SPORT

Basketball

Four College teams recently competed in the Basketball Tasmania Regional High School Tournament. Games were played across multiple venues at Elphin Sports Centre and St Patrick’s College.

Our Year 7/8 Girls Division 1 team played against some strong opposition and although not winning a game showed great passion, teamwork and spirit across the weekend with improvements game to game. Our Year 7/8 Girls Division 2 team were also drawn in a strong pool of teams but showed great determination and composure to defeat Kings Meadows High School by a point 28-27.

Our Year 7/8 Boys team defeated Launceston Grammar in their opening game before a narrow loss to St Patrick’s College in their afternoon game. Their third match also saw a loss to Queechy High School  but they still managed to finish the group in third place to set up a playoff against Launceston Grammar for the final qualifying spot in the state champs. Unfortunately, despite leading for large parts of the game, they went down by two points in double overtime. The resilience shown by the group to push through the extended match at the end of a big weekend is commended and although falling just short in the end they represented the College with great spirit and dedication.

Our Year 9/10 Boys team were a little down on manpower due to exam preparation, but this didn’t dampen their spirits as we put a composite team together for the weekend. Their tournament was a huge success winning all four of their pool matches to finish top of their group and set up a final against Deloraine High School. In the final, after a long weekend of games, Deloraine proved too strong with a 64-31 victory. The team held their heads high throughout and it was great to see some of the younger members of the team step up and the leadership shown by the Year 10s who were able to play. Congratulations on being tournament runners up in Divison 2.

A big thank you to the team managers, score bench assistants and referees who gave up their time and assisted in getting our teams onto the courts across the weekend. Well done to all and we look forward to closing out the school year with NHSSA finals approaching.

Andrew Nichols
Person-in-Charge of Basketball

Hockey

Five students recently represented the U16 Northern team at the Under 16 State Hockey Championships. The students, Gwen Mcloughlin, Samantha Taylor, Annabel Crisp, Olive Kwan and Tully Russell were joined by College coach Keegan Jacobs and parents Hamish Crisp and Nigel Russell, involved with coaching the teams.

Ali Foot
Head of Sport – Penquite