Athletics

Congratulations to Angus Beer (8/ME) and the Junior 4 x 400 m Relay team for the records they set at the GPS Athletics carnival on Saturday 9 May.

Angus set two new GPS records and the Relay team set a new Newington record.

Angus Beer
U13 800 m – broke a 10 year record 2 min 05:68
U13 1500 m – 4 min 27:06 Junior 4 x 400 m Relay team – 3min 54:87

Harry Clarke (9/MO)

Nick Condon (8/FL)

Haydon Ashley (8/LE)

Lachlan Watson (9/FL)

Congratulations to all the boys!

Swimming

On Wednesday, 29 and Thursday, 30 April sixteen of our Newington Swim Team members competed at the Combined Independent Schools Swimming Championships.

Congratulations to the following boys have qualified to swim for the CIS at the NSW All Schools Championships:

Callum Lowe-Griffiths (11/PR) (200 m Individual Medley, 400 m Freestyle, 200 m Freestyle, 200 m Backstroke, 100 m Backstroke, 50 m Backstroke)

Jason Hartill (10/MO) (100 m Butterfly, 50 m Butterfly)

Marcus Dadd (9/ME) (Multi-Class 100 m Freestyle, 50 m Backstroke, Relay)

Jack Xu (7/ME) (100 m Breaststroke, 50 m Breaststroke, 100 m Freestyle, 50 m Backstroke)

Edward Wydell (7/ME) (100 m Butterfly)

Football

Newington College travelled to Wollongong and recorded a stirring victory at Macedonia Park in a wind-ravaged match in which Illawarra Grammar School were a really aggressive and dangerous opponent. The first half saw TIGS dominate the opening 20 minutes with Harry Timms (12/KL) and Alex Iannuzzi (12/MO) impressive under pressure. Gradually the “Black and Whites” exerted control on proceedings with Finn Ballard McBride (10/PR) (fresh from his double winning 800 m and 1500 m winning GPS runs) and Connor Eldridge (11/PR) increasingly prominent. After a measured build up McBride swept home a superb right foot finish before half time.

The second half saw Newington command the game with a really eye-catching display of grit, nous and class as a terrific free goal from captain Alex Iannuzzi and a Jeremi Campese (11/MA) “sizzler” put us 3-0 up. TIGS grabbed a late consolation goal but Sam Mehmet (11/MA), James Icanovski (12/KL), Dom Siu (11/MA)  and Campese all went close to stretching Newington’s lead.

The game was played on a fine surface at Macedonia Park. Next up Quarter-Final time for the “Newie Boys”.