AMDG SAINTS’ WEEKLY SPORTS AND CULTURE

Vol. 19 No 25 13-19 September 2019 [email protected] Edited by Mr. A H Macdonald

Basketball – Watershed U20 Tournament vs Prince Edward – 40-over matches St George’s ‘A’ St George’s ‘B’ U14A St George’s 172 all out (Magaya 60* not out. Choto 20) v Westridge Won 36-4 v PE Lost 19-48 PE 86 all out (T Manyeza 3-8. M Ndoro 3-26) v Watershed Won 40-12 v Heritage Lost 12-30 Result: - won by 86 runs v Lomagundi Won 24-14 v Peterhouse Won 24-19 Semi-finals vs PE Lost 9-24 U15A St George’s 192 all out (M Patel 43. G Ditima 21.) 1st team PE 131 all out (A Chipunza 4-16. K Petersen 3- V Mugabe N Mhlanga R Aliam T Bopoto B Etwop J Mufurutsa 28. M Yekeye 2-22) Z Chikoto T Jimha C Nsompa Results: - won by 61 runs T Sikosana Group Stages U16A St George’s 229 all out (T Lusiyano 31. M Raja 27) We cruised by the group stages as all the games were blow-outs of at least 10 points. This was due to the great two way play of our basemen and the PE 78 all out (M Raja 5-6. T Chisango 2-9. P offensive prowess of our guards. We played Westridge, Watershed and CBC and the scores were 36-4, 40-12 and 24-14 respectively. Chikukwa 2-3). Result: - won by 151 runs Semi-final

It seemed everything was against us in the semi-final as we lost to a PE team st that had our number. They shut down our key players and held us to our 1 XI PE 82 all out (L Mutendi 4-3) tournament low of 9 points, and despite our great defensive performance they managed to score their own tournament low of 24 points as they went St George’s 86 – 1 (G Chirawu 64* not out) on to win the tournament. (in 8 overs) 2nd Team Result: - won by 9 wickets. T Costas P Muasunzambwa Cricket - Saint’s U15A cruise to victory K Chikukwelu C Badza Saint’s batted first against PE and got off to a bad start losing 3 wickets very Ndoro Foto T Magede quickly. From then on, several partnerships looked promising until another The atmosphere was tense from the beginning to the end. Our first game was against Prince Edward. We knew that this would not be an easy game at batsman gave his wicket away. Saint’s were in big trouble at 93 for 7 after 25 all. The game started off fast paced and PE scored first. They had two giants overs, before Ditima joined Patel and they set about rebuilding the innings who made it extremely difficult for us to get rebounds. Later we managed to with a match-saving partnership of 80 runs. Ditima managed 21 before step our game up but we knew we were fighting a losing battle. The game getting out and Patel continued his good work with the last 2 tail-enders went in favour of PE but we maintained our composure. before falling for 43 leaving Saint’s 192 all out. Our loss to PE gave us a taste of how this tournament was going to end. Our In their chase the visitors were in early trouble as wickets from Chimhini and next opponent was Heritage. We had been underestimating Heritage and Yekeye left them at 17 for 2. Ten overs later it was Yekeye with his second for this we were given a taste of our own medicine. They came prepared and the team’s third wicket breaking a threatening stand and the writing was and beat us. It was a worse defeat compared to our loss against PE. on the wall for PE. Regular wicket takers Chipunza and Petersen made light work of the remaining PE batting as they ripped through the rest of the line- We were demoralised and felt embarrassed. When we heard that our next up. The duo shared 7 wickets between them with Chipunza getting 4 for 16 in game was against Peterhouse we had hope of grabbing a win. Usually when we play Peterhouse we normally win so we thought it was just a walk over. 9.5 overs and Petersen returning 3 for 28 in 8 overs as PE succumbed to 130 We started off very well and took an early lead. We scored a lot of points all out. This ensured a positive start to the season as Saints took a well- compared to our last two games and we wanted to score more. deserved and eventually easy 61-run victory. Unluckily, time was not our side and the game ended before we scored the number of points we wanted to get. We consoled ourselves that we had won a game and had not lost all the games. Volleyball St John’s U20 Tournament It was a good learning curve for the 2nd team and we can chalk it down to experience. Pool Matches vs CBC - Won 2-0 vs St John’s ‘B’ - Won 2-0

vs Peterhouse - Won 2-1 – Friendly Gala at St George’s College Position School Points Semi-final vs St John’s ‘A’ - Won 2-1 1st St John’s College ‘A’ 290 2nd Peterhouse 268 Final vs Peterhouse - Won 2-0 3rd Hellenic Academy 256 st nd 4th St George’s College 244 (4 X 1 Places and 7 X 2 Awards Best Attacker - C Mukandiona Places) th Most Valuable Player - G Mbambu 5 St John’s College ‘B’ 162

Waterpolo – Grant Tulley Trophy v Hellenic Academy 1st Team vs St John’s College Lost 9-12 The junior teams kicked off the season with not so convincing performances against Hellenic Academy last Friday. vs Hellenic Lost 5-8 U14 went down 2 – 10 to the hosts, T Jasi and his partner C Sithole struggled vs Peterhouse Won 8-7 to win their doubles, only winning in the tie break. However, T Jasi overpow- vs CBC Lost 3-15 ered his opponent in the singles. All the players in this team will need to work very hard on the courts to improve their skills. The fact that the numbers are vs Falcon Lost 4-16 very limited in the U14 side means that everyone, whether competent or not, Junior Matches will have to play. U16A vs St John’s College Lost 2-15 U15 fared much better winning 9 – 3 away. M Jambo and T Nkomo were un- U15A vs Peterhouse Won 10-3 lucky to lose their doubles 6 – 7 in the tie break. The other three couples com- fortably won their doubles. Even though D Tagarira and T Nkomo lost their U14A vs Peterhouse Drew 4-4 singles, they gave their opponents a good run for their money. The Holiday training sessions definitely had a lot of bearing on these results. Karate (Shuko Kai) – Club Tournament U16 drew 6 – 6, we could have edged Hellenic had the couple of T Mutimba and Z Chiura not succumbed in the tie break. However, we had a good show- Kumite Team Fight ing in the singles where the captain N Senjanje, Z Chiura, O Chinyanga, R Mari- Won Drew Points wa and Y Jambo prevailed over their opponents. It just goes to show that this Old Hararians 3 1 14 team needs to practice more doubles. Communication between couples was rather poor. St George’s College 2 - 9 st Prince Edward 1 1 9 The 1 team had a great start to the season dispatching Hellenic 10 – 2. We took all the doubles and as a consolation, the visitors managed to snatch two Individual Kata Results singles. Second seed M Raja was convincing in seeing off his opponent 6 – 1 / 6 – 0. T Mumvuma was equally ruthless 6 – 1 / 6 – 2, T Tsingano 6 – 3 / 6 – 0 J Dondo (St George’s) Tie 3rd Place. and M Mberi 6 – 2 / 6 – 2. This weekend will see the seniors play Prince Edward in a league fixture on Squash - 2nd Term League Results Friday. They have a date with CBC the next day in the Mim du Toit tourna- ment quarter finals. Two tough encounters that will definitely push the boys League Team Position to the limit. 1st A 4th place 2nd B 6th place Tennis vs Hellenic - Summary of Results 3rd C 6th place U14 Lost 2-10 4th D 1st Winners 5th E 2nd Runner-up U15 Won 9-3 U16 Drew 6-6 D Team— B Van der Merwe, N Fleetwood-Bird, J Kamasho, A 1st team Won 10-2 Junaid and B Raynars. E Team—R Chikasha, T Kuveya, C Da Silva, K Nyakachiranje and D Phiri. Badminton v Westridge Congratulations to these junior teams who did well in their re- Couples vs Westridge Boys Lost 0-3 spective leagues. We need more junior players to show commit- ment to squash in order to improve in the higher leagues in 2020. Couples vs Westridge Girls Won 2-1 Singles overall Lost 4-7 CHICHESTER POINTS TO DATE B G H J Cross Country – Standards (50) 12.36 14.09 12.78 10.77 INTERHOUSE SQUASH Cross Country – Finals (50) 12.63 12.48 15.21 9.68 Jnr Int Snr Total Pts Position Athletics - Standards (75) 18.29 18.85 18.78 19.08 Barthelemy 6 5 5 16 1st Athletics - Finals (75) 18.85 18.65 19.09 18.41 Gardner 4 5 4 13 3rd Pentathlon (15) 3.5 3.62 4.48 3.4 Hartmann 5 4 6 15 2nd Drama (25) 8.24 5.34 4.52 6.9 Johanny 3 4 3 10 4th Public Speaking (25) 6.38 6.1 6.17 6.35 Music (25) 7.05 5.56 5.98 6.41 Hockey (75) 33.54 26.67 5.55 9.24 INTERHOUSE CHESS Rugby (75) 12.5 16.67 20.83 25 Total Board Teams P W D L Position Soccer (75) 13.9 19.44 22.22 19.44 Pts Tennis (25) 8.08 5.38 6.92 4.62 Barthelemy 3 1 2 0 8 2nd Volleyball (25) 4.38 9.37 9.37 1.88 Gardner 3 1 1 1 5 3rd Badminton (25) 3.95 3.95 13.15 3.95 Hartmann 3 0 0 3 1 4th (25) 7.85 9.67 4.56 2.92 Johanny 3 2 1 0 10 1st 1st Aid (25) 6.16 6.89 5.52 6.43 Quiz (25) 6.45 7.02 4.42 7.11 INTERHOUSE SQUASH Squash (25) 3.87 9.23 0.89 11.01 Snrs Jnrs Total Points Position Studies (200) 46.88 50.29 49.15 53.68 Barthelemy 9 4 13 3rd Chess (25) 8.33 5.21 1.04 10.42 Gardner 13 18 31 2nd Basketball (75) 22.22 18.06 20.83 13.89 Hartmann 0 3 3 4th Sub Total 265.41 272.54 251.46 250.59 Johanny 18 19 37 1st