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Intermediate Girls
The Inter Girls played a fierce Manly Bombers side. It was great to see the girls improve their physicality around the contest and see some strong tackles made. The girls also showed major strengths in structure, pressing up the ground and putting pressure on the opposition. Kicking and hand passing also improved, which has been an ongoing focus point for the girls.
Junior Girls
The junior girls came up against Queenwood on Sunday and competed extremely well despite the scoreline. The girls have vastly improved their skills and knowledge for the sport since the start of the term and are becoming more competitive against these experienced teams. Lucile Thompson was a standout on the day, finishing with a goal to add to her dominant midfield performance. Lexi Rowe also found a lot of the ball and used her speed to make several impressive runs down the wing. As the girls continue to expand their skills at weekly training sessions, then these great performances will continue to happen.
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Intermediate Boys
Redlands skipped out to an early lead and led from the front all day, withstanding a late fight back from a determined Barker which went down to the final siren. So many great individual highlights from what was a very physical match but the one that stands out in my mind was Charlie Parker calmly kicking a goal from a set shot about 40 metres out after the siren in the second quarter. The boys ultimately won 55-51.
Junior A Boys
A dominant performance over Saint Ignatius. From the first bounce the boys were up and about against a competitive opposition, yet they were able to sail away comfortably and show positive signs for a strong season to come. A strong individual performance from Charlie Stephens had him bagging 8 goals in 2 quarters, displaying his high footy IQ and encouraging all the boys to put a solid 4 quarters of footy together
Junior B Boys
The boys came out and competed hard against a strong Shore side. While kicking 4 goals and 16 behinds the boys were able to pull away from the competition in the closing seconds of the game, a close but thrilling match, resulting in a big win.
Football
Round 3 was another great round for the Redlands Girls Football program, winning two games in the 1st and Junior A Girls, finishing the game with a draw in Inter A division and one loss for the Junior B team who came up against a very strong St Spyridon team. Many of the boys teams came up against St Andrew’s Cathedral School where we saw a mixture of results with the 13A and 14A sides winning very convincingly. The 1st Boys finished the day with a 1-1 draw and St Andrew’s managed to take the lead in the 2nd, 16A and 15A divisions. The 13Bs came up against a very strong St Patrick’s team in what was a great test for the boys.
Best of luck to all teams in Round 4 of the ISA competition this Saturday 22nd May.
A reminder that at Macquarie University there are to be no animals (no dogs) at any point.
Hockey
During Round 3 of the ISA Hockey season, the 1st Girls team travelled to the Central Coast. In a tough fixture the teams were very evenly matched, however the Central Coast team finished on top with a 1-0 win. The 2nd Girls travelled to Bowral to play against Chevalier College where they were met with some very unforgiving weather. A tough match up saw the Redlands team leaving with a 3-0 loss but it was a great contest and challenge for the girls. The Junior Girls also travelled to CCGS and had their toughest match of the season to date. They came up against a very well matched CCGS team but found a way to get ahead to finish with a 2-0 win, continuing their undefeated streak.
Best of luck to all teams in Round 4 this Saturday 22 May.
Netball
There were some tough matches over the weekend with a number of teams playing away at both St Andrew’s and Central Coast Grammar, as well as some teams travelling to Oakhill College. Our 1st VII took on the might of Oakhill College 1, who in recent years have been dominant across the Division 1 Netball competition. This match, from all reports, was an outstanding game of Netball and despite going down by 5 points, the girls held their own and will look to peg one back when they meet again in a few weeks. Our Senior 3 team had a very close match against Barker College, and with a spider dropping from the roof of NBISC into centre of the court to spice the game up a little, this match went back and forth with the girls unfortunately going down 32-33. Our Juniors bounced back from their tough defeat last week to Barker with a cracking game against CCGS on Saturday to stay in the top half on the draw.
There have been some changes to the ISA Netball Draw, please ensure you check the Redlands Rhino each week to confirm your fixtures.
The draft draw on Redlands Pulse – Netball which has the updated draw, however game times may vary each week
Rugby
Redlands Rugby had some brilliant results over the weekend, travelling to Oxley College to play in cold and windy conditions. Our Under 13s started the day off on a positive note, leading the entire match and, with a late comeback from Oxley, managing to hold on to a wonderful 2 point victory. This was our Under 13s first official match for the season and it was brilliant to see the boys celebrate. Special mention to Henry Preece for his first game as Captain and also to Christopher Stevens who kicked 4 from 4 at goal. The Under 14s followed this up with another nail-biter of a match, trading tries back and forth until they eventually came away with a narrow 2 point victory as well. Our Under 15s followed on from their strong match against BMGS with dominant win against Oxley. Lead by strong performances from Daniel Lev and Alfie Leach, the team was able to control the ball for most of the match, running out to a convincing victory. For our Opens and our Under 16s it was two very different styles of matches. The Under 16s played a modified 7s match, with Oxley unable to keep up with the speed of ball movement that Redlands was able to produce and, with players like Josh Hicks and Will Pearson running in multiple tries, the game was never in doubt. The Opens came up against a robust Oxley side with strong ball runners throughout the team. The defence shown by the group was tremendous but, under fatigue, Oxley were able to get out to a safe lead. It was a credit to all of the students who stepped up to represent our Open side, especially the Under 16s who backed up after their own match.
This weekend sees fixtures against Central Coast Grammar and St Augustines with the game times as follows;
Redlands Under 13s vs CCGS – 08:00am Campbell Field Macquarie
Redlands Under 14s vs CCGS – 09:00am Campbell Field Macquarie
Redlands Under 16s vs CCGS – 10:00am Campbell Field Macquarie
Redlands Under 15s vs St Augustines – 8:30am Pittwater Park Field 4
I would like to also formally congratulate the following students who were selected in the Under 16s ISA Representative Squad. Joshua Hicks and William Pearson both trialled brilliantly, representing Redlands to the highest level. Both of these boys will now have the opportunity to represent the school and the ISA at the NSW Schoolboys Championships where they will have the chance to be selected further into the NSW Rep Pathways.
A reminder that at Macquarie University there are to be no animals (no dogs) at any point.
Tennis
Last week our ISA teams had a very successful round against SACS, Oxley and Chevalier. This week also saw our Development Squads start up. We look forward to seeing these students tennis skills develop over the season.
There are no COVID restrictions at any venues this week. Please continue to sign in to venues with the Service NSW QR code.
Just a reminder, please email Eliza Peirce directly regarding injury/illness that eliminates you from a training session. Unexplained absences will result in a lunch time detention. If you are rostered to play on Saturday and fall ill on Friday, please notify Eliza Peirce no later than 12.00pm on Friday to ensure a substitute can be found.
Wet weather notifications can be found on twitter @RedlandsSport, if you cannot find wet weather information, please turn up to your venue regardless, this applies to training and matches.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts”
– Winston S. Churchill
Ms Alison Cox
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au
All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.