AMDG SAINTS’ WEEKLY SPORTS AND CULTURE Vol 19 No 11 2nd April - 6th May 2019 [email protected] Edited by Mr A H Macdonald Rugby st 1 Team Rugby Tour 2019 Hellenic U16 Kershaw Cup 7 a side Tournament The 1st XV Rugby embarked on a tour to Grahamstown in the last week of the first term. Three games at the at the 125 year Kingswood tourna- Results : ment. The first game was against Hilton from Kwazulu-Natal, who are Group stages : v St John’s College Won 31-12 highly ranked in South Africa at the moment. We struggled in attack v Prince Edward Won 10-0 throughout this game with many unforced errors. We also conceded two soft tries in the second half which would cost us dearly. We eventually v Wise Owl Won 52-5 lost the game 12-21. Semi final : v Lomagundi Won 47-5 Final : v Peterhouse Won 14-12 Our second game was against Graeme College from Grahamstown. We made a few changes to the team to give everyone some game time, but the game went the same as the first. We struggled to hold onto the ball ad Dairiboard U16 made too many handling errors. The final score was 19-7. Results : v Churchill Won 31-3 Our third and final game was against Clifton. The team forgot to arrive v Lomagundi College Won 36-10 (man of the match B Nhekairo) for the game and before we knew it we were 20 points behind. However, we did score a couple of good tries in the game but still went down 36-17. v Kyle College Won 62-0 (man of the match T Lusiyano) At the end of the Tournament the team was presented with an award Despite losing all three games, the tour was a success and a great learning for the side exhibiting the most flair throughout. experience for both the coaches and the Dragons. The team has a tough Well done. season ahead and will be hoping for some positive results. A huge thank you has to go to Hammer and Tongues our kit sponsors and to the parents for funding this tour. Cricket B Brider Sam Curran Rugby What an amazing rise to glory and fame for this very 1st XV v Kyle talented young cricketer. This is a picture of Sam when St George’s 1st XV started well against Kyle showing their strong defence. he was still at St George’s College in 2012 when he met Early on the 1st XV was rewarded for their efforts through a well worked try by Super Star legend and West Indian Cricketer Chris T Rateiwa, whereby he caught and placed a perfectly placed kick from R Gayle. Munyeza down to score. Unfortunately, then due to our errors Kyle soon after replied and scored a converted try and then a penalty kick to make it 10-5 at half In the 7 very short years Sam has been in England he has time. In the second half the Dragons only had blitzes of motivation which re- risen, together with his eldest brother Tom to represent sulted in good tries from T Temba and R Munyeza. However these tries were England, but more so has gone from ‘Hero’ to ‘Team mates’ with Chris Gayle in this years IPL Super cricket not sufficient and more errors, combined with some poor tackling performances series. resulted in a 27-15 loss at the hands of Kyle, who capitalized on our mistakes and ran in 3 more tries. We need to focus on making less costly handling errors and tackles and put pressure on our opposition on attack. Well done and we wish him all the very best for his cricketing future. His brother Tom, has also been select- By : T Rateiwa ed to represent England in the World Cup T/20 series later this year. Well done to him. Hockey St George’s College 5 a side Tournament Hockey 1. St John's College 2 2. St George's College 1 St John’s College 1st team Festival 3. St John's College v Hippo Valley Lost 0-1 4. Prince Edward 2 5. Allan Wilson 1 v Hellenic Won 1-0 6. Kutama College v CBC Lost 0-3 7. St George's College 2 8. St George's College 3 v Lomagundi Won 3-1 9. Prince Edward 1 v Falcon College Lost 0-1 10. Gateway Volleyball (From 1st term Sat 6th April 2019) Tennis (From 1st Term) Prince Edward U20 Tournament We congratulate B Badza (U15) who has recently returned from Paris, France where he represented an All Africa Junior Tennis team who were invited to play in an International Tournament there. Pool B He did well to reach the quarter finals of the singles event to be placed 5th overall out of the 32 play- 1st team v Churchill Lost 1-2 ers. However he then went on to win the doubles title with his partner. v Prince Edward B Won 2-1 v Trust Academy Won 2-0 This is a fantastic achievement for this very talented young player. Well done. Quarter finals v Prince Edward A 0-2 HELLENIC U16 7s RUGBY KERSHAW CUP AND DAIRIBORD FESTIVAL GROUP STAGES Game 1 We were placed in group A which had St Johns College, Prince Edward School and Wise Owl. We kicked off against our local rivals, St Johns College and made our intentions crystal clear that we intended to take the cup home. The rams kicked to us and we gratefully received and wasted no time shipping the ball to the line and a good run by captain E Chitengwa resulted in a converted try between the posts. Moments later another fine run down the right wing by M Nyamakura resulted in an- other try. In no time the score surged to 17-0 but a lapse in defence enabled the green blazers to score a converted try. We went to the breather leading 17-7. Two more converted tries by the industrious T Lusiyano and Chitengwa sealed the match. Even though Johns managed another unconverted try, it was too little too late. Try scorers: E. Chitengwa (2), T Lusiyano and M Nyamakura. Final score Saints 31 Johns 12. Game 2 Prince Edward must have watched our demolition of Johns because they threw everything at us, determined not to suffer the same fate. Indeed we started off on the back foot but we soaked up the pressure and once again the illustrious captain E Chitengwa picked a loose ball and darted for the try line. Converting proved elusive, P.E. were quicker and more solid in breakdowns. An ever alert Kelton Kaseke intercepted a P.E. pass and outpaced the rivals defence to the try line. Once again con- version let us down. Half time scores stood at 10-0. The second half was pretty much a repeat of the first half. A P.E. right winger almost reduced the arrears but he had to contend with T Mabukwa who chased and brought him down inches from the try line. Our defence held on until the final whistle. Try scorers: E. Chitengwa and Kelton Kaseke. Final score Saints 10 P.E. 0 Game 3 Against Wise Owl, it was one-way traffic, the opposition simply had no answer to the marauding dragons. Tries started from kick off up to the end of the match. Four tries each half and all but one converted had the score board reading 52-5 when the referee blew the final whistle. It is amazing that Wise Owl managed a try, we must have fallen asleep thinking they were dead and buried. Try scorers: E. Chitengwa (2), T Changunda, T Mabukwa, T Lusiyano, Kelton Kaseke, M Nyamakura and B Nhekairo. Final score Saints 52 Wise Owl 5 We ended top in our group and were to meet the number 2 in group B Semi-final We had to wait for more than an hour to meet Lomagundi who had finished second in group B. Eventually the battle started and the boys in green drew first blood scoring an unconverted try. This was a slap in the face as the dragons made sure that was the only try the opposition would score. So incensed were the boys in red that they ran seven tries past the hapless boys from Chinhoyi. Three tries, two of them converted in the first half had the half time score at 19-5. Four more converted tries in the second half made sure we advanced to the finals. Try scorers: B Nhekairo, E Chitengwa (4), T Magodora, Kelton Kaseke (2), Final score Saints 47 Lomagundi 5 In the other semi-final between Peterhouse and P.E. the match went into sudden death after Peterhouse equalised in full time to leave the score 19-19. Peterhouse scored first in the sudden death and booked a place in the finals against the dragons. The Final This is what everyone had been waiting for. Peterhouse coaches had done their homework and the instruction to their team was simple, shut down Saints danger men, hit hard and counter attack. Soon enough they were leading 7-0 just after 2 minutes of play. They tackled hard and T Lusiyano was soon carried off with a concussion, we had to dig deep to equalise. Peterhouse scored another unconverted try and that was a costly error they would live to regret. Saints rallied and showed why they are the dragons, the captain E Chitengwa was unstoppable as he raced against the House defence to dot between the posts.