Cross Country

Newington Cross Country runners participated at the NSW All Schools Cross Country Championships at Eastern Creek on Friday July 20. Listed below are some of the outstanding results achieved:

18 Years Pat Elliott (12/ME) – 3rd

17 Years Morgan McDonald (12/MO) – 1st

14 Years Callum Lowe-Griffiths (9/PR) – 9th

12 Years Matt Dyster (4/CO) – 2nd

Congratulations to all boys who competed

Football

Interstate Boys Coalition (IBC) Football Trophy

During the July holidays the Newington College 1st XI travelled to St Peters College in Adelaide to participate in the IBC Football Trophy.

In late 2008 it was decided to form a coalition of successful boys’ schools across Australia with similar aspirations, programs, values and visions. This coalition allows for a sharing of information, ideas and initiatives, opportunities for staff and boy exchanges; and opportunities for sporting and cultural pursuits.

The tournament was first played in 2009 between Newington College (hosts), St Peters College, Adelaide, Brisbane Grammar & Canberra Grammar. These 4 schools have participated in all 4 tournaments with Newington winning (2) and Brisbane Grammar (1). This year was again a very competitive tournament for the boys.

In the first game Newington played Brisbane Grammar and came out winners 2-1. The second game now appeared to be our hardest from the results the day before where St Peters defeated Canberra 7-1. It was with the boys losing 1-0 with a late goal from St Peters coming from a counter attack.

In the final day the boys played with the same consistency as the previous two games. Newington came out winners 5-1 against Canberra Grammar and finish in second place. Congratulations to the winners St Peters College Adelaide who won 2 games and drew 1.

A big thank you to Newington College coaches Mr Ian Crook, Mr Justin Verco and St Peters College for looking after us whilst in Adelaide.

Rifle Shooting

The All Schools Shooting Competition was held at Malabar on Saturday 13th July. The Armidale School, New England Grammar School, Shore School, The Scots College, Sydney Boys High School and Newington entered the competition. Newington entered two team of five students which performed very well. Darcy Pointon (12/JN) scored the third highest score of the day. He scored 144 out of 150. This followed his excellent performance in the NSW U25 City team on the previous Sunday where he scored 194 out of 200.

At the AAGPS Shooting Competition Darcy had the seventh highest score and was therefore selected in the AAGPS Shooting Team for 2013.

Rugby

During the school holidays members of the Newington 1st XV were selected to represent the NSW Schoolboys and Combined States teams at the Australian Schoolboy Rugby Championships.

NSW 1st XV

Lachlan Cannell (12/FL) – Captain

Matthew Serhon (12/FL)

Tepai Moeroa (12/JN)

Taane Milne (12/JN)

Vunipola Fifita (11/FL)

NSW 2nd XV

Joey Lussick (12/JN) – Captain

David Morris (12/KL)

Mesui Tufui (12/ME)

Anthony Vasilis (12/LE)

Josh Mitchell (12/KL)

Combined States (NSW and QLD)

Simon Kennewell (11/ME)

From the Championships Newington had a record number of boys selected to represent Australia and Australia A in games to be held later in the year against Fiji and New Zealand.

Australia

Lachlan Cannell (12/FL)

Tepai Moeroa (12/JN)

Taane Milne (12/JN)

Vunipola Fifita (11/FL)

Australia A

Joey Lussick (12/JN)

David Morris (12/KL)

Mesui Tufui (12/ME)

Rugby League CIS Recognition

Congratulations to Cameron Murray (10/ME) on being voted the most valuable CIS player at the recent U15 Rugby League Championships in Canberra.

Special congratulations to Joey Lussick (12/JN), who was selected in the U18 Years Australian Team to travel to New Zealand in September. This is a wonderful achievement and the first CIS player to be named in a National Schoolboys Rugby League Team since 2007.