EQUESTRIAN CHAMPION SCHOOL

St John’s Equestrian Team took part in the 12th Annual Berry Interschool Equestrian Championship on 5-7 October 2019 at Worrigee Equestrian Common.

This year our team consisted of 9 riders who competed in Dressage, Hacking, Sporting, Show jumping, Hunter and the 3 Phase Interschool Challenge with some fantastic results from all students who competed. St John's team spirit and camaraderie shown to their peers is to be commended. All the hard work that goes into preparing a horse and rider to compete at this level paid off as the team won Champion Secondary School for accumulated points from all 9 competitors over the 3 day event.

Some of the highlights include Jack Rutledge who was awarded Champion Year 9 rider and won both the 75cm (Fault and out class) and 90 cm (Superphase class) in the secondary showjumping.

Luca Winchester was awarded Reserve Champion Year 7 rider and won the 75cm showjumping (Superphase class) and the 3 Phase Interschool Challenge.

Lois Fleming was awarded Reserve Champion Secondary Showjump rider and won the 1.05m Showjumping (Jumpoff class), while McKayla Smith won the 60cm Hunter class for years 9-12. Brigitte Herne, Bayli Batchelor, Kieara Richards, Penny small and Kiera Hitchcock all placed in the hacking ring, with Bayli Batchelor receiving outstanding results taking home six 1st place ribbons on the day. 

Well done to the St John’s the Evangelist Equestrian Team once again for their outstanding results and team spirit!

Click here to view a 2minute compilation of photos of our Equestrian team!

Ms. Kristy Hall

Equestrian Coordinator/ Teacher

Girls AFL

On Friday 18 October eighteen girls from Years 7 to 9 travelled to Macquarie Fields to play in the Dioscesan AFL Gala Day. Our girls were ranked highly in Pool B and started the day against a tough St Mary's team who snatched a deciding quick goal, unfortunately resulting in an 8-1 loss. The newly formed combinations and a fast and physical pace from our team showed lots of promise for the tournament ahead.

During the next three games against Corpus Christi (39-0), Magdalene Catholic College (13-8) and John Terry (13-7) the girls really clicked into gear. Great teamwork, accurate goal shooting and some tough defence led to three wins on the trot. With a 3 - 1 winning record we advanced from Pool B with a 2nd place ranking to take on the winner of Pool A Holy Spirit College in the semi-final. The girls persevered against a skillful Holy Spirit team going down 18-1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our final game against St Patricks was a playoff for overall 3rd place. It was an evenly matched contest in which narrowly went down ending our day in 4th place overall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A special mention to a brave Keeley Longbottom who suffered a painful ankle injury in the dying minutes of the final game. The whole team rallied around her and showed maturity beyond their years to get packed up and patiently wait for an ambulance for Keeley. I was not only very proud of the way they handled themselves on the field, but more importantly the manners, positive nature and helpful attitude this whole team brought to the day. Thank you girls, you were a pleasure to coach.

Mr Joshua Watson

Teacher

                                                                                                  

U/15 BOYS AFL CHAMPIONSHIPS

On Friday 18 October, students from St John the Evangelist travelled to Fred Finchley Park in Berkeley for the U/15 Boys AFL championships. Playing in warm and windy conditions we started the day against St Joseph’s, in an arm wrestle of a match, a late goal to Jarrah Treweek proved to be the difference giving us a two point win, with outstanding performances by Dylan Johnstone, Lachie Almond, Jarrah Treweek and Sam Phillips. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our next match was a high scoring affair with both sides making the most of the smaller ground. Early goals to Lachie and Adam Staunton kept St John’s in the match but two late goals to Mt Carmel saw them taking a 10 point lead into half time. In an entertaining second half, Mt Carmel were too strong despite goals from Caleb Cook and JarrahTreweek and some excellent play in the midfield from Adam Staunton and Christian Page. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The third match of the day was played in very difficult and windy conditions against John Terry. In a low scoring match, a few missed set shots and a late goal to Reece Manasseh wasn’t enough to give St John's victory going down by 6 points. Lachie Almond and Caleb Cook were prolific in midfield and Dylan Johnstone and Reece were proving a handful up forward. 

 

Our final match of the day was against Holy Spirit. After being solid in defence for most of the day, Charlie Dunn was moved forward and proved to be the difference providing an avenue to goal and kicking four of his own. After taking several strong marks, Cayden Lewis got on the scoreboard with a nice goal and Samuel Phillips and Reece Manasseh continued their strong forward play finishing with a goal each. Due to some excellent work in the midfield by Adam Stauton and Caleb Cook, we were able to hold off a fast finishing Holy Spirit to run away with the victory.          

 

A special mention to Brad Church for his assistance on the day as Assistant Coach, Lead Photographer and Waterboy.     

 

            Mr Aidan Leishman

Teacher 

 

JUNIOR BOYS BASKETBALL 

Our sleepy eyed boys basketball teams left school at 6am to travel to the Campbelltown Basketball Stadium to compete in the Diocesan Dala Day.

The Junior team of Lachlan Almond, Lachlan Callaghan, Joshua Costain, Mitchell Davis, Finn Lochrin, Harrison Petre, Benjamin Royston, Austin Shingleton, Dash Stewart and Daniel Walker played well as a team against teams that were generally older and bigger. We had an excellent win in the later stages of the day and we look forward to next year when almost the full team will return in the same division year.

                                                                                                                                    Mr Denis Smith

Teacher 

 

JUNIOR GIRLS BASKETBALL 

The Junior Girls Basketball team made their way to Wollongong on Monday 21 October. Dakota Yates, Melanie Staunton, Jarrah Fuz, Phoebe Szymoniczek, Kate Fairbairn, Maggie Smith, Charlotte Roberts and Ruby Marshall made up the team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our team was a lot younger and smaller than most of the opposition and the girls showed great sportsmanship and determination throughout the day. Overall, the team finished in 7th position, with stand out players on the day being Dakota Yates, Melanie Staunton and Kate Fairbairn.     

Miss Lisa Paton

Teacher

                                                                                                                                      

JUNIOR BOYS CRICKET- SUPER 8'S COMPETITION

On Wednesday 23 October, our Junior boys competed in the Super 8’s competition at Thomas Dalton Park, Fairy Meadow. In sunny conditions, we were eager to get off to a good start against St. Josephs. After winning the toss and sending them into bat, a strong opening partnership had our bowlers on the back foot.

After some clever bowling from Campbell Bramley we claimed our first wicket and slowed down the opposition run rate. After the 6 overs we were set a total of 63 to chase. Our opening batters Lachlan Almond and Christian Page both made impressive starts and with two overs to go a victory was insight. A difficult 5th over saw our boys needing 15 runs off the last over for victory. Lachlan (25 runs) and Christian (21 runs) made much needed runs but some line and length bowling and fielders covering the outfield, we fell two runs short of victory. 

 

Our next match was against St Benedict’s. We won the toss and elected to bat.

Daniel Moodley (22 runs) and Christian Page (29 runs) kept the run rate ticketing over with the big hitting Jarrod Griffith (3 runs) coming in the last over and making some handy runs off the last ball. Hunter Gilkes and Jarrod Griffith (1 wicket) opened the bowling with a tight spell not allowing St Benedict’s to get off to a good start. Campbell Bramley and Daniel Moodley continued to apply the pressure bowling on a good length and just outside the off stump. After a loosener at the start of the over, Lachlan Almond found an edge the next ball, breaking up the batting partnership and giving St John's our first victory of the day.            

 

After tasting victory the boys were keen for another win against Magdalene. Hunter Giles smashed the opening ball of the first over but was unfortunately caught at deep square leg, bringing Matthew Page to the crease. In a powerful display of batting prowess both Thomas Hodgkins (35 runs) and Matthew (28 runs) smashed the bowlers all over the park. Coming into the last over it was decided to retire both batters and bring on the bash brothers (Campbell and Cooper Bramley) to make some quick runs in the final over. In our best bowling and fielding display for the day we were able to get  Magdalene all out before reaching our score. 

 

Needing to win the last game to give us a chance to finish on top of our pool, we came up against the much fancied Edmund Rice. We won the toss and decided to bat first. Lachlan Almond (10 runs) and Christian Page (11 runs) failed to capitalise on good starts against a very impressive bowling lineup. The big hitting Thomas Hodgkins (7 runs) fell to a lolly of a delivery leaving Matthew Page stranded on 4 runs. Setting our smallest target of the day, Cooper Bramley set a strong bowling line up and held ERC for the first few overs before we eventually broke and they were able to achieve our target with an over to spare. 

 

We played off against Corpus Christi for 5th and 6th place. Despite some great bowling from Hunter Gilkes (two wickets) and an impressive batting performance from Daniel Moodley (30 not out) we were unable to finish the day on a high note. 

Special thanks for the parent and grandparent support on the day with scoring and umpiring.  

 

Mr Aidan Leishman

Teacher