Match of the Round – Open A Cricket v Grammar Edgecliff

It was a beautiful sunny day at Queens park as the Open A’s played their last game of the term against Grammar Edgecliff. Grammar won the toss and elected to bat first.

Ethan Nemeth and Liam Wyatt-Smith opened the bowling, and both took wickets in their opening spell. Throughout the bowling innings, the Open A’s showed great enthusiasm and urgency in the field. At drinks, Grammar were 2/48 and Mr Caulfield gave us a quick pep talk. Grammar went on to score 8/93.

There were two run-outs by Charlie Timpson and Harry Bell. The key wicket takers were Ethan, Liam, Harry Bell, Hugh Holm and Harry Quinn and a great catch by Charlie. The other coach noted Harry Quinn was bowling with great speed by the end of his third over.

Charlie (8) and Harry Bell (8) opened the innings making 15, the best opening partnership of the season. After hitting 2 fours, Harry Bell was caught for 8 to a beautiful diving catch. Callum (11) and Luca (11) put on an excellent patient partnership picking up lots of singles. At drinks, Newington were also 2/48.

Some quick wickets followed the drinks break before Julian Burrows and Harry Quinn steadied the innings. It was a day of singles and Newington got themselves close requiring 10 runs from the last over. Newington scored 8/86, so close but not quite there.

Man of the match was Harry Bell for his all-round contribution. A game played in good spirit and an encouraging way to finish Term 1 Cricket.

Written by Harry Bell – Year 4

IPSHA Swimming and Diving Carnival – SOPAC

After a long day of waiting, with his event one of the last on the programme, Anthony Gestakovski capped off a successful IPSHA swimming carnival for Newington with a fighting 3rd placing in his 12 Years 50m butterfly. Throughout the day of competition, Newington’s representatives swam admirably. The boys recorded many PB’s in the pool at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, and matched it with some of the best swimmers in the state.

The day started with Tom Alscher, Jarrah Ronan, Gaelen Dorigo and Flynn Leung Nicholson providing a fantastic Jnr relay result of 9th overall. This result surely inspired the Snr relay team of Keiran Corcoran, Tom Ball, Miles Parhash and Eden Horne to finish 7th in a super fast heat. Jarrah, Miles and Eden then took to the pool in the 200m individual medley. Jarrah narrowly missed CIS selection in this event with a fantastic 6th overall in the Jnr division. Miles and Eden also swam well in the Snr division with Miles finishing in the top 10 overall.

Freestyle was next to occur with the Newington young guns Nicholas Venetoulis and Angus Rowe competing in the 8 Years heats. The future looks bright, with the boys swimming an almost identical time in the same heat finishing 11th and 9th overall respectively. Lachlan Hull (2nd in heat) Thomas Kennedy (2nd in heat) Flynn Gannon (1st in heat) and Angus Bourne (5th in heat) all made great efforts in the 9 Years division. The Jnr relay team then competed as individuals in the 10 Years division. Jarrah Ronan (1st in heat) just missed CIS selection once more in finishing 7th overall. Tom Alscher, Gaelen Dorigo and Flynn Leung Nicholson continued the impressive relay performance with placings in their respective heats. Eden Horne led the way in the 11Years division with a 3rd in his heat. Sebastian Wyatt flew down the pool to finish 2nd in his heat shortly after. Marc Mardini followed with one of the performances of the day. Missing the start by many lengths, Marc displayed great tenacity by gathering in many opponents to finish a remarkable 3rd in his heat. The 12 Years division saw Miles Parhash finish 10th overall with a 2nd in his heat. Kieran Corcoran (7th in heat) and Tom Ball (6th in heat) swam great races. Louis Pidcock in an outside lane, swam an outstanding race to finish 2nd in his heat beating many more fancied rivals.

Backstroke saw Ronan, Dorigo, Horne, Parhash and Pidcock back in the pool. Once again Jarrah Ronan just missed a top 5 overall placing which would earn CIS selection. Newington’s disappointment for Jarrah was somewhat relieved shortly after, with Swimming Captain Miles Parhash finishing 5th overall, thus gaining selection in the IPSHA team for the CIS carnival.

Jnr Breaststroke saw Jarrah Ronan continue his outstanding day with 7th overall, Gaelen Dorigo finished 4th in his heat. 11 Years saw Eden Horne and Alexander Rumi swim well. Alexander was especially impressive recording a fast time finishing 2nd in his heat, before unfortunately being disqualified for a small technical error. Miles Parhash finished 1st in his heat and 10th overall and Tom Ball 4th in his heat both represented in the 12 Years division.

100m freestyle open division once again included exceptional performances from Miles Parhash and Eden Horne with the boys finishing 2nd and 1st in their heats respectively.

The programme finished with the butterfly events. The Jnr butterfly gave one more opportunity for Jarrah Ronan to earn a place on the IPSHA team for the CIS carnival. After a long day of near misses, Jarrah pulled one more unbelievable performance out to finish 4th overall and gain a deserved place on the rep team. Fallon Fotaras then swam a PB in his butterfly heat just missing a place on the podium. Eden Horne completed his butterfly and an immense day of competition in his 7th event. Sebastian Wyatt continued to improve with his butterfly swim in the 11 Years division. The 12 Years division saw Miles Parhash finish with another overall top 10 finish and as mentioned prior, Anthony Gestakovski’s performance was well worth the wait!

Mark Caulfield 
Sports Coordinator