing will occur over the week and it’s important to understand that these sessions are not workouts, they are all-out efforts. This is the part where you find out where you really are compared to where you think you are. Do these tests in the order they are displayed in the link below and you should have a decent day out! To record your scores you must add your data into first Thursday of November in your calendar on teambuildr. Take your time with the testing, don’t rush it like a session or a normal workout, sit down a day before and plan it out, think about how you want to attack it… give yourself the best chance to perform at your best!
Ms Laura Coombe - Strength and Conditioning Convenor