Secondary Sport

Basketball – Boys

Our A and B boys teams played against St Pius over the weekend. With most of the games coming down to the final few minutes, we came away with wins in the 13A, 17B and 1sts Boys. Our 1sts Boys managed to sneak away with a win in what was a very close game. We had a three point lead, and with just seconds to go, St Pius shot a three pointer that if successful would have sent the game into overtime. Thankfully the shot was a narrow miss and we finished the game with a 72-69 win. Our C Boys teams played at home and finished with a clean sweep. A close game in the 13C saw Redlands come away with a one point win. This was followed up with more convincing wins for the 14C, 15C, 17C and Open C Boys. Well done to our 14D team, who after the first two rounds of the competition remain undefeated.  

Basketball – Girls

Round 2 of Redlands Basketball saw close games for many of our teams against some strong opposing schools. Our Junior A and Junior B Girls teams travelled to Oxley and both finished the day with very convincing wins. Our Inter A Girls had a bye this round, and our Inter B team travelled to CCGS and had a tough loss against Central Coast. Our Open B Girls put up a great fight against Central Coast, and a tied score at the end of the 40 minutes had the game going into overtime, where Central Coast managed to end up on top. Our 1sts Girls played against Barker’s top team, and despite keeping the game close up until half-time, Barker were too strong for our girls in the second half.

We will be holding an ‘at home’ round in Dunnet Hall combined with the Redlands Junior School this Saturday. The day will feature our Junior School teams in the morning, followed by our 1sts Boys and Girls, and the 14A Boys. Please come along to support our teams.

Indoor Hockey

Congratulations to Eloise Trueman (Yr 7) and Freya Gait (Yr 7) who both played in the State Cup this past weekend in Orange. The girls’ Northern Suburbs and Beaches team were knocked out of the Semi Finals by the eventual winners, Sydney South, however the girls’ team was awarded the ‘Play the Whistle’ award for behaviour and sportsmanship for their division.

Touch Football

Round 2 of the ISA Competition saw our Senior teams playing their first round at our home venue of Macquarie whilst our Junior sides along with the Senior C sides travel across to Bowral. With all of our teams playing back to back games, this round shaped as a great chance for all of our teams to secure positions in the top four of their competitions and continue to build into cohesive squads.

Against Chevalier our Junior As kicked off the day with a resounding 5-1 win. Emma Mahon and Katie Wightwick were standouts, not only in attack but with their work rate in defence not allowing any easy metres for the Chevalier side. The team followed this up with another win this time against Oxley, the attacking quartet of Sophia Hill, Grace Rugge-Price, Madison Barwise and Louise Colin leading to a solid 5-2 victory.

Our Junior Cs were in brilliant form across both their games, scoring 11 tries across the two matches. Bronte Backhouse, Jazz Gregan and Daisy Oliver ran tries in from all corners of the park and some lovely work between Iona Carter and Anna Ivanovic set up wonderful try right down the middle. Two great results for our Junior Cs with a 5-5 draw against Oxley and a decisive 6-1 win against Chevalier.

In our Division 1 match ups our Redlands 1sts Girls came up against Barker 1sts and Barker Bs. Our girls had spoken about this match up, not only with something to prove based on results last year, but they also saw this as a chance to show how far they have progressed as a squad through the trainings and the camp away. In a narrow loss, our 1sts kept pace with Barker, at times looking like the much stronger side. There were multiple times where we broke their line. This close match built so much confidence in the squad and they followed this up brilliantly by smashing the Barker Bs 8-3. Caitlin Du Plooy was wonderful, leading the team around the park and keeping the scoreboard ticking over in our favour. Elsewhere, the combination of Domenica Stuart and Aoibheann Maclochlainn was causing havoc, making some great sweeping runs down the left side of the defence. 

Following on from these two games, our Redlands Bs came up against the Barker sides and showed just how far they have improved as a squad, building pressure across both games they forced mistakes from the Barker sides with Miranda Renwick slicing through a tired defence for two brilliant tries.

Back over in Bowral our Senior C side came up against Chevalier first up, unfortunately losing a tightly contested game. They responded to this in the most positive way, maintaining a clean sheet against Oxley in a thrilling 1-0 win with Emilia Built scoring a scintillating try down the right side of the field, beating two defenders to the corner and diving over.

We now have four of our six teams right in amongst the top four in the competition with one of our teams holding an undefeated streak and sitting top of the table. I would like to also just personally thank Mia Boys for the wonderful photos from the weekend.

Sailing

Our Sailors have been enjoying their new digs at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and over recent weeks our sailors have been training in Elliots and Lasers preparing for both match racing and team racing events. Over the weekend, two teams from the Redlands Sailing program competed at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Youth 2018 Match Racing Regatta. Despite having only trained in the boats for a few weeks and never matching racing before, both the teams performed exceptionally well. Zac Brayden was the skipper for Redlands 1 and his team, consisting of Ethan McFarlane, Jameson Prescott and Mawson Ritchie, sailed extremely well throughout the day securing two wins against some of the best youth sailors in NSW. Redlands 2 was skippered by Ben Harrington with Julian Mare, Sienna Wessels, Katina Casimaty and Zac Nisbet as his crew. Ben’s team surprised the majority of the fleet with amazing speed around the course and managed to win one race against an extremely tough opponent. The Redlands Sailing program’s next event will be on 9 February when Redlands sailors will be taking on the Eastern Suburbs schools in a Teams Racing event in the new Redlands Pacer fleet that will be arriving in the next few days.