Water Polo Match Reports
Week 5 Term 1 20024
Firsts
The Firsts continued their campaign to make the final of the Combined Competition with a must win (semi-final) game against powerhouse Water Polo school, Newington College (NC). The boys had a rocky start, with NC scoring an extra man goal within the first minute of the game. However, this helped re-focus the team, and Anderton Stock scored a great goal to even the score to 1-1 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter saw the team ease into the game with three goals; Hamish Walls with a quality top corner extra man goal, Jett Semmens with a 5 metre penalty, and George Kennedy scored the lob of the season to take Shore to 5-4 going into halftime. The team was focused and playing consistently well as a team at this point. Charlie Lewcock was dominating in offence and scored a cracking goal in the third quarter. The score was 5-4 going into the final quarter, and it was anyone’s game. Alex Woolfe was unstoppable in goals, and Koby Smith’s defence on Newington’s best player (the Captain of the U18s Australian Water Polo team) proved to be the X factor that we needed.
The final quarter saw Shore pull away with two dominant goals from Anderton Stock and another goal by Jett Semmens. Newington continued to play their best until the final minutes by scoring two goals in the last few minutes of the game. The end result was a 8-6 win to Shore. This is the first time in Shore’s School history that we have won a competition game against Newington. The win has secured Shore into the grand final of the Combined Competition against Knox this Saturday.
Ms Z Dowdell
Firsts Coach
16B’s
The Shore 16B’s enjoyed the week at training leading into their re-match against NC. Earlier in the season, the score was 7-6 to Shore. The boys had enormous motivation after being victorious in the past 11 games, and with 147 goals for and only 44 goals against, we were quietly confident 12 from 12 was coming our way.
Shore started strong, and NC missed some early chances. At the other end of the pool, Ethan Ng was busy scoring 2 goals, and Richie Lotz pushed a thundering shot past the goalie to make it 3-0 to Shore at quarter time. In the second quarter, NC hit back first a couple of goals and nearly squared up, but brilliant defence by Ashton Turner-Smith and Hamish Warden, along with Henry Frape in goals, shut down several NC chances.
Ethan Ng and Richie Lotz both scored and added one each to their tally up front to have Shore in front 5-2 at halftime. Our goal here was to close the game out early and make it as hard as possible for NC to stage any sort of comeback. Harry Clough scored a spectacular lob goal, which the crowd agreed was one of the goals of the season and then scored another to ensure the first one was not a fluke. The most impressive display was the overall defence of the team that ensured NC did not score during the third. 8-2 up and one quarter to go, Shore pushed a few more in the back of the net with Ashton Turner-Smith scoring one, and Lachie Hughes finally broke free of his wrestle up front to snag a goal to ensure a 10-3 win. The 16B’s capping off a 12 win undefeated season.
Mr S O’Kane
16B’s Coach
Results from Saturday 2 March 2024
| Team | Opponent | Result | Score | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firsts | Newington | Win | 8-6 | Jett Semmens 2, Charlie Lewcock, Anderton Stock 3, Hamish Walls, George Kennedy |
| Seconds | St Aloysius | Win | 17-0 | Charlie Hawkins, Titus Limantono, Louis Cathles 3, Harry Hattersley 2, Jonnie Pridmore 3, Sam Hassall, Angus Beggs 2, Chase Harvey 4 |
| Thirds | Newington | Loss | 7-10 | Harry Bridgen 2, Hudson Brooks 2, Thomas Wensley, Daniel Lord 2 |
| Fourths | Newington | Loss | 3-9 | Fin Shadforth, Charlie Armati, Xavier Aloisio |
| 16A | Newington | Loss | 6-11 | Harry Brunker 3, Thomas Larcombe, Hugo Stewart, Michael Walker |
| 16B | Newington | Win | 10-3 | Harry Clough 2, Lachie Hughes, Ethan Ng 3, Richie Lotz 3, Ashton Turner-Smith |
| 15A | Newington | Win | 5-4 | Hamilton Ward 3, Max Hughes, Sinclair Lyne |
| 15B | Newington | Win | 9-8 | Ben Gordon 3, Sam Chan 3, Aryan Jata, Alex Ryan 2 |
| 14B | Newington | Win | 9-3 | Toby Hill, Riley Rowland-Smith, Will Pellow 2, Oscar Chang 2, Louis Wang 2, Sam Bull |
| 13A | Newington | Loss | 6-7 | Tim Lloyd 2, Orlando Stewart 4 |
| 13B | Newington | Loss | 2-10 | Xavier Spencer, Joshua Hugo |
Top image: Seconds with a huge win over Aloys
Miss Z Dowdell
MIC Water Polo