During the first week of the holidays, Newington College hosted three Football teams from interstate schools for the Interstate Boys Coalition Football Cup. A squad of 16 boys was selected to represent the College in three games played over three days.

Our first game was against the current champions, St Peters College of Adelaide, and the ‘New’ boys showed their class with a 3-1 victory. Despite their lack of match practice and fitness, the Newington team showed great composure and maturity to defeat a well-drilled opposition.

The second match was against Canberra Grammar and the Newington boys proved to be of a different league comfortably winning 12-0.

The boys’ third and final game against Brisbane Grammar proved to be the toughest of the matches with our opponents sticking to a very defensive game plan. It was up to the Newington team to prove that they had the patience and maturity to overcome a unit whose directive was to keep us out at all costs. The boys came away with a 1-0 win with David Macarounas (12/KL) pulling off some impressive saves in goal to keep us in the game.

Special mention must go to Taylor Saito-Patch (12/MO), Jonathan Aspropotamitis (12/MA), Alex Piliotis (12/MA), Jamie Gorgovski (9/LE), Samuel Mehmet (10/MA) and Nicola Kuleski (12/MO) for making the ‘team of the tournament,’ and to Nicola for being named player of the tournament. A big thank you to Mr Crook, Mr Bremner and Mr Lawson as well as to all the parents involved for making the week such a sterling success.

Mr Justin Verco
Head of Football