District Athletics

A wet start to the week led to the cancellation of the Independent District Athletics Carnival. The Independent District was the only district which attempted to run an athletics carnival this year following the cancellation of regional, state and national championships due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, the carnival will not be rescheduled.

Competitive Sport

Basketball

Last Friday, four Pacific senior basketball teams played semi-final matches in the Sunshine Coast Secondary Schools Basketball Competition. Well done to the Senior E Boys who were convincing winners and now progress through to the grand final this week. They take on Matthew Flinders at 4.00pm at Caloundra on Friday and we wish them all the very best.

Unfortunately, they were the only team this year to make it that far. Our Senior D Girls lost to Nambour Christian College in a tough game. The Senior D Boys were involved in a nail-biting match against Siena Catholic College where the boys made several comebacks from behind, to come agonisingly close to winning. However, they went down by two points in the final seconds of the game. The Senior A Girls played their hearts out, despite facing a range of barriers to their finals campaign. It was always going to be a challenge to come up against an undefeated team, when three of your five starters are out through injury or sickness.

Rugby

Both the Under 14s and 1st XV played home games at Pacific this week. The Under 14s took on an undefeated Chancellor State College team in what turned into a high scoring game. Pacific looked to be in control of the match in the early stages only to let Chancellor back into the game in the second half. In the end, Pacific managed to hang onto the lead to record a 45-36 win thanks to strong performances by Jack Packer, Tom Johnston and Cooper Johnston. 

The 1st XV played Sunshine Coast Grammar 2nd XV in the last game of the season. In a tight game, Pacific managed to keep Grammar scoreless in the second half but were unable to come away with victory going down 21-14. Mr Josh Cummins made special mention of Hamish Singleton and Niels Whiteley who played strongly on the night.

Water Polo

Unfortunately, on Monday both the Junior A and Intermediate A Girls opposing teams forfeited, so our girls did not get to play. Our Intermediate A Boys played Grace Lutheran College in an entertaining game. The boys were able to secure a fantastic 14 -7 win on the night, with special mention to Jack Smith who had an awesome game as goalkeeper. 

Touch Football

Touch Football games for the Year 7-12 Pacific teams finished this week with our Intermediate A Girls playing their last game against Sunshine Coast Grammar School. Both the junior and intermediate teams just missed out on finals this year but showed plenty of skill and determination during the season. The Intermediate A Girls finished their season with a great win on Wednesday evening, 4-2 over Sunshine Coast Grammar School. Jess Lloyd, Abigail Tracey and Roze Stockwell played strongly on the night.

T20 Cricket

Last Friday a keen group of Pacific cricketers, led by Mr Stuart Pohlner, gave up their pupil free day to represent the College in first round of the Street Smarts T20 Cricket Competition. Our team played two strong matches against Burnside State High School and St Andrew’s Anglican College (SAAC) winning both – 176-53 against Burnside and 112-96 against SAAC. The boys swung the willow making two impressive scores against both teams, which was too much for both schools to reach. They fielded strongly, backing up, taking exceptional catches and put immense pressure on their opposition. Their bowling was very accurate, shutting down both schools so they were unable to score. Overall, it was a sensational effort; well done to the boys.

   

Mr Pohlner’s highlights from the day were:

• Henry Friend’s spectacular left-handed diving grab.
• Lachlan Embleton’s 4 wickets in 2 overs to dismiss SAAC.
• Logan Pohlner’s magnificent 50!
• Will Rabnott’s incredible wicket keeping for both games.
• Angus Friend, bowling one of the best under 14’s batsmen on the Sunshine Coast.
• Will Whittingham’s 6 that went for miles!
• Lachie Currey’s king of spin and shutting SAAC to a crawl.
• Jack Packer getting 2 wickets for 4 runs off 2 overs in the first game.
• Harman Dahiya’s incredibly powerful cover drives for 4.
• Cooper Kiernan’s determined batting to save the second game.
• Alex Lee’s incredible captaincy – one of the best performances I’ve seen!

Well done boys and thank you to Mr Pohlner for coaching the boys during lunchtimes and organising the day.

Caloundra Cricket

Registrations are open for Caloundra Cricket’s junior teams and U5-9 Cricket Blast Program. Click here for more information on the programs.

Visit the PlayCricket website to sign up: https://www.playcricket.com.au/.

CareMonkey Name Change

The Sports Department communications platform CareMonkey has recently rebranded to Operoo. The rebrand involved a name change and logo change only. How we use the service, as well as the ownership and operation of the company, has remain unchanged. Text messages and emails will now come through from Operoo. Parents are asked to be mindful to check ‘junk/spam’ files during the early days of this change.

As always, it is important to keep your contact and medical details up to date on both Operoo and on the TASS parent portal. Operoo accounts are ‘owned’ by parents and as such we are unable to update these details on your behalf.

Mr Darren Hooper, Head of Sport