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Cricket News
A 13-member tour party, accompanied by Messrs Hewett and Frylinck, and driver, Mark Sickle, departed Bishops, pre-sunrise, for a long-awaited maiden high school sports’ tour to the Eastern Cape on Thursday. A 12-hour journey along the N2 culminated in arrival in a misty Makhanda. October dawned with a 50-overs-a-side match hosted by St Andrew’s College: a game in which Bishops emerged victorious by 23 runs. The tour party headed south, thereafter, to Gqeberha to compete in the Grey High School Colts Festival. Consecutive matches v Jeppe; Grey High School (on the Pollock Oval) and Affies followed with Bishops defeating Jeppe by 153 runs; settling for a draw against Grey and, ultimately, losing to Affies, by four wickets, in the final game of the tour. A weary – but thoroughly happy – group returned to Bishops, having driven the N2 again, on Tuesday enriched by the opportunities afforded by a high school sports’ tour. Results’ analysis: Played 4. Won 2. Drew 1. Lost 1.
Under 14A Cricket Tour to KZN
During the recent holidays, the under 14A cricket team undertook a tour to Botha’s Hill, KwaZulu Natal to participate in the Charl van Rooyen under 14A Cricket Festival at Kearsney College. The team played five T20 matches in the cold and rain-affected festival, winning four of the five games. Singa Mayoyo received the tournament’s Best Batsman Award with his tally of 278 runs in four innings.
The details of the matches are as follows:
Game 1: vs Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool u14 A. (Bishops lost the toss and were asked to bat)
Bishops 112 all out
Affies 113/4
(S Moodley 2/24)
Lost by 6 Wickets
Game 2: vs KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union Invitational u14 (Bishops won the toss and chose to bat)
Bishops 179/0
[S.Mayoyo 101* (77), B. Koenig 55*(46)]
KZNCU Invitational 124/8
(J. Pilkington 2/37)
Bishops won 55 runs
Game 3: vs Pretoria Boys’ High School u14 (Bishops won the toss and chose to bat)
Bishops 202/3
[S Mayoyo 112*(70)]
PBHS 81/8
(L de Klerk 2/12, A Augoustatos 2/8)
Bishops won by 121 runs
Game 4: vs Jeppe Boys’ High School (Bishops lost the toss and were asked to bowl)
Jeppe 118/6
(S Moodley 2/23)
Bishops 119/3
[S Mayoyo 54*(50)]
Bishops won by 7 wickets
Game 5: vs Kearsney College ((Bishops lost the toss and were asked to bowl)
Kearsney: 105/7
A Augoustatos 2/12)
Bishops: 106/3
[A. Diggle 65*(38)]
Bishops won by 7 wickets
1st XI cricket – Cape Schools’ Week
The 1st XI had a most successful Cape Schools’ Week, playing four matches and winning all of them!
The Frank Reid was in excellent condition after all the hard work put in by our devoted ground staff and the batsmen, in particular, should be very grateful for the true and easy paced wickets together with a fast outfield. Our top order batsmen certainly took advantage with Abel Mokwena and Kashief Joseph putting on impressive opening stands in each of the first three games - with Abel scoring three half-centuries. This enabled the middle order to capitalise on such good starts. Cole Crawford had an excellent festival with the bat and Storm Matthews scored an impressive maiden century for the 1st XI against Somerset College. All of our bowlers worked hard to take wickets and restrict the opposition batsman. Robbie Dicey is congratulated on gaining a 5fer against Queen’s College on the final day. The captain, Rowan Howard, and the whole team deserve a lot of credit for an excellent start to the second half of the cricket season. Well done to all.
Water polo - WP selection
Congratulations to the following boys who have been selected to represent WP Water polo at the IPT in December.
U14A
Daniel van den Heever
Noah Edmunds
U14B
Christopher Du Toit
U15A
Jordan De Sousa
Mac Lecuona
Ross Walker
U15B
Alexander Smith
John Bos
Thomas Truter
Ross Stewart
Cameron Moon
U16A
Benjamin Hatty
U16B
Michael Cadiz
Benjamin Swift
Trento Lambrechts
U19A
Jonathan Roche
U19B
Nicholas Steinhagen
Max Cary
Luke Bruchhausen
Dean Sneddon
Matthew Lowe
Jack Moyle
Adam De Waal
Enjoy the live water polo action this weekend against Paul Roos.
Friday 22/10/2021 - https://youtu.be/uOEG7C1pSbU
Saturday 23/10/2021 - https://youtu.be/RfOn4f6MDP8
Golf News
The Bishops Interhouse Golf Competition was played on Sunday 17 October on a beautiful afternoon at Steenberg Golf Club.
Gray House finished in 1st place and claimed the trophy for the second time in three years. Founders House narrowly beat Birt House on a count out for 2nd and 3rd places.
Daniel Davidson was the best individual player with a score of 2 under par 70. Sebastian Dorward finished in 2nd place only 1 stroke behind Daniel and James Boustead finished in 3rd place with a score of 73.
Congratulations to the Gray House team.
WP Golf Selection
Christopher Gutuza and Daniel Davidson have been selected for the WP u19 golf team to compete at the IPT later this year. A great way to end a fine golf season for these two matrics, Congratulations!
Fencing
A tough and stressful competition and battling some injuries for Aidan and Daniel Richards. In Epee U17, Daniel won silver after losing 14-15 in the final for gold. Aidan won bronze, after having to compete against Daniel in the semis, where Daniel won by 1 point. Very tough having to compete against each other in a national competition, but well done for their excellent performance and good sportsmanship.
Eskom Expo For Young Scientists
Bishops have had some outstanding results in the 2021 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists which was held online recently. Highly Commended awards were received by Devon Marshall, Ethan Mattison, Malick Majiet, Michael Kruse and Nic Macdonald. Gold medals were won by Daniel Fletcher and Zuhayr Mohamood and they also produced the best project in the Plant Sciences section. Daniel and Zuhayr were then invited to take part in the International Science Fair (which was also held remotely) which involved contestants from as far afield as Indonesia and Mexico. Here they also received Gold medals and were again top in the Plant Sciences section, for which they received a R3000 prize and a plaque.
Cape Town Cycle Tour
The postponed 2021 Cape Town Cycle Tour was finally ridden on what turned out to be a fantastic day for cycling with beautiful weather. On Sunday, 17 October, there was very little wind, the sun was shining and fortunately the day was not too hot. A number of Bishops cyclists competed, and special mention is to be made of Gavin Dingley who rode and outstanding time of 3:05 (3 hours and 5 minutes). James Collins rode in 4.23 and Zuhayr Mohamood rode in 4.57. Congratulations on an excellent effort!
Eastern Cape Tour, Port Alfred, Kowie River: 8th – 10th October.
It has been a busy month for Bishops Rowing Club (BRC). On the 8th, the first and second team travelled to the mighty Kowie and competed in a heads race, 5.4km, and a 500m sprint knockout against St Andrews College, Selborne and Grey.
It was a valuable weekend, with the coxes gaining great experience on a tricky river and the rowers exposed to tough conditions and competition. A beach day and a pie at Nanaga farmstall were a must. All results, pictures and insights will be posted shortly, visit the rowing blog to find out more.
Somerset Sprints Regatta, Elgin, Eikenhof Dam
The U15’s, current grade 8’s stole the show. The only competing Bishops age group cleaned up with the following results:
A Quad, A4x - 1st
B Quad, B4x - 1st
A Scull, A1x - 1st
A Oct, A8x+ - 1st
It is safe to say we have a nuggetty age group, who are willing to put their bodies on the line. Coaches Nick Muller and Danielle Ritson had only positive comments, mainly: “lots of smiles”.
The School Shop
The School Shop runs the second hand clothing program at the College. They are appealing for all saleable used clothing that is no longer required to be delivered to them. This is done as a donation, as the shop does not reimburse College parents for second hand items donated. The revenues from second hand items sold from the shop form part of the monthly payments and the annual profit the Shop remits to the school, which is is in turn credited into the bursary and scholarship fund administered by the school. Please support the Shop so that they can build up adequate stocks of second hand clothing for the back to school requirements in January 2022 and beyond. |
