SAINTS’ WEEKLY SPORTS AND CULTURE

Vol 17 No 30 19th-25th September 2017 sports@stgeorges.co.zw Edited by Mr A H Macdonald

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Cricket Mid week matches vs Clifton School from Durban

RSA 1. U14A Clifton 129-7 (T Chisango 2-25 M Raja 2-19) St George’s 73 all out (M Garande 32 T Lusiyano 16) Result : Lost by 56 runs 2. 1st XI Clifton 174-7 (H Patel 4-23 M Came 2-28) St George’s 135 all out (P Mugore 26 G Chirawu 22) Result : Lost 39 runs Matches vs Churchill (All matches T/20) 1. U14A St George’s 167-4 (T Lusiyano 47 M Garande 36* M Gwese 23) Churchill 99-6 (T Majid 1-9 D Myers 1-25 D Zambuko 1-7) Result : Won by 68 runs 2. U14B St George’s 96-5 (P Chikukwa 41) Churchill 94-8 (S Chiropa 2-9 T Mutimukuru 2-19) Result : Won by 2 wickets 3. U15A St George’s 131-8 (E Bawa 54) Churchill 107-6 (R Adams 2-20 Chikopa 2-20) Result : Won by 24 runs 4. U15B Churchill 55 all out (G Munyonga 5-8) St George’s 56-4 Result : Won by 6 wickets 5. U16A Churchill 83 all out (J Mugabe 3-11 T Mugomba 2-10 I Vokoto 2-9 T Kadyautumbe 2-11) St George’s 84-4 (T Bopoto 27 R Nyajeka 17) Result : Won by 6 wickets 6. U16B St George’s 75 all out Churchill 76-8 (J Mudiwa 4-19 T Gavaza 3-17 A Mutendera 2-21) Result : Lost by 2 wickets

St John’s ‘Ram slam’ T/20 Tournament 1. Pool match 1st XI vs Prince Edward P.E 149-5 (D Myers 2-33) St George’s 153-4 (L Roche 53* K Tigere 37* B Chamboko 23) Result : Won by 6 wickets 2. 2nd XI St George’s 192-2 (J Siya 1-5 D Johnson-Brickhill 51) Churchill 18 all out (J Siya 3-5 A Patel 2-0 K Jha 2-0) (M Khumbula 2-5) Result : Won by 174 runs 3. Pool match vs Falcon College St George’s 210-6 (P Mugore 85 D Myers 54 B Chamboko 21 G Chirawu 20) Falcon 187-6 (K Tigere 2-21 D Myers 2-48) Result : Won by 23 runs 4. Pool match vs Clifton (RSA) Clifton 151-8 (L Roche 3-20 D Myers 2-19) St George’s 98 all out (D Myers 27) Result : Lost by 53 runs 5. Semi-final match vs St Andrew’s College (Bloemfontein RSA) St George’s 61 all out (M Came 16*) St Andrew’s 62-1 Result : Lost by 9 wickets

Athletics Congratulations to T Yosa who has been chosen to attend the S.A.C.S.S.A Invitational National Athletics Championships in Sa-solburg, South Africa from the 29th to 30th September. He will compete in the 100m, 200m and 400m events. Good luck to him.

U17 National Rugby 7’s Congratulations are due to T Musakasa who has been chosen for the Zimbabwe U17 Rubgy 7’s team to play in a Tournament in Kimberley, South Africa from Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th Sep-tember. However, due to circumstances beyond the control of the ZRU, the designated sponsor has been now unable to fund the team to travel to South Africa. Well done and hard luck.

Karate - Taekwondo Style Grading Exercise

Congratulations to the following who have been awarded and pre-sented with a 9th (GUP) Grade Certificate which qualifies them for a white belt : S Mashaya T Marowa J Dondo T Mondo M Hrkalovich I Ncube T Musasiwa Well done!

MUN Conference

Last Tuesday, the St George’s College Model United Nations (MUN) Society participated in a conference hosted by St John’s College. There were 12 schools in attendance and 20 countries represented. Each delegation presented speeches for or against the involvement of the United Nation (UN) in their designated country. This was followed by a session focused on recent UN involvement in Yemen. Delegates presented and debated clauses drafted for a resolution aiming to resolve the Yemen crisis. Our delegates left the event with a greater awareness of challenges faced by the UN and its current relevance and effectiveness.

Cricket

Unconvincing win for U15A

Saints batted first against Churchill in a T20 game last Saturday but too many batsmen gave their wickets away after making promising starts as the team strug-gled to a disappointing 131 for 7 in their 20 overs. Only Bawa with 54 could claim to have batted with any re-sponsibility. Churchill's bowling was good but not spe-cial.

Saint's bowling performance was much improved over the previous week and the opposition batsmen were easily contained. Adams and Chikopa both picked up 2 wickets for 20 runs as Churchill stuttered to 107 for 6 in 20 overs.

The final result a win by 24 runs.

P d'Hotman

TENNIS ST GEORGE’S V HELLENIC ACADEMY

U14 The team played much better tennis and emerged the winners in this encounter. We took three of the four doubles and five of the eight sin-gles matches. The second couple of N Senzanje and C Mapenzauswa and the fourth couple of O Chinyanga and S Baker had comfortable wins. They also cruised past their opponents in the singles. Final result: St George’s College 8 Hellenic Academy 4

U15 Even though the result went to Hellenic Academy, the team made a better showing. T Samupambadze had a good day in the office winning the doubles with his partner T Mhembere and dispatching his opponent in the singles. There is need for the team players to work hard at achiev-ing physical and mental endurance as well as skills development. Final result: St George’s College 3

Interhouse Squash Results Overall : 1st place - Gardner 24 pts 2nd place - Johanny 17 pts 3rd place - Barthelemy 15 pts 4th place - Hartmann 9 pts NB : There was no U14 age group because two houses could not field any players. This is very disappoint-ing. There were also two no shows which was particularly disappointing as we extended the competi-tion until Wednesday 27th. They were U17 and U18 in Barthelemy. There were some extremely close matches and two draws which made it very exciting. Well done to those who did participate.

Discipline Against Age / Team Result Cricket Warm up T/20 Clifton (SA) 1st XI Lost by 39 runs

U14A Lost by 56 runs

St John’s ‘Ram Slam’ T/20 1st XI

Prince Edward 1st XI Won by 6 wickets

Falcon College 1st XI Won by 23 runs

Clifton (SA) 1st XI Lost by 53 runs

Semi-finals St Andrew’s (SA) 1st XI Lost by 9 wickets

Churchill 2nd XI Won by 174 runs

U16A Won by 6 wickets

U16B Lost by 2 wickets

U15A Won by 24 runs

U15B Won by 6 wickets

U14A Won by 68 runs

U14B Won by 2 wickets

Basketball Peterhouse 1st Team Won 43-36

2nd Team Won 15-5

U16A Won 19-10

U16B Won 14-7

U15A Won 15-10

U15B Lost 7-10

U14A Lost 7-8

U14B Won 8-6

Gateway (Mid week) 1st Team Won 60-13

2nd Team Won 32-14

U16A Won 22-10

U15A Won 20-18

U15B Won 11-9

U14A Won 17-5

U14B Won 3-1

Waterpolo Grant Tilley Tournament at CBC

Falcon 1st Team Lost 3-5

Prince Edward 1st Team Won 14-2

Hellenic 1st Team Won 8-1

CBC 1st Team Drew 4-4 (lost on penalties!)

St John’s College 1st Team Drew 5-5 (lost in penalties!)

Peterhouse 1st Team Won 7-4

St John’s College U16 Lost 3-13

Hellenic U16 Lost 3-11

Lomagundi College U14 Lost 3-7

Peterhouse U14 Won 7-3

Tennis 1st Round of Mim Du Toit vs Falcon 1st Team Won 7-5

Hellenic U15A Lost 3-9

U14A Won 8-4

Table Tennis Mazowe A Team Won 4-3

Boys & Girls Tournament at St George’s

U16 Boys Team Winners U16 Winners

U14 Boys Individual Winners U14 2nd N Fleetwood-Bird

Overall Team Trophy Event All ages 1st Prince Edward 8 pts

2nd St George’s 7 pts

Swimming Friendly Gala at Peterhouse 1st St John’s College 218 pts

2nd Hellenic 179 pts

3rd Peterhouse 171 pts

4th St George’s 159 pts

Archery Tournament at Arundel

1st Archers Access 1114 pts

2nd Hellenic 1096 pts

3rd Peterhouse 1073 pts

4th St George’s 1072 pts

5th Arundel 978 pts

6th Peterhouse Girls 968 pts

Chess Oriel Boys A Team Won 6-0

Ellis Robins Lost 2 1/2 - 3 1/2

Volleyball St John’s 1st Team Won 3-1

2nd Team Won 2-0

U16A Won 2-0

U14A Won 2-0

Peterhouse 1st Team Won 2-0

2nd Team Won 2-0

U16A Won 2-0

U14A Won 2-0

Badminton Queen Elizabeth Girls 1st Team Won 5-1

Library Corner

New Books “The Young Magicians and the Thieves’ Almanac”

by Nick Mohammed

On a London street, four unlikely friends stand before the astonishingly ordinary-looking blue door of the Magic Circle . . . Alex doesn't say much, and once jumped when handed a satsuma, but, wow, is he amazing with a deck of cards. Zack is undoubtedly one of the best pickpockets in the country (but always puts things back). Sophie once convinced her Brown Owl that all the other Brownies were jellyfish thanks to her nifty hypnosis skills - and then never returned. Jonny - who is quite possibly the tallest boy in the universe - mixes science and magic with spectacular consequences (mostly explosions). Join these young magicians as they step inside the world-famous conjuring club in an adventure that may or may not involve the search for a secret book, a set of impossible crimes and . . . oh, yes - a flock of very confused pigeons.

Chichester points 2017 So far (Updated)

Barthelemy Gardner Hartmann Johanny

Cross Country Standards (out of 50)

11.1 11.4 8.9 16.6

Cross Country Finals (out of 50)

10.88 12.9 17.4 8.84

Athletics Standards (out of 75) 13.29 24.9 16.75 20

Pentathlon (out of 15) 3.20 2.6 5.02 4.10

Athletics Final (out of 200) 66.1 45.1 35.1 53.8

Badminton (out of 25) 1.5 11.25 4.6 7.7

Basketball (out of 75) 26.1 17.2 20.9 10.8

Tennis (out of 50) 20.3 15.88 7.4 9.4

Volleyball 5 7.7 9.8 2.5

Drama (out of 25) 2.9 7.2 8.9 5.9

First Aid 5.3 8.6 6.9 4.2

Quiz 4.4 5.5 6.6 8.4

Public Speaking (out of 25)

8.3 5.51 4.5 6.65

Chess 8.35 8.35 2.5 5.6

Hockey (out of 75) 26 6.4 7.2 16.6

Soccer (out of 75) 25.8 11.5 20.6 17

Rugby (out of 75) 28.9 18.75 8.6 18.75

Music Studies 121.1 115.9 134.9 127.8

Swimming Squash 5.4 9.6 3.2 6.8

Golf 9.63 3.9 6.9 5.00

Total to date 403.55 350.14 334.17 350.84

Final position

“Lord of the Flies” Director’s Report By Ms. Kyla Render

I am so proud and so very fortunate to be able to say that this year’s production of “Lord of the Flies” was my first pro-duction at Saint George’s College. Although we got off to a shaky start, dealing with rehearsal and commitment issues; too months and one postponement later the cast and crew really pulled the show together and put on a stellar perfor-mance. As the play was requested by the Upper 6s, the connection to and identification with the script gave us a huge advantage in being able to stage the show so successfully. I would like to thank the cast, crew and their families for their commitment and dedication; especially those of the Form 4s and Lower and Upper 6s, who gave up precious study time and fought to take part. A special thank you also to the staff and students of the College for their patience and support of the production; it is really you that made it such a suc-cess. For what is a show without an audience? Although Drama does not work in quite the same way as Sporting Events, I would like to take this opportunity to nomi-nate some “Men of the Production”. These cast and crew members really went above and beyond to ensure that the pro-duction was as good as it could be, sacrificing hundreds of holiday and study hours between them, special mention needs to be made of:

Zvikomborero Muhau (Cast; Form 2) Steven Sigauke (Cast; Form 2)

Milivoj Hrkalovic (Design, Construction, Crew; Form 3) Carlton Mapundu (Design, Construction, ASM; Upper 6)

Lord Of The Flies Report By Thulani Nzonzo On Wednesday, the 14th of September, 2017, St. George's College held its opening night performance of William Gold-ing's Lord of the Flies and thus begun a successful three day run, ending in rapturous applause and critical acclaim. I think that it is fair to say that the talent of this year's cast surpassed anything that we could have imagined. Overall, each performer put in considerable effort, regardless of whether they had only a minor role in the background, digging a hole on the beach or attempting to lead and maintain sanity and order amongst a group of savages. Munyaradzi Nzenza, Shin-gai Musasiwa, Tadiwa Govere Steven Sigauke and Ryan Mutore deserve special commendation, as it was their first time treading the boards of the College stage, in their roles in the main/supporting cast. The crew, well lead by Stage Manager Anotida Ndachena and Assistant Stage Manager Carlton Mapundu deserve just as much credit for their incredible work behind the scenes; without which we would not have been able to make the show the success that it was. Countless rehearsals, line readings and blocking sessions from the 2nd Term and August holidays not only helped us bring the play to life but allowed us to bond as best as a cast and crew can do during any successful production. Despite various drawbacks throughout the rehearsal period, (including an unfortunate parting with 3 of our actors) the boy's de-termination to do the College and themselves proud pulled us through. And though it goes without saying that no good play can be put on without a great director, the show simply would not have happened without the incredible guidance, dedication and passion of our director, Miss Render. The entire cast and crew is and always will be grateful for the amount of work that she put in, in order to make sure that we put on a show worthy of the school's stage.

St George’s College Boys and Girls Table Tennis Tournament

1) U14 Boys Individual Winners

1st place J Christian Kutama College

2nd place N Fleetwood-Bird St George’s College

3rd place S Ezekiel Kutama College

4th place Gerald Kutama College

5th place K Takunda Kutama College

2) U16 Boys Team Winners - St George’s College

1st place B Sawadya

2nd place T Majena

3rd place T Sampambadze

4th place J Kabambe

5th place N Fleetwood-Bird

3) U18 Boys Team Winners - Prince Edward

1st place L Chafurama

2nd place G Ryan

3rd place F Chocho

4th place T Kampira

5th place S Muriravanhu

4) U18 Girls Individual Winners

Winner 1st place

R Bregger Westridge

Runner-up 2nd place

M Gwafa Westridge

5) U18 Boys Individual Winners (for the Floating Trophy)

Winner 1st place

Shabanie Gateway

Runner-up 2nd place

L Chafurama Prince Edward

6) Overall Winning Team (for the St George’s Floating Trophy)

1st place Prince Edward 8 points

2nd place St George’s 7 points

The Inaugural Table Tennis Tournament This tournament attracted half of the teams billed to participate but nevertheless it sailed through well. Our U16B team players were : S Musariri C Mapenzauswa T Amman C Somase N Senzanje Tino Kambani They beat Gateway and PE and lost to Gateway. They however could not progress to the next round. Our U16A team players were : B Sawadya (c) T Majena N Fleetwood-Bird T Sampambadze They played and beat PE, Mazowe and Gateway in their group games and dispatched Kutama 3-2 in a thrilling final encounter. Our U18 team players were : Toby Kambani M Manuwa T Mautsa G Mhembere T Tambanewako They played and lost both group games to PE and Gateway. A big well done to all the boys who came and played making this tournament a success. Next year we hope to be bigger and sweep all med-als on the table.