Sports Shorts
Back to Newington Day Rugby Match, Half time v Wyvern Saturday 7 Sept (3.50pm approx.)
NZ Tour Trial Match v Lindfield Saturday 7 Sept (10.00am)
Interhouse Biathlon Sat 14 Sep at Senior School Pool
Interhouse Tennis Competition Sat 14 Sep at Senior Tennis Courts
Auskick K – 2 Monday 3.00 – 4.00pm
Wet Weather Number 9432 6460 (after 7.00am)
Sth Harbour Invitational Athletics Carnival
Another Saturday morning and another Athletics Carnival, this time at the timeless classic track that is Narrabeen Academy of Sport. It started as last week did with the field events, and it was great to see all the boys in attendance out on the field supporting their mates.
It was Toby Phillips, Chris Iannuzzi, Anthony Papadimitriou, Ned Stephens, Atticus Bertrams, Oliver Haig, Oscar Moody, James McGregor, Haydon Ashley, Louis Pidcock and Mark Elwaw doing their best again in their chosen events. The stand out competitor (this time in the field events) was young Bili Robertson. After jumping an impressive 1.19m in the high jump he backed this up with an amazing 4.24m in the long jump to finish 3rd overall.
The track events then came and went in a whirl of Sth Harbour and then Shore Invitational…it was difficult to keep track. In the midst there were some great performances from the Newington chargers. In the 9’s 200m it was Bili Robertson and Jake Goodhand scorching the track once again. The 10’s saw Vincent De Souza and Hamish Danks flying the flag admirably and the 11’s Rhett Schlaphoff and Daniel Nicholas were outstanding in their heats. The 12’s saw the trio of Marcel Chew, Patrick Fitzgerald and Haydon Ashley picking up where they left off last week with strong performances once more.
The 800m then saw Bili Robertson in a real tussle with a St Patricks runner, eventually conceding victory but running extremely strongly again. Harry Bell, Marc Mardini and Grayson Richardson were strong in the 11 years event and Haydon Ashley finished just ahead of Josh Macdessi in the 12 years event in another strong performance.
The 100m saw the first start for the very helpful and enthusiastic Nicholas Venetoulis who ran strongly in his event along with Mitchell Cope, George Evans and Ryoma Suzuki. The 9’s were outstanding with great runs from James McGregor and Jake Goodhand backed up with a brilliant (albeit a little tired!!) effort from Bili Robertson once more. After a strong run from Vincent De Souza in the 10’s, Rhett Schlaphoff was at it again along with Oliver Dwyer, Anthony Papadmitriou and Sebastian Vardavas in the 11 years. And the trio of Ashley, Chew and Fitzgerald ran beautifully again in the 12 years event.
The relay events saw a last minute reshuffle with Jake Goodhand being joined by Mitchell Cope, Nicholas Venetoulis and George Evans in the junior B event. After a very quick relay rundown it was straight into the event and they did Newington proud. Cope passed to Venetoulis who passed to Evans before a brilliant change (that would have made Mr Brunton proud) to star of the day Goodhand who finished very strongly indeed.
The Junior and Open relays saw very impressive performances also from all boys involved with a special mention going to Marcel Chew who backed up for the B and A relay, helping the B relay to a third placing in the process. A great effort by Chew and to all the boys in the final warm up before the big one next Wednesday……
QUAD Athletics Carnival
It seems like a broken record, but the Newington faithful were greeted to another beautiful sunny day as they descended once again on Narrabeen Athletics track for the most enjoyable of carnivals, the annual Quadrilateral carnival.
Fifty-one Lindfield chargers from Kindergarten to Year 6 were in attendance, creating quite an imposing black and white shadow across the pristine Northern Beaches outlook. Once everyone had settled in, warmed up and limber, it was time for the field events to start.
And it began with a great victory in the 11/12 years shot put from ever-improving Oliver Haig who threw 8.41m in taking out the event. Reuben Chippeck, Jarrah Ronan, Eddie Timpson, Haydon Ashley and Hamish Danks also placed in their respective field events.
This mouth-watering opening was only a taste of what was to come as the track events began. And it began with the little guys strutting their stuff for the first time in Newington colours. The Kindy boys accounted for themselves brilliantly with the 50m races, showing the future looks bright for the black and whites. Ewan MacCulloch and Harry Stuart stole the show in the 100m, winning their events with grace and style. Stuart and his Mosman counterpart could not be separated and both got the 1st place ribbon. Little Morgan Land and new boy Gabe Gordon ran beautifully to finish 1st in their 100m events. For the older boys it was IPSHA representative Haydon Ashley narrowly missing out on first place in his 100m event to the very strong Mosman competitors.
The 200m events saw Harry Stuart assert his dominance over the longer events, winning comfortably ahead of the Coogee boys. Matthew Gamble and Daniel Nicholas then did their thing in the 11 years 200m, Nicholas in particular running very strongly. James Whiteing and Haydon Ashley then showed why they are the distance kings as they won their 800m and 1500m events respectively.
The relays then came in a blur of flying runners and crazy baton changes, with Newington narrowly missing a place in all bar the 12 years event, with the teams from Mosman, Coogee and Pittwater House asserting their dominance. This only left the blue ribbon event, and an event that has been kind to Newington in the past….the Tug-O-War!!!
Captain Courageous Luca Russo took it upon himself to lead his team into battle and they easily accounted for the Coogee boys. The Mosman boys were also no match for the guile, strength and power of the year 6 clan. Pittwater House were next, and with two wins in the last three years under their belt, they weren’t about to let this year slip either. The Lindfield boys were valiant, but in the end were defeated by their very large rivals. So after this memorable performance, the best carnival of the year (bar the school carnival!!) was over for another year. What great feats of glory await us next year????
IPSHA Athletics Carnival
Another Athletics Carnival, another glorious 20+ degree day at the hallowed track of Homebush. The track that saw so many dreams begin at the start of August, was about to deliver at the end of August.
At the IPSHA Carnival it is all about dessert before main course! In Athletics terms this means relays first! And first on the track for the Newington crowd was the junior team of Vincent De Souza, Joe Reilly Makovec, James MacGregor and of course young Bili Robertson. And after a great start by Joe Reilly and an amazing back straight run by James the third change occurred outside the boundary area and the boys were disqualified! A tough initiation to the big time, but they will be all the better for the experience when the same event comes around next year.
The Senior relay thankfully did not suffer the same fate, instead running a very well controlled relay to finish 16th overall with a very impressive time of 57.71 seconds. The team of Marcel Chew, Sebastian Vardavas, Patrick Fitzgerald and Mark Elwaw did Newington proud and kicked off the carnival once and for all.
The 100m were a buzz of heat, after heat…., after heat….after heat. In amongst all those heats were some fantastic performances. The 8 year olds kicked it off with Nicholas Venetoulis, George Evans and Ryoma Suzuki all finishing with times of 18.25, 18.20 and 17.87 seconds respectively. It was young Mitchell Cope that would leave us breathless for the first time. After running an excellent time of 16.79 seconds and seemingly through to CIS in 6th place, it was quickly relayed that Mitchell had actually tied for 6th place overall with another boy from Claremont. As IPSHA only take 6 competitors, it was decided that a run off between the two would be the fairest way to decide who went through. And after a very strong finish, we nearly had to have another run off but instead 1st place and therefore the spot at CIS was given to the boy of Claremont, but Mitchell was all smiles to the end showing great resilience and ‘copeing’ strategies!!
The 9’s showed again why they are the boys to watch in the future as Bili Robertson (crook for most of the week leading up to the carnival) finished 8th overall in the 100m with s time of 15.69, closely followed by James MacGregor 16.07, Stefano Ottavio 16.23 and ever reliable Jake Goodhand 16.29. In the 10’s it was Joe Reilly home first with 16.17 before George Papamanuel 16.45, Jack Newton 16.57 and Vincent De Souza 16.67 finished strongly for the black and whites.
The 11’s saw a wonderful performance from Oliver Dwyer who finished 22nd in a time of 14.85 before an identical time between Sebastian Vardavas and Rhett Schlaphoff of 15.37 put them in 44th place. Anthony Papadimitriou then closed out the 11’s with a strong run of 15.41. The 12’s then saw Marcel Chew scorch the track once more and finish 15th overall with a wonderful time of 14.00 seconds. Patrick Fitzgerald 14.48, Haydon Ashley 14.74, and Mark Elwaw 14.79 all showed great determination and power in their heats.
The 800m saw the valiant Robertson push himself to the limit in finishing 8th in his event with a very strong time of 2:45.83. His shadow for the day and very talented athlete in his own right MacGregor finished with a time of 3:00.37. The 11’s saw young Harry Bell take the advice of one brazen Sportsmaster and pushed himself to the limit in the first lap of his heat, only to hold on valiantly to fourth in his heat, and 15th overall with a time of 2:43.58. Marc Mardini found the going a little tougher in the strong headwind, valiantly putting in a sprint finish to complete the event in 2:57.94.
Joshua Macdessi then ran an explosive first lap to set up an excellent 2:35.82 finish which left him a very impressive 12th overall. Haydon Ashley also fought hard but found himself boxed in at times during the first lap of his heat and finished with a time of 2:44.01 and 23rd overall.
In between the track events, the field events saw Jake Peterson throw 7.26m in the 11 years shot put, Chris Iannuzzi (after waiting for 4+ hours) threw 6.06m in the 12 years shot put, Louis Pidcock jump 1.20m in the 12 years high jump, Marcel Chew throw 20.31 in the Open Turbo Javelin, Mark Elwaw jump 4.08m in the 12 years long jump, Anthony Papadimitriou jump 3.54m in the 11 years long jump, Bili Robertson jump 3.32m in the Junior long jump and Oliver Haig throw 17.82m in the 11 years Discus……….but the day in the field belonged to one young man…..a modest, softly spoken young man who is starting to develop a reputation as the left-arm slinger!!
Atticus Bertrams left his mark on the IPSHA Carnival well and truly by firstly finishing 6th in the Junior Discus and qualifying for CIS with a throw of 22.72m, and then winning the Junior Shot Put event with a throw of 8.82m. A fantastic effort for a well deserved athlete of the future!!
The finale for what was a glorious almost spring day was the 200m and one more chance for young Robertson to make his mark….and he made the last one count as he ran a 31.22 into a strong head wind which left him in 5th place and through to CIS also. Jake Goodhand then showed why he also is an athlete of the future with a 32.73 before young versatile athlete Flynn Gannon ran a 34.78 to round out the Juniors.
In the 11’s it was the Lindfield connection with Daniel Nicholas winning his heat in a time of 31.11 before Harry Bell chimed in with 31.86 and the ever smiling Wyvernite Rhett Schlaphoff running a 31.71. The 12 years saw Marcel again finish in the top 20 with a run of 29.27, just ahead of the impressive Patrick Fitzgerald 29.80, and the tiring Haydon Ashley 31.73 who seemed to have put his all into his 800m event earlier.
So after another successful Carnival we bid farewell to the Athletics season for another year (apart from CIS) and look forward to the summer months and some time to prepare for the black and white assault on the IPSHA Carnival next year…..you have been warned!
Mr Mark Caulfield
Sports Coordinator
