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 5 was one of the best rounds of Redlands Basketball to date. With 18 wins out of 25 games, we have seen some huge improvements across many of our teams as we hit the half way mark of the season. Our 2nds, 3rds and 4ths Boys all finished the day with a win, while the 1sts Boys had their first loss of the season in a nail-biting three point loss to Redfield in the final seconds of the game. Our 17A, 17B and 17C teams all managed a win, with the 17C Boys having a huge 44-7 victory. The 17D boys showed improvement, however, ended the match with a loss against St Pius. Another clean sweep in the 15 Boys, with all teams winning by margins over 24 points. The 14A Boys were very impressive in Round 5, having only five players for the game due to an injury during warm-up, all five players took the floor with a never give-up attitude. They managed to finish the game with a 33-21 win in what was a great team effort from all players on the floor. The 14B Boys again showed improvement in their game, with a narrow nine point loss against St Pat’s. The 13A, C, D and E Boys all came away from Round 5 with a win, while the 13B didn’t give up in their loss against St Pat’s. The Yr 7 Boys showing this is another very strong age group for Redlands Basketball.
Our 1sts Girls remain undefeated after playing Oakhill on Saturday and hope to build in the coming week before heading to Melbourne for the Australian Schools Championships. Despite losing to the BMGS 1sts team, the 2nds Girls are continuing to show that they can be competitive in a division in which they play many schools top teams. The Inter A Girls also continue their undefeated streak with a huge win over BMGS. The Inter B Girls had a loss to the Chevalier A team, but similarly to the 2nds, are competing and holding their own against many schools’ Inter A sides. The Junior Bs continue to outplay the competition, with a 66-8 win and the Junior Cs had a very close 17-20 loss against BMGS.
Best of luck to our 1sts Boys and Girls squads who will be travelling to Melbourne from 1-6 December to compete in the 2019 Australian Schools Championships. It is a fantastic opportunity for our students to be exposed to some of the top Junior Basketball players in the country.
There will be no Basketball training for any teams in Week 8, the final week of school.
Team Photos
We take a number of team photos during the Representative seasons. Advanced Life have these on their website for purchase. Please head to www.advancedlife.com.au (9 digit online code NWL 4NR ETY).
Tennis
Last Saturday saw ten teams play the Finals for the Term 4 NSTA competition. All teams played well, however Teams 7 (Luke and Ben Barwise), 9 (Shaun Patrick, Tamis Hunter, Tom Bradley, Andrew Bruce) and 11 (Xavier Field, Arrav Kumar, Austin Stapleton) proved too good on the day to win their Grand Final matches. Team 7 defeated our own Redlands Team 8 in a hard-fought match. Team 9 out played their opposition, only dropping a couple of games. Team 11 survived a tie breaker to take home the win. Congratulations on a great start to Summer Tennis.
This week, the Redlands 1sts Tennis team have been playing against the top 12 school teams nationally in the Australian Schools Tennis Challenge in Albury. It has been a fantastic week with amazing tennis, sportsmanship and teamwork. The team has been playing two matches a day. In our pool, we have had two very close matches, narrowly being edged out of the match win. We have also played two strong teams, Kelvin Grove State College (QLD) and Marryatville (SA) who showed confidence with shot choice and selection. Following the round matches, all teams enter into playoff matches. Best of luck to the team in their playoffs.
The Grand Slam Tennis coaching team are offering a Tennis Camp (Young Guns High Performance camp) aimed at high performing children in Yrs 5 to 8 in the December/January Summer holidays. Grand Slam Tennis would like to offer the Tennis Camp to the children of Redlands as part of their Tennis development.
Click here for online enrolment or contact Mr Stuart Thompson, Grand Slam Tennis Head Coach.
Touch Football
We had some mixed results with our senior teams, with our 1sts unfortunately going down to Barker College. Our 2nds went down to BMGS, but will be looking for a strong showing in the return fixture next term. Our 3rds and 4ths had some great victories over their respective Barker College opponents. Our 3rds were trailing 1-3 at half time but dug deep in the second half and took the match 4-3. Our 4ths applied some great pressure in defence, forcing errors from Barker and managing to capitalise on these errors, winning 4-1.
Our Junior teams have been showing great improvement each week, with a number of the teams looking to build next term in the run to the finals. Our Junior A, C and D teams travelled to BMGS, in what have proved to be tough games in previous seasons. Our Juniors had a strong 6-2 win which was a great bounce back from the previous week against Oxley College. Our Cs had a great win 4-1 bouncing back from a few draws in previous weeks. Unfortunately, our Junior D team went down 2-7 but showed great spirits throughout their game.
This week will see our 1st, 3rd and 4th Junior A and Junior B teams having a bye. Our 2nds, Junior Cs and Junior Ds will be taking on St Andrew’s at Macquarie University. All game 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.