Sport Report

Basketball

At the recently held Australian Schools Basketball Championships Makuach Maluach (10/FL) was a member of the NSW All Schools Basketball team. Makuach had a great week which accumulated in a 22 point and 12 rebound performance in the final against Queensland. Unfortunately NSW lost 82 – 67. but Makuach was rewarded for his efforts throughout the week with a selection in the Australian Schoolboy team which will tour the USA in December this year. Congratulations Makuach.

Cross Country

The Newington U14 Cross Country team have won the Junior division for the second year in a row, the boys ran consistently during the year, with pressure from Sydney Grammar School. But the boys held their nerve and finished the season strongly. The U16 boys finished the season in second place behind The Scots College. The Opens team in a tight field finished sixth. Well done to all boys who ran during the course of the season.

Rugby

At the completion of the AAGPS Rugby season the 1st XV finished in fourth position and the 2nd XV finished sixth with Scots College. Despite the boys’ best efforts the 1st XV were unable to defend their Premiership from 2013. Congratulations to Scots and The King’s School on their Premierships.

Table Tennis

Newington Table Tennis entered two teams into the Sydney Schools Team Challenge. There were 18 participating schools.

Team 1:

Ross Kovanis (11/LE) and Kevin Wong (11/LE) won through to the semi-finals before losing to the eventual winners East Hills High. The boys received a bronze medal.

Team 2:

Linus Aisutullin (11/ME) and Kerry Zhang (11/FL). In the rounds the boys finished second in their group and did not progress further in the teams competition. In the repecharge singles tournament both boys progressed to the quarter finals before losing. Linus lost to the eventual winner and Kerry to the eventual runner-up in his half of the draw.

Well done to the boys who participated and thanks to Mr Canning for his efforts in managing and coaching the boys.

Badminton

This was a truly historic event being the inaugural season for Badminton at Newington College. The “Top 8 Shoot-Out” could not have been have been closer, or more exciting. The Seniors (Year 11 and 12) came face to face with their Junior (Year 9 and 10) rivals on ‘Back to Newington Day’ in the Old Gymnasium.

First up was the doubles competition which resulted in a 2 all draw across 4 matches. Singles also were very close seeing the final top seed play-off with the Juniors down 5 matches to 6; however, Cedric Koh (10/MO) prevailed, which tied the overall points score at 6 all. On a points count back again the tournament was drawn as each team had 9 games to their credit. Finally, overall points calculations revealed that the Seniors prevailed by a very slim margin of 11 points.

A great morning’s competition was held with so many boys already looking forward to the 2015 season – hopefully including games against some of the other GPS schools.

Seniors Team: