Secondary Sport
redlands Rhino – Weekly Fixtures
Please note: Redlands Rhino has the most up-to-date weekly fixtures. This is uploaded every Tuesday afternoon at 4.00pm. Please ensure you check this with regards to game times, venues and oppositions.
Basketball
Round 3 was an exciting round as we had almost all teams at our home venue, NBISC.
Boys
In the Open division we won all three games. The 1sts had a close contest against St Andrew’s, managing to pull away in the last quarter for a 79-68 win. The 2nds and 4ths both secured a win over Oakhill and St Pius respectively. Our 17As were the only team that finished the day with a victory in a very close match. With the game going into two overtime periods and finally golden goal, it was a free throw by Tom Huizenga that sealed the victory and ended the game. The 15s saw three wins and one loss, with both the 15A and 15C teams managing to put more than 30 points between them and their opponent. Both the 14A and 14Bs put up a great fight, although the competition by both St Andrew’s and Oakhill proved too strong. There were another three wins in the 13s with the 13As continuing their undefeated streak in a 55-27 win over St Andrew’s. The 13Cs finished with a 31-11 win over St Patrick’s D and the 13Es were one of our few travelling teams with another close win, a 19-14 victory over St Spyridon.
Girls
The 1sts had an impressive 60 point win over the ISA Champions from last year, Central Coast and have been an exciting team to watch with their unselfish style of play. The 2nds had a close match against St Spyridon’s 1sts in a narrow 8 point loss. The Inter As remain undefeated in the first three rounds with another impressive 31-18 win over CCGS. The Inter Bs had their first win of the season which was a 39-20 win over Blue Mountains Inter A side, while the Inter Cs had a tough loss against St Pauls Grammar School. The Junior As had a very close game throughout, narrowly losing by one point to the Central Coast Junior As and the Junior Bs had a 29-16 win against Blue Mountains.
Best of luck to all teams this Saturday in Round 4. Many of our teams will be travelling outside of Sydney for their games, parents are reminded to complete the online bus permissions through the Redlands portal for their son/daughter.
Rowing
Last weekend the Rowing program attended the Hunter Valley Grammar School Regatta. Out of 173 crews entered across the day, a Redlands crew finished on the podium on 101 occasions with 34 first placed winners. This is an outstanding effort from our students but what was most pleasing is how well our new rowing students raced, especially the Year 7 students who were more than competitive against crews with far more experience. Results can be found on Redlands Pulse.
A huge thank you should be extended to our Friends of Rowing group who not only ran an info session at the boatshed prior to our return from the regatta for boat unloading, but also supplied pizzas for our students at the conclusion of the day. Another thank you should also be extended to Sonia Stewart who took a number of photos at the regatta. These photos can be found at the following link: https://www.sonartpixel.com/Newcastle-regatta.
The next Friends of Rowing meeting will be held in room H2.6 from 6.00 – 7.00pm on Monday 18 November, all families and supporters are welcome to attend.
Touch Football
It was a tough week for our Senior teams with our 1sts, 2nds and 3rds all losing to Barker College. Our 1sts have been showing some great improvements this year, but were no match for the reigning Division 1 champions. Our 2nds had a fanstastic game, with some slick ball movement throughout the match, only going down 2-3. It will be a close battle in the next rounds against Barker. Our 3rds had a tough time with Barker showing strong signs of offence and defence to take the match 0-7. Our Senior 4ths travelled to Oxley in what was another close game for the girls, unfortunately losing 3-4.
Our Junior teams had some mixed results. Our Junior As were taking on Blue Mountains Grammar, a team who last year knocked the girls out of the Semi Finals. Some nice inter play between the links and wings proved too much for BMGS with the girls taking the game 7-0. Our Junior Bs have been slowly improving, coming up against last years Junior B Champions, St Andrew’s. The game seemed to swing from end to end, with St Andrew’s taking the win 0-2. The Junior C team have had draws recently and they were looking to capitalise on some great skills they have been showing at training as they ventured down to Oxley. This one came down to the wire and for the second week in a row, finished in a draw! Our Junior D team are working really hard on their communication in defence and running onto the ball in attack, with a number of combinations getting better as the games go on. Unfortunately they lost to Chevalier College.
This week will see our 1sts, 3rds, Junior A and Junior B teams travelling to Oxley College (bus departing Redlands at 8.15am). Our 2nds, 4ths and Junior C teams are at Macquarie Uni and our Junior D teams are at St Pauls Grammar School. All games times and fields can be found on the Redland Rhino.
Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au
All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.