Sport Results

Interhouse Cross-Country

As a school, Union endeavours to be successful in sport on both a local, provincial and national level.

It is events, however, like Monday afternoon’s interhouse cross-country, which epitomises the true ethos of sport at Union.

Determination, dedication and a real sense of school spirit were on display with hundreds of learners competing for their house.

This time it was Arnott House who won, but every learner who took part should be recognised for the effort and willingness to push themselves and improve.

They did themselves, their house and school proud.

The winners in each respective age group are as follows:

Overall results:
Arnott: 98 points (1st)
Daly: 78 Points (2nd)

Sport Results

Snr Cricket Results vs Daniel Pienaar

UHS take on DP in CSA T20 quarter-finals

On Saturday, 15 February, Union High School’s 1st XI travelled to Uitenhage to play against the Daniël Pienaar Technical High School in the quarter-finals of the CSA T20 competition.

Daniël Pienaar won the toss and elected to bat first.

Union’s bowlers struggled to settle with consistent line and lengths, which allowed the Daniël Pienaar players to score freely.

Union, however, managed to finally tighten things up and started taking regular wickets, slowing the run rate down and eventually restricting Daniël Pienaar to 96 in their allotted 20 overs after them having scored 61 in their first 10 overs.

Union’s best bowlers were Brett Amsterdam (3 for 6 in 4 overs), Jarrod Naudé (2 for 17 in 4 overs) and Josh Calitz (2 for 13 in 2 overs).

Union then went in to bat and soon found themselves standing at 19 for 4.

After being in a tough position, the innings continued in a stop-start manner with the Union batsmen struggling to get going.

Thanks to some valiant efforts by the middle to lower-order batsmen, Union managed to get back in the game and soon found themselves in a position where they could possibly win the game.

Unfortunately, it was a little too late and Union ended up 6 runs short of their target.

Union’s best batsmen were James Pringle (24), Sisipho Arnols (14) and Josh Calitz (14).

Union lost the match by 6 runs.

• Union’s 2nd XI also faced Daniël Pienaar on Saturday.

Daniël Pienaar won the toss and elected to bat. They were bowled out for 143 in the 25th over.

Union’s best bowlers were Daniel Nell (3 for 21) and Hlakaniphe Skepe (3 for 22).

Union then had good opening partnerships of 56 and 54.

Union’s top scorers were Rogan Odendaal (56), Hlakaniphe Skepe (21), Matthew Hesselink (14) and Dylan Kriel (19 not out).

Union passed Daniël Pienaar’s score in the 34th over to win the match by 3 wickets.

Athletics, Sport Results

Athletics – Sarah Baartman District Championship

Congratulations Erin and Mack!

Union High School had two athletes competing at the Sarah Baartman District Championships at Port Elizabeth’s Westbourne Oval on Friday, 14 February.

Union’s athletes did very well against stiff competition at this prestigious event, with Mack Rubidge placing first in the Boys u/19 Shot Put event with a distance of 11.47m and achieving a new personal best in the Boys u/19 High Jump event with a height of 1.7m cleared.

Erin Mitchell came in second in the Girls u/17 High Jump with a new Personal Best of 1.5m.

 

 

Sport Results

Jnr Cricket Results vs Muir

U/13s and U/11s victorious against Muir

On Saturday, 15 February, Union’s u/13A and u/11A cricketers travelled to Uitenhage to compete against Muir College.

• The u/13s put together a stellar performance during their encounter.

Muir won the toss and elected to bat. Exceptional bowling by Union, however, made scoring impossible and Union managed to bowl Muir out for 48 after 21.4 overs.

Union’s motivated batsmen then made light work of the target and managed to chase down Muir’s score in 10.4 overs winning by 7 wickets in the end.

• In the u/11A team’s match, Union won the toss and elected to bat first.

The boys got off to a very good start and managed to continue the momentum throughout the game.

Union’s batsmen put a score of 167 on the board in their allotted 30 overs. The team’s best batsmen were Callum Jacobs (59) and Owen Paxton (37).

Union’s bowling innings then got off to a slow start, with the boys only starting to claim wickets after the 10th over.

They still, however, managed to bowl out Muir for 97 runs in the 30th over of the innings.

Union’s best u/11 bowlers were Owen Paxton with 3 wickets and James Stocks with 3 wickets as well.

Union won the game by 70 runs.

Sport Results

Chess Trials

The first round of the trials to select the Chris Hani District’s chess team for 2020 was held on Monday afternoon, 10 February.

This set of matches saw 21 schools participating and took the format of an individual Swiss Open chess tournament.

110 entrants battled it out in the Union High School hall in Graaff-Reinet, while a further 80 players pitted their skills against one another at Marlow Agricultural High School in Cradock.

The chess tournament was keenly contested by players from start to finish and saw a wave of promising young talent emerge.

(The second round of the trials will be held in March and the third soon thereafter, after which the the top players will be invited to a closed tournament in August, where the final selection will be made for the team that will represent the district at the South African Junior Chess Championship to be held in Johannesburg in early January 2021.

Union extends its thanks to all those who assisted in making the tournament a success – the section controllers, arbiters and all those who assisted in the many smalls tasks on the day.

Sport Results, Swimming

Interhouse Gala Results

On Tuesday afternoon, 11 February, the Union High School pool witnessed a very exciting Interhouse Swimming Gala that contained an abundance of enthusiasm, physical effort and polished swimming strokes.

This was the first gala hosted by Union in the school’s swimming pool since it was revamped last year and the Houses rallied their swimmers for this long-standing friendly competition between Daly and Arnott.

While all the races were closely contested, a dedicated team of timekeepers stood poised with their stopwatches at one end of the pool, with house supporters and teams cheering enthusiastically from the sides.

As ever, the relays generated huge excitement – speed and lots of noise were evident as every position and point became vital towards the overall scores.

In the end there could only be one winner and it was Arnott House! They beat Daly House to the title with a strong 563 points in total compared to Daly House’s 389 points.

Congratulations Team Arnott!

A big well done goes to all those who swam!

Sport Results

Jnr Tennis vs Cradock

On Monday afternoon, 10 February, Union’s Top 6 junior boys and girls tennis players travelled to Cradock for what turned out to be a very enjoyable afternoon of tennis against Cradock Primary School.

Matthew Paxton and Peter-Daniel Clegg were certainly Union’s top performers, winning their singles as well as their doubles matches on the day.

Tara Ferreira, Grace Kemp and Mecoli Vorster are also to be congratulated on winning their singles.

Rugby, Sport Results

Coaches Prep for 2020 Rugby Season

This past weekend, nine dedicated members of the Union Schools’ staff attended a World Rugby Level 2 coaching course.

The course was presented by Mr Anthony Heugh (World Rugby Coaching Educator) and was facilitated at Union High School over the course of two days.

The course was aimed at enhancing the participants’ coaching capability and technical knowledge.

The weekend’s activities included board sessions, theory work, video analysis and practical sessions with the school’s 1st XV squad.

The coaches will complete the second part of the course in May, the successful completion of which will see them earn their World Rugby Level 2 qualification.

Sport Results, Tennis

EP Selection – Tennis

Congratulations to Tara Ferreira, Matthew Paxton and Caytah-Leigh Koeberg who were recently selected to represent the Eastern Cape at the upcoming Inter-Provincial Primary and High Schools national tennis tournament to be held from 9 to 12 April.

These players were selected during trials played in January.

Tara will represent the province as part of their Girls u/13 team, Caytah-Leigh will be playing for the Girls u/15 team and Matthew will be playing for the Eastern Cape Aloes Boys u/13 team.

Union High School is proud of the depth of our tennis talent and congratulate our players on the honour of representing the Eastern Cape. Provincial selection is the result of long hours on the tennis court practising and is recognition of their talent and passion for the sport.