Touch Football

BBSSSA Under 13’s Alex Rozario

On 17 March, the Under 13’s Touch Football Team travelled to Sydney to compete in the Broken Bay Gala Day. The day started off well with a 10-0 win over St Brigid’s Catholic College, Lake Munmorah, where the boys were in great attacking form. The second game was tipped to be a tough one, coming up against what we knew would be a strong MacKillop Catholic College side. The game went back and forth, with both teams having many opportunities to score, but each defence was scrambling too well. A late game try meant that we would win the game 1-0. Heading into the third game of the pool stage, against St Peter’s Catholic College, Tuggerah, we were full of confidence. After a shaky start, with some missed opportunities, we composed ourselves and came away winners 7-0.

The quarter final saw us face off with St Leo’s Catholic College, Wahroonga, we were on top for the majority of the game and came away winners 7-1, the first game in which we had conceded a try.The semi-final would prove to be a challenging game against a well drilled Mater Maria side. They came out of the gates firing with two quick tries and we knew we would have our work cut out for us. Every time we would score, Mater Maria Catholic College, Warriewood, hit back with a try of their own, not allowing us to get into reach. Unfortunately, we lost the hard-fought game 5-3.

All players thoroughly enjoyed the day, and there were many amazing individual and team performances. With exceptional leadership and outstanding touch footy ability shown, the player of the day award goes to Lachlan Park.

The Under 13’s Touch Football Team

Team Members Asher Armstrong, Noah Derwin, Taj Gooley, Callum Griffin, Cooper Hall, Bray Kurzydlo, Nixon Lavin, Brady Mackay, Alex Mccoombe-Lopez, Lachlan Park, Tahj Regattieri, Kyan Werner

BBSSSA Under 15’s Paul English

The Under 15’s Touch Football Team

After trialling in the third week of Term 1, 13 boys were chosen to represent the College at the Broken Bay school championships. Captained by Sean Bullen, the team moved confidently through their pool games and had convincing wins, 6-2 over St Paul’s Catholic College, Manly, 8-0 over St Brigid’s Catholic College, Lake Munmorah, and 5-2 over Mater Maria Catholic College, Warriewood.

An easy 8-0 win over St Leo’s Catholic College, Wahroonga, in the quarter finals, set the team up for a 3-1 win over Mary MacKillop Catholic College, Warnervale, in the semi-final. Unfortunately, our young team was schooled by St Augustine’s Catholic College, Brookvale in the final, losing 8-4.

All the boys played well and with two thirds of the team playing up an age group, the challenge is to go one better next year.

The player’s player on the day was Sean Bullen in Year 10, who led from the front and was positive in all that he did on the field.

After a possible/probable trial was held on the day, the following boys were selected for the Broken Bay Under 15 team to contest the NSWCCC championships later in the year: Sean Bullen, Matthew Humphries, and Sam Flakus. Zac Straker and Harper Turner were also named as shadow players for the team. Due to COVID however, the championships did not go ahead.

Team Members Korey Botting, Sean Bullen, Samuel Flakus, Matthew Humphries, Hunter Kay, Samuel Logan, Oscar Mahoney, Byron Marks, Blade Marquart, Luke Shereb, Zachary Straker, Harper Turner, Donovan Wright

Touch Football

Year 9 and 10 Jason Carpenter

In what was called the coldest day in 37 years, our Year 9 and 10 team travelled to the Kingsway Playing Fields in St Marys to contest the Metro All Schools carnival. Feeling the effects of the cold weather, our boys bravely stepped out of the warm bus to begin their campaign. As the weather gods would have it, intermittent rain also began in the middle of our warm-up and remained with us for the day.

Year 9 and 10 Touch Football Team

The boys played pool games against St Dominic’s Catholic College (winning 4-0), Gilroy Catholic College (winning 7-3) and Wollemi College (winning 9-0). Due to a team pulling out the day before, we were ranked 1-4 and our remaining pool game was again against Wollemi College. As the boys had done all morning, they continued their good team play and ran away with the game to win 7-0 and top their pool. A fantastic display of wet weather touch football.

The format of the day involved a game on game-off situation, it was decided amongst the team to spend our breaks in the bus with the heater on to keep us warm. Nevertheless, the boys continued their run in the competition. Firstly, against Oxford Falls College in the quarter finals, winning comfortably 10-0. Our semi final was a much closer and competitive game against Narrabeen Sports High. By this time, the wet and muddy conditions had slowed down the pace of the game and made it very difficult to create opportunities. The team, however, was able to hang in there and graft out a late try to seal a 3-2 win.

Onto the final and as fate would have it, we played another coast team, Narara Valley High School. Fatigue had started to impact our depleted team of nine players and the conditions did not help. Narara was able to score two quick tries and the team was unable to claw their way back. We eventually lost the game 3-1. Full credit to Narara who were too good in the end.

Team Members Sean Bullen, Dylan Day, Kieran Diamond, Tyrone Dorrell, Sam Flakus, Will Hodder, Matt Humphries, Calan Tucker, Jonah Wright

BBSSSA Opens Jason Carpenter

On Tuesday 16 February, the Open Touch Football team played in and won the Broken Bay (BBSSSA) Gala Day. The team played pool games against: St Paul’s Catholic College winning 7-2, St Brigid’s Catholic College winning 8-0, Mater Maria Catholic College winning 8-1. This meant they topped their pool and progressed to a quarter final against St Peter’s Catholic College. In a very lop-sided game, the team ran in some fantastic tries to easily account for St Peter’s 10-1.

The competition took a break at this point and moved to the Possible and Probable’s selection trial for the Broken Bay (BBSSSA) team. We had 10 boys selected in this trial, with 8 making the final team, they were: Owen Flaherty, Toby Paterson, Fletcher Powell, Tyler Moriarty, Sebastian Plaister, Zane Smith, Kieran Diamond and Tyrone Dorrell. Josh Attard and Joel Evans have also been selected as shadows for the team. These boys progressed to the NSWCCC Selection Carnival on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 March at Nelson’s Bay.

With the selection trial out of the way, it was back to the competition. Yet again we played Mater Maria and the boys were very much in cruise mode. Some individual brilliance and great team play saw us run away winners 5-1.

Onto the final and a surprise opponent in St Paul’s. Having played them earlier, the team had a good idea of what they needed to do to control and overcome an enthusiastic St Paul’s team. Our key players controlled the flow of the game and we scored several well-constructed tries. St Paul’s did not go away and kept fighting back with the Eddies Boys running out winners 5-2 and being crowned Broken Bay Champions. A fantastic result and testament to a very good all-round team effort on the day.

Opens Touch Football Team

Team Members Josh Attard, Kieran Diamond, Tyrone Dorrell, Joel Evans, Owen Flaherty, Tyler Moriarty, Beau Newlands, Toby Paterson, Daniel Peters, Tommo Peters, Sebastian Plaister, Fletcher Powell, Zane Smith

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