The Winter Sports Season is coming to an end with competition finals having taken place. Good luck to our Roncalli College teams who are competing in their respective sports codes during Winter Tournament Week. Here are some highlights from recent finals results for the season.

WINTER TOURNAMENT WEEK

Roncalli have 9 sports teams representing the College during Winter Tournament Week. We wish all players, coaches, managers, parents and supporters all the best at their respective tournaments, safe travels and we look forward to following your results:

• Senior Premier Girls Basketball - Team Southern Secondary Schools Cup: Ashburton

• Junior A Girls Basketball Team - Zone 4 Girls: Timaru

• Junior B Girls Basketball Team - Zone 4 Girls: Timaru

• Girls 1st XI Football Team - Lotto Sportswear Tournament: Dunedin

• Boys 1st XI Football Team - Linwood Tournament: Invercargill

• Girls 1st XI Hockey Team - Jenny McDonald Cup: Gore

• Boys 1st XI Hockey Team - Coaches Cup: Greymouth

• Senior A Netball Team - SISS Netball Tournament: Dunedin

• Under 15 Boys Rugby Team - Rural Livestock Co Educational Secondary Schools U15 Tournament: Queenstown
  

Winter Sports Recent Finals:

Basketball

Junior Premier Boys: Competed in a very close exciting final against TBHS, Roncalli were winners in the end with the game coming down to a few points and it was won in the last 4 seconds 45 - 43.

Senior Premier Boys: Finished Runners up to TBHS going down 83-47

Hockey

Men’s Div 2: Roncalli 1st XI Boys v Excelsior -runners up by score of 6-3

Women’s Div 2: Roncalli 1st XI v Cambridge - runners up by a score of 2-1

During the Hockey South Canterbury Prize Giving the Roncalli Girls 2nd XI won the sportsmanship award chosen by the umpires group (this was across all the grades)

The Roncalli Girls 1st XI won the seasons second division round robin trophy - the last time Roncalli won this was in 1996. Great work girls!

Netball

Roncalli 9A v Geraldine High Junior A ~ Winners by 41-31

Roncalli 9A2 v Craighead 10B ~ Winners by 23-20

Roncalli B v Waimate Dev ~ finished 4th place going down by 41-23

Girls Football

(Women’s Division 1 competition FInal). Roncalli vs West End Roncalli Girls finished Runners Up going down 2-0.

CYCLING

Good luck to Jaxson Whyte who is competing this weekend at the Southern Tour 2018 in Blenheim, hosted by Cuddon Cycling Marlborough.

Saturday 1st September stage 1 - Time Trial and stage 2 - Criterium.

Sunday 2nd September stage 3 - Hill Climb and stage 4 - Road Race.

TABLE TENNIS 

Weekly Wednesday Night Competition

The Secondary Schools Inter-School Table Tennis Competition has come to an end after being held through term two and was then extended into term three, two Roncalli teams competed.

The Roncalli boys team of Jamie Fitzgerald and Jack Thomson finished 2nd overall and the girls team of Alice Gibson and Karen Beshara were 3rd in the girls grade. An Individual tournament was run on 8th August which was the final night of competition, Jamie placed 2nd in the boys grade.

Congratulations to Jamie Fitzgerald who is representing South Canterbury in the Under 18 men's grade at the New Zealand Open Individual Table Tennis Championships in Tauranga 8th - 13th October.

Jayden Walker - Running Achievements

Over the last couple of months Jayden has been involved in running and has been really getting into it. His time and effort he has put into his training has shown as in his first race which was the South Island 7k half marathon held at Lakewood in which he was competing the the junior men’s category he placed first. This was against ages 13-19 year olds so it was a real test, as well as this he participated in the south Canterbury Duathlon run by the pacers placing second whilst representing the College. 

He will be participating in another South Canterbury Duathlon run by the pacers in the coming weeks so we wish him the best of luck. Congratulations Jayden on your achievements and we wish you the best of luck with your running.