Cricket, Sport Results

UHS vs Graeme College

1st XI vs Graeme College

On the Wednesday 30 January Union travelled to Grahamstown to play against Graeme College in a declaration match played over two days. Graeme won the toss and elected to bat first. After 56 overs Graeme declared on 214 for 7 with still 30 min of play left in the day.

Bowling figures:  Brett Amsterdam 3 for 63 in 15 overs;  Lihle, Jayden, Matthew and James Pienaar each took one wicket

This declaration meant that Union had to come in and survive at least 6 overs before the end of play and was wonderful for the boys to experience this type of mini test cricket and get put under a different type of pressure.  The Union batsmen were up to the task and looked forward to the challenge. Unfortunately we lost a wicket in the second over, however for the remainder of the overs James Pringle and Jayden Brotherton saw the onslaught off with ease leaving a sense of confidence going into day two.

Day two dawned with a very gloomy looking day with rain in the air. Despite the weather looking threatening we were able to start on time. James Pringle and Jayden Brotherton carried on where they left off and batted with fantastic patience and application during a very trying time with conditions well suited for bowling. After a well-played 24 run partnership Brett Amsterdam joined James Pringle and on a day with many disruptions being on and off the field due to rain. These two did not let that get the better of them and batted with excellent maturity and kept the scoreboard ticking at a respectable rate.

In the end the weather got the final say and Union finished the day on 60 for 2.

With a match well poised it would have been wonderful to have seen what the outcome would have been had we got the full time of cricket in. This really was an amazing experience for the boys who were exposed to a very different brand of cricket and have taken many positive lessons from the experience.

Batting performance:  James Pringle 29 N/O;  Brett Amsterdam 19 N/O;  Jayden Brotherton 8

The match ended in a draw.

U/15A vs Graeme College

Union High won the toss and elected to bowl first.  Union bowled Graeme out for 89 in their first innings.

Best Bowlers:  Matthew Basson 4 for 11 in 6 overs;  Laythan Carelse 3 for 38 in 9.1 overs;  Daniel Nell 2 for 11 in 6 overs;  Hlaki Skepe 1 for 11 in 7 overs.

Union High replied with 95 all out in their First Innings.

Best Batsman:  Sispho Arnols 62;  Brent Hesselink 12

Union lead by 6 runs.  Graeme College then went in to bat for their second innings.Graeme were 47 for 4 when rain stopped play.

Best Bowlers:  Hlaki Skepe 2 for 12 in 6 overs;  Matthew Basson and Daniel Nell each picked up a wicket.

Union High achieved a winning draw based on their 1st Innings win.

Sport Results

Archery

On Saturday Matthew McNaughton and Daniel McNaughton participated in the NASP QUAGGA OPEN archery competition. 70 archers from as far afield as East-London and Victoria West took part.  Matthew fared extremely well receiving Bronze medals in the 3D and Bull’s eye categories and was also on the podium for the 50/50 3D event.

Our archers look forward to the next event on 16 February in Port Alfred.

Sport Results, Swimming

B-Age Group Gala

On Saturday, 22 Union swimmers travelled to PE to participate in a B-age group gala and produced some excellent results. It was the first time that four of our junior swimmers had taken part in an event of this nature and it was encouraging to see how quickly they settled and delivered some very competent performances.

Well done Mack!

The seniors recorded some incredible times too and although the complete list of results has not yet been posted, we do have confirmation of some.

The following learners achieved a podium finish in one or more of their races:  Mack Rubidge, Elia Railton, Amber Binney, Megan Doyle, Damon Fouche and Drew Dobinson.

Union is very excited to see the return of Mack Rubidge to the team and with good reason. Mack stunned spectators with a clean sweep of comfortable wins for every one of his races and recorded some award winning times in the process.

The rest of the team though, is close on his heels and they are all working hard to put together the requisite times for school awards at the end of this season.

 

Cricket, Sport Results

Snr Cricket Results vs Stirling

Union 1st XI vs Stirling

Over the week end the 1st XI travelled to East London to play against Stirling in a declaration match. However due to rainy weather the match was reduced to a 40 over match.

Stirling won the toss and elected to bat.   It was a day of moments for Union with the ball and in the field. There were moments of brilliance and moments of struggle and unfortunately the latter proved to be prominent on the day and we allowed Stirling to reach a well-played 196 in their 40 overs.

Best bowlers:  Lunga Zantsi 2 for 25 in 8 overs;   Jayden Brotherton 2 for 47 in 8 overs;   Union went in to bat and struggled to get the score board ticking over with the regular loss of wickets. Thanks to a fantastic batting performance by Jayden Brotherton who kept the innings together right till the end despite having wickets fall all around him got us to a rather short but respectable 142. Unfortunately a lack of application at the wicket by our batsmen let us down in a game where things could have gone far better had we put together one good partnership.

Best batting:   Jayden Brotherton 66;   James Pienaar 16.

Union lost the match by 54 runs

U/15 A vs Stirling

The U15 A cricket team travelled to East London to play against Stirling. Due to rain the start of play was delayed and the match was reduced to 30 overs.  Union batted first and scored 126 all out in 26 overs.

est Batsmen:   Sisipho Arnolds 35;   Laythan Carelse 23;   Hlaki Skepe 15.

Stirling replied with 100 all out in 24 overs.

Best bowlers:   Kwande Mhlabeni 3 for 16 in 5 overs;   Hlaki Skepe 3 for 22 in 6 overs;   Daniel Nel 2 for 15 in 5 overs.  Laythan Carelse and Likhona Finca each took one wicket.

Union won the match by 23 runs

2nd Team vs Stirling

The 2nds played against Stirling at home on Saturday.  Stirling won the toss and elected to bat. UHS started off well to have the opposition 53/7 in the 12th over, but were unable to prevent their remaining batsmen from taking their score to 167 in the 32nd over in this 40 over match.
Josh Calitz bowled well for figures of 5/40 in 7 overs and William Kayster 3/43 in 8 overs.

UHS struggled against some hostile bowling. Peter Watermeyer made 40 runs batting for 23 overs, and was the only bat to weather the storm. William Kayster did well for 18 runs. UHS were bowled out in the 29th over for 107 and lost by 60 runs.

Sport Results, Tennis

EPCD Tennis

The following learners have made the Eastern Province Country Districts Tennis Team in their various age groups:

JUNIOR TENNIS PLAYERS

Matthew Paxton; Chloe Erasmus; Tara Ferreira; Misha Newton

U/12 Girls
Tara Ferreira
Misha Newton
Chloe Erasmus

U12 Boys
Matthew Paxton

 

 

 

 

SENIOR TENNIS PLAYERS

U/14 Girls

Back: Sara Kingwill; Noá Cilliers; Christine Harris; Micaela Loock; Anna Pringle. Front: Brent Hesselink; Caytah-Leigh Koeberg

Caytah-Leigh Koeberg
Anna Pringle (Reserve)

U/14 Boys
Brent Hesselink

U/19 Girls
Micela Loock
Sara Kingwill
Christine Harris (Reserve)

U/19 Boys
Noá Cilliers

 

 

Sport Results, Tennis

Senior Tennis Quadrangular

The Top 8 Senior boys’ and girls’ tennis teams competed against our traditional Grahamstown rivals, St Andrews, DSG, Graeme College, Victoria Girls and Kingswood on Sunday 20 January 2019.

The girls beat both VG and Kingswood by 12 matches to 0, with only DSG providing any opposition. UHS won this clash by 7 matches to 5, winning the overall title by 2 matches. Special mention must be made of Micela Loock (number1) and Christine Harri…s (number 3) who were unbeaten on the day in both their singles and doubles matches. Congratulations to Micela Loock who is girls’ captain and Jenna McNaughton vice-captain.

The UHS boys who were competing for the Settlers cup, played tenacious tennis against strong opposition all day. While some individual matches were very closely contested, their fighting spirit saw them beating Graeme College by 10 matches to 2 and Kingswood, 9-3. Going into the final round, St Andrews were one match ahead of us. Losing 3 of the singles matches in tie-breakers, the boys fought hard but were beaten on the day by 8 matches to 4.St Andrews beat us into second place by 5 matches overall. While every member of the team contributed positively, excellent results were achieved by Noä Cilliers, Ebben Johnston and Bowen Langmead.

Biathlon, Sport Results

EP Biathletes Selected

The following biathletes have been selected to represent EP at the Highgate Interprovincial event to be held in Oudtshoorn on the 2nd of February.

Mia Botha
Drew Dobinson
Kendall krige
Hannah Bodenstein
Jade Shires
Jenna McNaughton
Megan Doyle

Reserves are:
Rebecca Copeman
Brigette Oelofsen
Bowen Langmead

Congratulations to all these athletes.

Cricket, Sport Results

Jnr Cricket Results: UHS vs Nico Brummer

U/13A Cricket vs Niko Brummer
On Saturday, 20 January, our U/13A cricket team played a limited over match against Niko Brummer. We were asked to bowl first and started with real urgency in the field, with our opponents on 35-4 after 10 overs we were well in control of proceedings, however, we then suffered a severe lapse in concentration conceding 82 extras in the next 30 overs allowing Niko Brummer to reach 220 runs. Our batsmen started well and after being 92-3 after 13 overs it looked …like it would be smooth sailing. This was not the case and we were bowled out for 122 losing by 98 runs.
Best bowler – Shaakir Kazi 6/28
Best Batsmen – Camran Swartz 32 runs

U/13B lost by 108 runs.