Day: 26 Sep 2022

Sport Results

On Saturday, 24 September, Union High School’s 𝗨/𝟭𝟯𝗔 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 hosted Muir College for a 40-over encounter.

Union lost the toss and was sent to bowl first. Muir’s batsmen got off to a very decent start, managing a run-rate of about 10 an over for the better part of their innings. Union’s bowlers, however, managed to bring that down by taking wickets at regular intervals, resulting in Muir making a total of 155.

Union’s best bowlers were 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 (2 wickets), 𝗢𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘅𝘁𝗼𝗻 (2 wickets) and 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻-𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 (3 wickets).

The Union side then went in to bat, but got off to a bad start, losing their top order with only 24 runs on the board.

𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 managed to build a few partnerships, but the Union side eventually fell short by 43 runs with 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆 being the best batsman, scoring 50 not out.

𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘶𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘯

Sport Results

This past Saturday, 24 September, Union had a strong team of 14 𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗦 participating in the second meet of the season in Gqeberha.

𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 ‘𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴’ 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

The great thing about biathlon is that the participants may run with several different age groups, but it is their OWN time that is important, not winning or losing a particular race. This first event allowed Union’s biathlon team to get both a running and swimming time on record in order for them to now try and beat that time at every following event.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 “𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢” 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙, with great manners and sportsmanship, and fantastic running results, most notably Luvela Makaula and Qhama Solomon who ran fantastic times to take first and second place respectively in the u/15 boys running category.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 and mention must be made of Miley Burger and Samantha Gilfillian who, for the first time, had to run 800m – a hard sprint twice around the track!

The swimming was held at Brylin – Independent Learning Centre’s 50m indoor pool, and our athletes did very well considering they haven’t been able to train throughout the winter. They held their own, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, with two of our athletes improving on their past times (Ben and Taylor)!

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀:

𝘂/𝟭𝟭 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗦:

• 1st Taylor Jacobs

• 3rd Allison Gilfillian

𝘂/𝟭𝟯 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗦:

• 5th Samantha Gilfillian

• 8th Miley Burger

• 10th Angelique Kyanda-Kaboza

𝘂/𝟭𝟱 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦:

• 7th Luvela Makaula

• 8th Qhama Solomon

• 9th Lulonke Vumazonke

• 10th Asakula Nkomo

𝘂/𝟭𝟱 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗦:

• 8th Onika Jantjies

𝘂/𝟭𝟳 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦:

• 3rd Ben Lemke

• 8th Sophephela Vimbi

• 9th Connor Horn

𝘂/𝟭𝟳 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗦:

• 6th Misha Newton

• 8th Mecoli Vorster

• 9th Rebecca Copeman