Kearsney nets another decisive victory
The local school's 1st team water polo players snapped up a score of 23 - 1 against St Charles College at the weekend.
PHOTO: Tracey van den Aardweg
Water polo
KEARSNEY’S 1st water polo team took on St Charles College in an away game on Saturday.
The game started with a pressure defence to try to force St Charles into making mistakes. They were rewarded almost immediately with a counter attack goal. This became the pattern for the rest of the chukka, with Kearsney scoring six goals with no reply.
In the second chukka, St Charles were more careful on their attack and made Kearsney work harder on defence. Kearsney’s counter attack was too quick and their shooting too accurate for St Charles and they scored another five goals.
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Kearsney dominated the 3rd chukka and scored well-worked team goals on every attack and took the score to 19-0.
The 4th chukka was a little scrappy, Kearsney was impatient and made a few mistakes that allowed St Charles to score their first goal of the game. Kearsney were still far stronger and scored another four in reply, with Ox Carmody rounding off his tally of six goals in the game.
The final score of 23-1 was a fitting end to stellar school careers of captain, Taine Buys, and vice-captain, Nic Baines, who both earned 100 1st team caps.
Basketball
On Saturday, Kearsney played against St Charles for the penultimate match of the 2018 basketball season.
The oppressive heat in the indoor centre didn’t deter either team as they relished the clash.
The game started well for St Charles, as they raced to a seven-point lead as Kearsney was not able to halt the offensive onslaught or score themselves. Kearsney weathered the storm and made up the deficit with some determined defence and accurate shooting. The local team was marginally behind at the end of the first quarter with 11 – 13.
The second quarter belonged to Kearsney, but it was clear to spectators who had braved the heat that this was going to be a close contest. Half-time had Kearsney 25 – 24 ahead, setting up a closely contested second half.
St Charles looked to be in control at the end of the third quarter, having managed to outscore the visiting team 19 – 12.
True to the Kearsney team’s character, they continued to fight hard and managed to win the final quarter 14 – 11, but it was not enough to secure the game. St Charles eked out a final 56 – 53 victory. The return match next term promises to be a good one.
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