Sports Results for week ending 21 February 2016
Cricket Report:
Independent Schools Festival at St Alban’s
The 1st XI played a two day match against St John’s (Harare) and although the match ended in a draw on Friday there were some notable highlights, with Jordan Graven making 130 in Kearsney’s second innings, ably supported by Mitch Garvie and Steven Conway, making his debut for the 1st XI. On Saturday the 1st XI enjoyed a very good win against Kingswood College from Grahamstown with Brad Porteous and Jordan Graven, both performing well with the bat. Yesterday the 1st XI played against Helpmekaar and enjoyed a very good win in a 50 over match. Highlight of the match was a superb bowling spell from Matthew Lees who finished with figures of 5/5.
Kearsney 1st XI 167 & 312/8 St Johns (Harare) 1st XI 201 & 77/4
Match drawn
Kingswood 1stXI 181/8 Kearsney 1st XI 182/6
Kearsney won by 4 wkts
Kearsney 1st XI 250/9 Helpmekaar 73 all out
Kearsney won by 177 runs
With the 1st XI taking part in the St Alban’s Independent Schools Festival in Pretoria, the rest of the teams played fixtures against DHS and Umhlanga College. Despite several matches not being completed due to afternoon rain, those matches that were able to be completed were all won by Kearsney teams.
The 2nd XI had an emphatic ten wicket victory over DHS on the Smith Oval, while the 15A side emerged victors by 7 wickets. Both the 14A and 16A sides were well on top against DHS when the rain came. A couple of the lower sides also enjoyed good wins over Umhlanga College – the first meeting between these two schools, and a welcome addition to our fixtures list.
Batting Highlights:
1st XIGraven 130 (vs St Johns);Garvie 64 (vs St Johns); Conway 49 (vs St Johns)
Porteous 55 (vs Kingswood);Graven 46n.o. (vs Kingswood)
Stamatis 74 (vsHelpmekaar);Garvie 32 (vsHelpmekaar); Conway 31
2nd XILeibrandt 32n.o.; Sutherland 30 n.o.
16APringle 64n.o.; Patton 59;Brokensha 38 n.o.
16BGouveia 102n.o.; Hughes 71 n.o.
16CBoshi 63
15AStuart 36n.o.
14AHalstead 96; Stocks 32
Bowling Highlights:
1st XINkabinde 3/28 (vs Kingswood); Lees 5/5 (vsHelpmekaar)
2nd XILacon-Allin 3/5; Watts 3/15
16BProctor 3/3; Butler 3/13
15AKelly 3/16; Gibbon 3/15
15BYoung 3/1;Tsela 3/11; Saunders 3/10
14BBamber 6/8
Water Polo vs DHS:
U14A vs DHS 24 – 0 (Won)
U15A vs DHS 12 – 2 (Won)
2ndvs DHS 5 – 10 (Lost)
Basketball vsMolweni
Kearsney U16C won15 – 14
4th & 5th lost
Basketball 1st team: St Johns U18 Tournament
Pool Games:
Vs Royal Bafokeng 43 – 20 (Won)
Vs Waterford (Swaziland) 31 – 30 (Won)
VsBernato Park HS 68 – 11 (Won)
Vs Jeppe 35 – 34 (Won)
Vs St Johns (Harare) 35 – 33 (Won)
Vs St Davids Inanda 36 – 22 (Won)
Quarter Finals:
Vs DHS 27 – 49 (Lost)
We finished in the top eight from 28 Schools from Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique as well as the top South African basketball playing school.
Congratulations to Mvelo Buthelezi who was selected as a tournament All Star.
Squash Tour: St Andrews’ Festival Bloemfontein
Vs St Stithians 0 – 6 (Lost)
Vs St Albans 4 – 2 (Won)
Vs St Dominics 5 – 1 (Won)
Vs St Dustans 4 – 2 (Won)
Vs Menlo Park 2 - 4 (Lost)
Tennis Tour: Paul Roos Tennis Festival
Vs St Benedicts 2 – 7 (Lost)
Vs Paul Roos 0 – 9 (Lost)
Vs St Davids 1 – 8 (Lost)
Vs St Stithians 0 – 9 (Lost)
VsAffies 2 – 7 (Lost)
Vs Stellenbosch High 4 – 3 (Not finished)
Vs Clifton 5 – 4 (Won)
Water Polo 1st team: Pretoria Boys High Tournament
VsKes 6 – 14 (Lost)
VsAffies 10 – 15 (Lost)
Vs St Davids 3 – 11 (Lost)
Vs St Johns 4 – 11 (Lost)
Dusi Canoe Marathon
Over the weekend eightKearsney paddlers raced the Dusi Canoe Marathon.
The Dusi once again proved to be a serious challenge for all paddlers with weather conditions varying drastically from rain on day one, to intense heat on day two and thunder storms on day three.
The quality of the water did not make things easier with many paddlers suffering due to ingestion of ecoli bacteria.
Results were as follows:
K2
64th overall Rory McNeill and Timothy Marsh (5th U18)
81st overall Daniel Nedebok-Muller(intern) and partner
126th overall Matthew Pitcher and partner (11th U18)
192nd overall Steve Main and partner (11th mixed)
197th overall Trevor Finlay and partner
481st overall Matteo Buccimazza and Luke Plotts
513rd overall Warren Saxby and partner
K1
188th overall Gavin Keeley 1st U18 K1
221st overall Robert McConnell 2nd U18 K1
It was fantastic to see many Old Boys as well as5 of the last 6 Captains of Canoeing still racing the Dusi. (Rowan Ainsworth, Andrew Adie, Stuart Patterson, Evan Knight and Tim Marsh (2016).