This week's update contains news and successes in cricket, kayaking, surf-life saving, basketball and the upcoming swimming and touch competitions.

Cricket

• The 1st XI traditional game against Silverstream earlier this week did not get off to a good start when they sent us into bat and we only managed 149 runs.  Silverstream went onto score 200 taking a 51 run lead.  Jackson Hemingway 4/48 and Matt Munro 4/42 were the leading wicket takers for St Bede’s.  Batting second we were dismissed for a disappointing 119 runs.  Will Aynsley 38 was the leading run scorer.  Silverstream did not take long to score the 69 runs to win. The 1st XI now travel to Wellington with the Colts team to take on St Pat’s town this Sunday.  We wish them well.

• NZCT – The Regional Final saw our Year 9A team play Christchurch Boys’ High School at Mainpower Oval yesterday.  Boys High were put into bat and were all out for 152. Top bowlers were Elliott Caddick 3/12, James McSweeney 2/17, and Reuben Stoffers 2/24.  Matthew Boyle and James McSweeney got the boys off to an excellent start scoring 64 and 31 respectively.  Some good decision making by George Baker and Sam Kreft saw them steady the ship when they were six wickets down. George was caught with 3 runs required to win, Walter Brown came in and blocked the next 3 ball which saw Sam hit the winning runs, and ended with 24.  This win see the team go onto the National finals in Palmerston North at the end of March, which is the first time in 10 years since we have achieved this.

• Canterbury Metro Cricket Awards were held on last Friday night and St Bede's College did very well at them with Matthew Boyle taking out the Year 9 individual batting award with 613 runs with an average of 153.  Mason Cumming took out the Bowling with 16 wickets for an average of 4.9.  Liam Campbell ex 1st XI 2016 took out the 1st XI individual batting award scoring 537 runs at an average of 38 runs.

As you can see cricket is in very good heart here at St Bede's College and I would just like to thank all the parents that help make this possible, and your help is really appreciated by all here at the College.

Touch

The Super Touch team is playing in the Canterbury Championships this weekend at Sheldon Park and we wish them all the best for this tournament.

Swimming

The St Bede's College swimming championship races will be held this Thursday, 2 March.  Warm up will take place at lunchtime with races starting at period 4 (1.25pm).  From this a team will be chosen to represent the College at Canterbury School Champs.

Golf

James Metzer will play in the South Island stroke play in Dunedin this weekend and wish he the very best of luck. 

Basketball

• The Basketball Club Meeting this coming Monday, 27 February at 7.00pm in the Staffroom.  We would love to be able to form a club this year for the running of Basketball in the College.  If your son plays Basketball you are encouraged to attend this meeting.

• Congratulations to Tom Hughes, Caleb Conyers and Ryan Botica who played in the Canterbury Under 17, 3 on 3 Basketball competition at the weekend and finished second in that competition.  Well done boys.  
  

Surfing Lifesaving

• Congratulations to Kaiden Shaw who has been selected  in the Canterbury Surf Life Saving Team for 2017. Kaiden will compete in the Under 19 team alongside Seb Johnston.

• William Jamieson had an outstanding South Island Surf Lifesaving competition.  William won 6 Gold medals in the Board race, Surf race, Board rescue, Board Relay, Surf race Diamond, and the Board rescues. He also won 2 Silver medals in the Tube rescue and Grand Cameron team even.  William was also awarded the top under 13 male competitor at the South Island Champs.  Well done William a great achievement.

Kayaking

Congratulations to Louis Wylaars who competed at the National Kayak Champs at Lake Karapiro where he won four Gold medals in the Under 14 K2 200m, K4 200m, K2 500m and K4 500m.  Louis also won bronze in the Under 14 K1 5 km, Under 16 K4 200m and the K4 500m.  Well done Louis.