AMDG SAINTS’ WEEKLY SPORTS AND CULTURE

Vol. 19 No 20 12th - 18th July 2019 [email protected] Edited by Mr. A H Macdonald

RUGBY SOCCER st 1 XV – We accept Churchill’s challenge and win a moral victory. U15 CHISZ Tournament at Westridge With 7 of our U18 Craven Week players back in action, we accepted the On Saturday 13th July our U15 boys participated in the Westridge invitation to take on Churchill as curtain raisers to the main Sa- CHISZ Soccer tournament. There were 8 teams, which were split in bles against match at Sports Club. two groups of four, Group A with Westridge ‘A’ Watershed, Flacon We kicked off to this massive Churchill pack and controlled proceedings for and St John’s while Group B had St George’s, , Pe- the first 7 minutes, when we were awarded an initial penalty after we had terhouse and Westridge ‘B’. Our boys were determined to go all the secured a good diving maul and Churchill had collapsed it. We took a quick way and win the trophy. tap and ran. We took advantage of the referee playing good advantage and Our first game was against Lomagundi College and within a minute we allowing the ball to get to L Mutendi for him to run around the defence and were trailing 0-1. It had to take a brilliant free kick from K Petersen open the scoring in the corner. and another wonder goal from M Katsidzira for us to subdue them as We made a vital mistake by kicking the ball out on the full at the restart. we came out victors with 2 goals to 1. We took aim next at Peter- They had a scrum in the centre mark which allowed them to press home house. Once again, K Petersen and M Katsidzira were on the score their advantage. After their number 8 had made a good run they had a sheet. C Nyachiwowa then scored again to leave the score line at 3-1 good move in the backs to create an overlap to score in the corner and in our favour. Our eyes were set on the semi-finals and with a game draw level 5-5 after 9mins. against Westridge ‘B’ it gave us the chance to rest some of our key players. We won the game comfortably with 4 goals coming from T The game hotted up with some good defence from every attack made by Magwaza, N Mashingaidze, C Nyachiwowa and M Chimhini. Churchill and we took an opportunity again to set up a line out after we were awarded a penalty for a dangerous high tackle. The ball was passed We topped the group with 9 points and were eagerly awaiting the back in the forward drive for N Makanza to dive over for a second try after results from the other group which had to take the toss of a coin to 25 minutes of play. We held on for the remainder of the half after some see who came first. Eventually, Falcon were placed at the top with St desperate play from both sides where some tough, hard challenges could John’s at second place meaning were had to play St John’s in the semi have resulted in some points for us towards the end, if we had not made -finals. simple handling errors. It was a tense encounter and both teams missed chances and defend- The second half saw us knock on from the start and then also force Church- ed well to keep the score at 0-0.The game went on to the dreaded ill to knock on and then in our next scrum we dropped our guard and made penalty shoot-out! We opted to kick first, and Chimhini stepped up a comedy of errors from the ball coming out wrong to hand an easy try for and scored first. They took their kick and our keeper S Mushava man- Churchill to draw level 10-10. aged to get his hands on the ball but not good enough to prevent it from going in. Up next for us was A Mukoyi who shot straight at the The match became intense again with both sides trying everything to break keeper and could not convert. They slotted in their kick leaving us through with some good runs countered with some good solid defence at trailing at 1-2. K Petersen blasted the next kick over the bar, luckily critical moments to prevent any more points to be added to the score- they also missed theirs to leave the score unchanged. board. The next two penalties were missed from both sides, with only one With 10 minutes left on the clock, the referee had obviously been informed kick remaining this meant we had to score in order to stay in the by the Zimbabwe officials that this was to be the last play after Churchill game. Unfortunately, T Jerahuni’s kick hit the woodwork and we had had a scrum on the half way mark! They ran from winning the ball but we to bow out of the tournament in the semi-finals. were awarded a penalty on about their 40m line. If we had a long range kicking specialist we could have banged it over and snatched a win! Despite our disappointment at losing to St John’s we were glad as the following four members of our team were chosen for the CHISZ U15 However, we did not; and so we went for our next best option which was to team: M Chimhini, T Magwaza, T Mutengwa (captain) and K Petersen. kick for touch and then take a line out. In the ensuing play Churchill won a We wish them well and hope they will go on to represent the school penalty and ran back at us with the hope of breaking through our defence. well. Our defence stood firm and we turned the ball over and sent it out wide for us to nearly get through to score, what would have been the winning try, By Mr S Chikodzi (Coach). but we knocked on the ball. SUMMARY OF RESULTS So ended a very entertaining game which really was a moral victory for St Georges over a Churchill team that had not lost a game up until this. Pool Matches Well played to our brave band of rugby players who took up the challenge v Lomagundi College Won 2-1 to this ‘All Conquering’ Churchill team! v Peterhouse Won 3-1 v Westridge Won 4-0 U16A Semi-finals We had so much pressure on us because the B team had lost. As always, we v St John’s College Lost 1-2 turned the pressure into a try in the first 5 minutes of the game. The scrum were uncontested because of a new law which resulted in us going through adversity. They managed to score an unconverted try just before half time. Players Selected for CHISZ team In the second half we had a good performance with good line outs and U15 U16 impressive running lines from T Lusiyano, L Johnson-Brickhill and T Matim- biria. They forfeited early in the half, allowing us to add a good win to the M Chimhini J Happi collection. Final score was 57-5 to our boys, K Petersen T Majid well done! T Magwaza D Samudzimu T Tichivangana RUGBY

2nd team woes continue U15A Churchill began the match by not kicking 10m from the start It was a well fought and enjoyable game versus Churchill. and allowing us to win our scrum from the middle, put in a From kick-off we started well with good possession good grubber kick to put us straight onto attack to force an putting Churchill on the back foot and scoring two good tries early penalty which T Chikoto made no mistake with the con- in the first half. In the second half our defence proved to be version. We led 3-0. However Churchill showed they had pace too strong for the opposition for large parts of the half. We a plenty in their line and from a short arm penalty soon after scored two more brilliant tries before conceding one in the restart they ran through almost untouched to score a 7 what proved to be the last movement of the game. All in all pointer from under the posts. our good defensive structure, teamwork and great attitude led us to a convincing 27-8 victory. We got the upper hand again with some good controlled run- ning rugby to set up a line out close to their line for D Maonga By T Mutatsa (U15A) to squeeze through their defence for a converted try near the U14A's demolish Churchill posts. We led 10-7. The A team scored 6 tries in each half as they put Churchill However, Churchill went straight back on attack and got into to the sword last Saturday. The final score of 70-5 was a fair the game again and seemed to take control with their back reflection of the game which Saint's totally dominated in all line having too much space to move in. they replied with two phases. It was a good warm-up for this week's big return converted tries with our defence becoming non-existent and match against John's in which Saint's have a lot to prove missing first time tackles in most phases. We did have a few after receiving a hiding early in the season. Chaponda con- injuries and had to shuffle some positions around to accom- tinued his prolific try-scoring record with 3 while Chikasha, modate our numerous subs who came on. The half time score Nyereyegona (both props) and Kawondera each scored 2 was 10-21 and we needed to up our game and put more com- tries and Njunga, Chingonzo and Mwipikeni got 1 each. Chig- mitment into our defence structure and cut out a lot of basic wedere managed to convert 5. errors that plagued our attack. B's bounce back to slay Churchill Churchill imposed their dominance on us and in the second half we succumbed to some good running rugby by their team The B team made amends for its dismal outing against Peter- and were intimidated by their aggressive nature, spurred on by house last week with a much-improved performance against their loud and sometimes overpowering coach from the side Churchill. The boys scored 4 tries in each half showing great- line. er fluency in attack. They also employed the pick-and-drive to gain good metres before releasing the ball to their backs Try as much as we did, we had no answer to their 5 tries that who were full of running. First-time tackling was another they ran in, 4 of which were converted. Too many players were positive for the boys to take into this week's game against guilty of hand bagging their attempts to stop a runner and too John's, who we drew with 1st time around. Tries were many times when we did not get the ball, we either kicked scored by Mlambo (2), Madzimure, Munashe, Madziyire, away possession or did not support the man with the ball, and Tawanja, Wazara and Mvura with Gwanzura converting 3. at half pace no one really posed a threat to a rampant Church- Final score 46-0. ill side that deserves their 54-10 win. By Mr P d'Hotman

SOCCER Overall Rugby Results v Churchill U16 CHISZ Tournament at St John’s College U14A Won 70-5 Pool Matches U14B Won 36-0 v Won 3-2 U15A Won 27-8 v Won 3-0 U15B Won 27-17 v Lomagundi Won 2-1 U16A Won 57-5 Semi-finals U16B Lost 10-17 nd v Peterhouse Lost 2-0 2 XV Lost 10-54 1st XV Drew 10-10 Finals v St John’s College Won 4-1

Volleyball v St John’s High Awards:- 2nd team Lost 1-2 Best Goal keeper – T Majid 1st team Lost 1-2 Best Midfielder – J Happi Player of the tournament – J Happi