Around The Grounds
MLC19 Netball
Our season wrapped up last weekend. While it wasn’t our strongest – finishing with just one win – what truly matters is what we’ve learned from the losses. We’ve grown as a team, and we’ll carry those lessons forward, applying them in future games as we continue to develop our skills.
A highlight was our final match. It was our highest-scoring game of the season, ending 44–34. Although we didn’t come away with a win, every player gave their absolute best in both attack and defence. The team worked tirelessly from start to finish, and the energy on court was incredible.
Lastly, a huge thank you to our amazing coach, Ali Mattick, for your guidance and support. And a special thanks to Leonie, who coached us in our final game – your advice and encouragement will stick with us as we come back stronger next year!
– Averie Ling (Year 6)
MLC03 Basketball
We have been working hard this year. In our second game this term, we won our first game of the year with an impressive 32–10! Last week, we finished with another victory, 30–20! Every member of our team has fought their hardest in every game, supporting each other even during close losses. They put in their best effort until the timer hit zero, running from one end of the court to the other, chasing down and reclaiming the ball at every opportunity. Our team always strives for a win, even when some of our players are helping our other teams. We will continue to give our all in the coming weeks! MLC on 3! 1, 2, 3 MLC!
– Megan Udayavarman (Year 7)
IPSHA Touch Football
After three weeks of rained-out rounds, the MLC01 Touch Football team finally played their debut match, and made it count with a convincing 5–3 win over Ascham. The girls from Year 3–Year 6 put into practice the skills they had been building at training, holding a solid defensive line, taking the touch to make up ground, and keeping up a creative attacking game that outplayed their opponents.
For many players, it was their very first touch football match, making the growth shown over just four weeks particularly impressive. Victoria Wai (Year 6) scored four tries and Vivienne Woon (Year 6) added another, but the real highlight was the teamwork and effort shown across the field. A fantastic, and undefeated start to the season!
‘Looking forward to our next match. Let’s go MLC!’
– Emma Cook (Year 6)
MLC02 Hockey
The game was scheduled for 9am on our own Sports field and the weather was significantly better than the previous games being nice and sunny rather than the usual torrential downpour and things were slightly tense because they were the only school we lost to last term so we expected them to go hard like in the previous term but we overstated it majorly and scored two goals in the first ten minutes of the games with ease. By halftime we had five goals and plenty of high spirits. Although everything was working out for us particularly after a super close goal we were advised by a ref that we should start playing ‘mercy rules’ as the other team was at a disadvantage with no subs or goals and in order to even this out our defence was swapped with our strikers which was especially funny when they achieved a short corner and had no idea what to do but overall in the end it was a successful game with us winning by 7-0.
– Margot Bell (Year 8)
MLC01 Hockey
On Saturday 16 August, MLC School played Monte at home. We started the game strongly, with Chiara scoring the first goal to put us in the lead. Not long after, Monte scored and the first half ended 1–1.
In the second half, we came out more determined. Chiara scored again to give us back the lead, and then Abbey added another goal to make it 3–1. We kept up the pressure until the end and defended well so Monte couldn’t score again.
The final score was MLC School 3 – 1 Monte, with Chiara scoring two goals and Abbey scoring one. It was a great team effort and a strong win at home.
– Emily Hutchins (Year 10)
MLC03 Hockey
On Saturday 16 August, MLC03 played against Ravenswood at the MLC School Sports field. The game ended in a 1–1 tie. In the first half no one scored, but we made some strong tackles and kept the ball in our half. In the second half, Addi scored for MLC School with a direct shot, and although we continued to press for another goal, Ravenswood managed to score as well, resulting in a 1–1 final score. I think that next week we could work on marking up and calling the ball in the next game.
– Eloise Martins do Vale (Year 9)