Rugby Report
Results from 30 July vs Riverview and TAS
| Team | Opponent | Result | Score | Top Scorer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Grammar | Win | 76-63 | Tom Graetz 23 |
| 2nds | Grammar | Win | 57-27 | Ben Barry, Nick Wendt, James Boyd, Nick Riley 9 |
| 3rds | Grammar | Loss | 38-44 | Owen Chang 11 |
| 4ths | Grammar | Win | 21-14 | Oli Arnold 14 |
| 5ths | Grammar | Win | 24-18 | Sam Widdis 8 |
| 6ths | Grammar | Win | 28-25 | Joel Wyborn 12 |
| 7ths | Grammar | Win | 39-11 | Luke Goddard 13 |
| 8ths | Grammar | Tie | 32-32 | John Perdikaris 11 |
| 9ths | Grammar | Win | 24-18 | Fergus Abbott 8 |
| 10ths | Grammar | Win | 42-15 | Alex Hosking 8 |
| 11ths | Grammar | Win | 30-4 | Henry Collins 8 |
| 12ths | Knox | Win | 26-17 | Tom Ellis 8 |
| 13ths | Knox | Win | 28-16 | Hugh Gluskie 14 |
| 14ths | Waverley | Loss | 23-48 | Jamie D’Arcy and Adam Urwin 6 |
| 16A | Grammar | Win | 37-30 | Mitchell Dettman 9 |
| 16B | Grammar | Win | 33-14 | Eric Qiao 9 |
| 16C | Grammar | Win | 31-23 | Bede Clout 8 |
| 16D | Grammar | Win | 27-18 | Tom Houstone 11 |
| 16E | Grammar | Win | 44-24 | Sam Reason 10 |
| 16F | Grammar | Win | 24-14 | Alfie Sheridan 8 |
| 16G | Grammar | Win | 32-5 | Austin Petty 7 |
| 16H | Grammar | Win | 42-4 | Harry Siebold 20 |
| 15A | Grammar | Loss | 26-28 AET | Hugo Flatman 10 |
| 15B | Grammar | Win | 35-20 | Blake Lynton 7 |
| 15C | Grammar | Win | 24-15 | Steven Cominakis 4 |
| 15D | Grammar | Win | 35-21 | Oliver Piper and Mack Fortune 8 |
| 15E | Grammar | Win | 25-23 | Ben Alty 6 |
| 15F | Grammar | Win | 26-14 | Phoenix Thompson 10 |
| 15G | Grammar | Loss | 22-24 | Nathan Liu 6 |
| 15H | Grammar | Win | 12-10 | Oscar Dimiropoulos 6 |
| 14A | Grammar | Win | 52-21 | Henry Trueman 19 |
| 14B | Grammar | Win | 23-22 | Euan Milne, Ed Colvin and Geordie Wills 4 |
| 14C | Grammar | Loss | 15-33 | Ted Scott and Dylan Baxter 6 |
| 14D | Grammar | Loss | 22-24 | Wilson Koch 10 |
| 14E | Grammar | Loss | 22-32 | Michael Mitakos 6 |
| 14F | Grammar | Win | 26-10 | Brandon Liu 10 |
| 14G | Grammar | Win | 17-11 | Leo Ryan 8 |
| 14H | Grammar | Loss | 2-16 | Jet Seeto 2 |
A glorious Sydney winter day awaited our teams last week for the final home game at Northbridge Campus for the season.
The day was an especially poignant one given it was the designated ‘Old Boys Day’ and the very colourful ‘Cozzies for Scozzi’ awareness and fundraising drive. Boys, staff, parents and Old Boys all donned colourful board shorts to raise awareness of the spinal injury Mr Nigel Scozzi suffered in March this year. Additionally, all Football, Rugby, AFL, Cross Country and Taekwondo Teams wore the SLS colours of red and yellow whilst playing their matches. Thank you to Ms Barb Doran and all the coaches and boys who helped make this possible. Ms Doran continues to lead the charge in galvanising support for the Scozzi family and setting challenges for the community – let’s continue to meet these.
Rounds against Riverview are always hard-fought contests and Saturday was no different. Across the grades, honours were shared – an appropriate outcome given the evenness of many sides.
Our Third XV went into Round Six of their Competition against The Armidale School First XV. Shore signalled its intent with a wonderful first try, spreading the ball wide to the hard finishing Tim Bannister for a great team try. The Third XV then kept the pressure and momentum building – some hard running from the forward pack and creative backline play saw a big win registered.
The Second XV match was a thrilling game of schoolboy Rugby. Riverview jumped out to a strong lead by scoring two tries but the Shore Team fought back and hit the front by a point. Both sides played courageous Rugby and unfortunately, bad luck was on Shore’s side at the very end when a penalty was awarded to Riverview at the final whistle, to give them the match. Both sides played tremendous Rugby.
The First XV match was another thrilling encounter with Shore achieving its first Competition Round win for some years. Marshall Le Maitre was celebrating his 16th birthday and looked ready for the contest!
The game was back and forth, with Shore scoring first through Jackson Stiel after he received a nice short ball. Riverview then tied it up before Tom Klem scored a classy try skipping around two defenders. Once again, Riverview hit back to even the score, before a brilliant Daimon Pin drop goal from 40m gave Shore the lead by three points on half time.
In the second half, Shore attacked the blindside with a great run from Henry Murray to get them in a good position. Jacko once again burrowed over and Shore led by 10. Another clever blindside play saw Leo Bassingthwaighte make a break and send through an excellent grubber for Tom Klem to pounce on. It was now 29-12 and the crowd dared to dream. Riverview were having none of it though and scored twice to make the difference 10.
Shore then received a penalty from 40m out and the ice cool Joe Hutton struck a goal to take it to 32-22. Joe kicked well all day. Again, Riverview were having none of it and scored under the posts to make it 32-29. Could the team hang on? Thankfully … yes. Some desperate defence at the end kept Riverview from any more attacking raids and victory was achieved.
Congratulations to all the Shore and Riverview players in this game. It is no wonder why so many people enjoy watching schoolboy Rugby. The passion and skill on display from both sides brought credit to the Shore and Riverview coaches and supporters.
Mr D. L. Mason-Jones
MIC, Rugby
