Sports

Well done to the eight teams who all won their first round match against Emmanuel College (EMC) in SACCSS Premier League.

SCORES:

Boys Cricket - Mack 4/135 def. EMC 4/126

Girls Netball -  Mack 43 def. EMC 8

Boys Basketball - Mack 57 def. EMC 8

Girls Basketball - Mack 50 def. EMC 12

Boys Soccer - Mack 9 def. EMC 1

Girls Soccer - Mack 10 def. EMC 0

Boys Volleyball - Mack def. EMC 3 sets to 1

Girls Volleyball - Mack def. EMC 2 sets to 1

All teams have a bye  next week before playing CRC Caroline Springs at home on March 6.

Congratulations to Liam Cran of Year 9 on winning the 2012 MacKillop Masters Golf Tournament at Werribee Park.

Liam shot an excellent score of 83 to win his first Masters title. He will be joined by Chris Rae, Justin Green and Aidan Ramshaw in representing MacKillop at the SACCSS Golf Tournament on February 20.

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected as sports leaders in 2012.

Sports Captains – Adele Giarrusso & Nick Morda

House Captains –

Chisholm : Spencer Beasley, Tayla Karcoushkas, Stephanie Kearney

Cook : Celeste Casale, Josh Martignago, Daniel Stoios

Flinders : James Daly, Liam McMahon, Keenan Wardrope

Knox : Alyce Daniels, Rebecca Durso, Harrison King

Athletics Captain – Liam Mower

Cross Country Captain – Amanda Missale

Swimming Captain – Teagan Burns

Tuesday, September 20, at Meadow Glen, Epping:

MacKillop won four of the nine divisions- Junior Boys, Junior Girls, Junior Aggregate, Senior Aggregate. Four students won the individual champions medal in their respective age groups.

• Kirsty Gosling (Year 7) – 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m Relay
• Bradley Reynolds (Year 8) – 400m, Triple Jump, 4x100m Relay
• Sarah Chapman (Year 8) – 400m & 800m
• Harrison King (Year 11) – 100m & 200m

Other students to win multiple events on the day were: 

• Adele Giarrusso (Year 11) – 800m & 1500m; 
• Sean Cross (Year 8) – 800m, 1500m, 4x100m Relay
• Liam Mower (Year 10) – Long Jump & Triple Jump;
• Nyingong Bech (Year 7) – 100m & 4x100m Relay

On Tuesday, 20 September, 96 students represented MacKillop at the SACCSS Athletics Carnival at Epping.

At the end of 226 events, our students had won four of the nine divisions - Junior Boys, Junior Girls, Junior Aggregate and Senior Aggregate.

A special mention goes to Kirsty Gosling of Year 7 and Harrison King of Year 11 who both won the individual champions medal in their respective age groups.

Well done to all students on an outstanding performance.

SCORES: MacKillop 5.3.33 lost to Maribyrnong SC 14.6.90

Goals: D.Kerruish 2, J.Menadue 1, S.May 1, M.Copley 1.

Best players: J.Menadue, L.Scarborough, D.Kerruish, L.Grubb, B.Houlihan, M.Knezevic

SCORES: MacKillop 2 lost to Penola 4

Goals: J.Mezzatesta 1, J.Mizzi 1

Best players: D.Petrov, D.Tiatto, K.Boras

On 18 August, MacKillop’s first Chess team competed at the SACCSS Tournament at St Monica’s in Epping. A very enthusiastic team of Year 7 and 8 boys were successful in finishing second overall in the Junior division. A special mention goes to Year 8 student, Sunny Pidtala who won the silver medal after finishing in second place in a field of more than 80 competitors.

On 10 August,  the Senior Girls Netball team played in the SACCSS Grand Final at the State Netball Centre.  Unfortunately the girls went down narrowly in a high quality game worthy of a Grand Final.

SCORES: St Monica’s 26 def. MacKillop 24

Goals: L.Vercher 13, A.Giarrusso 11

Best: S.Kearney, L.Vercher, T.Karcoushkas

 

On 4 August, six students competed at the annual Schools’ Clay Target Championships held in Frankston. Congratulations go to Kaitlyn Sammut of Year 8 and Kiarra Preston of Year 10 who qualified for the State Finals to be held at Bendigo on 5 September.