Sport Report

Pacific School Games

Commencing on Saturday 21 November for a week, students aged between 10 – 19 years from at least 12 countries, including every Australian state and territory will compete in the Pacific School Games. Australian students qualify for the Games through their state or territory school sport unit pathways and international students follow their national school sporting association pathways. The sports of Swimming, Diving, Basketball, Touch Football, Baseball, Softball, Football, Table Tennis and Goalball will feature in the 2015 Games. This year the Pacific School Games are heading to Adelaide. Newington will be represented by the following boys.

Basketball

Grant Anticevich (11/KL)
Makuach Maluach (11/FL)
Coach: Mr Rex Nottage

Swimming

Callum Lowe-Griffiths (11/PR)
Jason Hartill (10/MO)
Jack Xu (7/ME)

Tennis

We would like to wish the Newington 1sts and 2nds Tennis teams all the very best for this Saturday as the official GPS competition commences. The boys have been training well and can look forward to a successful season.

Water Polo

The following Newington water polo players were selected to represent GPS at the CIS Water Polo tournament which was held last week. The GPS team won the competition.

Ned Churchyard (10/ME)
Harry Dickens (10/LE)
Harry Gilkes (10/KL)
Nico Maclean (9/KL)
Aidan Schmitt – Reserve (9/MA)

From this tournament a CIS team was selected. Congratulations to Ned who was selected in this team. Mr Ryan Moar, Director of Aquatics at Newington will coach the team.

Cricket

Though the Cricket season is in its infancy Matthew Putt (10/PR) has found tremendous form with the bat. In the recent Canberra Grammar Cricket Exchange Matthew scored unbeaten centuries on consecutive days in T20 and 40 over fixtures to assist his team to victory.

Matthew then scored 159 not out in total of 280 for the 2nd XI against Sydney Boys High in Round 1 of the GPS competition. Newington took full points from the opening round.

We offer our congratulations and wish Matthew further success.