Overview Sporting Achievements
College’s penultimate round of summer sport fixtures were against local rivals St Charles. The basketball teams once again produced an excellent set of results, as did the water polo teams, although there were mixed fortunes on the cricket fields. With athletics, squash and cycling events, it was another busy weekend for Maritzburg College.
Basketball
College won 17 of their 19 basketball matches against St Charles College. The 1st team and U15A team participated in the St John’s tournament.
Summary of results:
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| Team | Opponent | Venue | Time | Score | Result |
| 2nd | SCC | College | 12:00 | 42-30 | Won |
| 3rd | SCC | College | 12:00 | 24-19 | Won |
| 4th | SCC | College | 11:00 | 35-36 | Lost |
| 5th | SCC | College | 11:00 | 28-14 | Won |
| 6th | SCC | College | 11:00 | 34-18 | Won |
| 7th | SCC | College | 10:00 | 16-36 | Lost |
| 16A | SCC | College | 10:00 | 56-33 | Won |
| 16B | SCC | College | 10:00 | 23-20 | Won |
| 16C | SCC | College | 10:00 | 38-4 | Won |
| 16D | SCC | College | 11:00 | 57-13 | Won |
| 15B | SCC | College | 09:00 | 40-28 | Won |
| 15C | SCC | College | 09:00 | 20-18 | Won |
| 15D | SCC | College | 08:00 | 38-8 | Won |
| 15E | SCC | College | 09:00 | 25-20 | Won |
| 14A | SCC | College | 08:00 | 47-13 | Won |
| 14B | SCC | College | 08:00 | 50-8 | Won |
| 14C | SCC | College | 08:00 | 25-2 | Won |
| 14D | SCC | College | 09:00 | 42-3 | Won |
| 14E | SCC | College | 12:00 | 43-3 | Won |
St John’s Festival
U15A
Vs Michael Mount lost 47-48
Vs St Andrew’s won 62-23
Vs Kings Linbro won 39-17
Vs St Albans won 59-30
Vs Hilton lost 59-71
Vs Michaelhouse won 49-29
1st team
Vs St Albans lost 45-66
Vs St David’s won 50-32
Vs Jeppe won 59-26
Vs St John’s won 51-43
Vs Northwood lost 41-80
Vs ESCA lost 33-35
Water polo
College’s water polo teams secured three wins from four matches against St Charles College, with a convincing 27-1 victory for the 1st team.
Summary of results:
| Team | Opposition | Venue | Time | Score | Result |
| 1st | SCC | College- Long Course | 11:15 | 27-1 | Won |
| 3rd | SCC 2nd | College-Short Course | 10:30 | 17-3 | Won |
| 15B | SCC Junior A | College-Short Course | 09:45 | 5-11 | Lost |
| 14A | SCC Junior B | College-Short Course | 09:00 | 15-4 | Won |
Cricket
There were mixed fortunes for the College cricket teams over the weekend. Although they won 10 of their 14 matches, the 1st XI match see-sawed back and forth on a scorching Goldstones, before the away side eventually secured a 54 run victory.
1st team report (Mr Robbie Coutts, 1st XI Coach)
College’s 1st XI Captain, Chad Mason, lost the toss and the visiting captain elected to bat first on a hot and humid morning.
The decision looked a good one with the St Charles opening pair putting on 81 in 15 overs. The partnership was broken by Ryan McKean, who also picked up the second wicket an over later. College never allowed St Charles to put on any meaningful partnerships, picking up wickets at regular intervals. Off spinner Oliver Da Costa and leg spinner Mason bowled with good control and never let the opposition batsmen settle and limited them to 195 all out in 45 overs. Mason with 3 wickets and Mc Kean with two were the pick of the bowlers.
Llewelyn Sutherland was the first batsmen to be dismissed in the 6th over with the score on 23. Two wickets fell quickly before Daniel Nadasan and Oliver DaCosta steadied the College innings with a 45 run partnership, at tea College were well placed at a 93 for 3, needing 103 runs in 25 overs. Controversially, Nadasan was run out for a well-played 39, the runout started the collapse of the College innings wickets falling at regular intervals. The College middle and lower order once again, struggled to rotate the strike in the middle overs and that ensured the required run rate climbed. College from being well set at tea, collapsed to 141 all out in the 42nd over.
St Charles 195 all out; Mason 3 for 29, McKean 2 for 15
College 141 all out; Nadasan 39, Da Costa 28
St Charles won by 54 runs
Summary of scores:
| Team | Opposition | Format | Results |
| 1st | St Charles | 50 | SCC 195 all out; Mason 3-29 College 141 all out; Nadasan 39 College lost by 54 runs |
| 2nd | St Charles | 50 | College 155 all out; Hosking 53, Goslett 50 SCC 158/6; Pembridge 3-25, Goslett 2-38 College lost by 4 wickets |
| 3rd | Howick 1st | T20 | College 89 all out; Miller 21 Howick 24/2 Match abandoned |
| 4th | St Charles 3rd | 20 | SCC 122 all out: Deyzel 3-14, Gwala 2-21 College 124/4; Ekerold 57, van der Vliet 37 College won by 6 wickets |
| 5th | St Charles 4th | 20 | SCC 119 all out; Wilson 4-19, Borchers 2-27 College 120/7; Maartens 32, Tilbury 27 College won by 3 wickets |
| 16A | St Charles | 50 | SCC 101 all out; Willson 7-7, de Bruyn 2-24 College 104/3; Wilson 54*, Bharat 40 College won by 7 wickets |
| 16B | St Charles | 30 | SCC 80 all out College 81/7, Jursa 22 College won by 3 wickets |
| 16C | St Charles | 20 | College: 137-8; Nzuza 45, Brande 34 SCC: 137-7; Bryant 3-8 College lost by 3 wickets |
| 15A | St Charles | 50 | SCC 152/8; Marcus 3-27, Schoeman 3-23 College 137 all out College lost by 15 runs |
| 15B | St Charles | 30 | College 192/7; Lessing 55, Seakeco 39, Barnard 35* SCC 185 all out; Mlambo 2-15, Langford 2-28, Hellberg 2-39 College won by 7 runs |
| 15C | Northdale Hub | 20 | Northdale Hub 74 all out. College 75/6; Hendriks 3-7 College won by 6 wickets |
| 15D | St Charles C | 20 | College 135/7 SCC 123 all out College won by 12 runs |
| 15E | Howick Jnr A | 20 | Howick 173/4; Mshengu 2-31. College 92 all out; Naidoo 25 College lost by 81 runs |
| 14A | St Charles | 50 | College 169 all out SCC 121 all out College won by 48 runs |
| 14B | St Charles | 30 | College 200/7; Watson 65*, Francis 50 SCC 125 all out; Pauw 3-34, Smith 3-26 College won by 75 runs |
| 14C | St Charles | 20 | SCC 126 all out. College 127/4 College won by 6 wickets |
| 14E | St Charles D | 20 | SCC 64/8 College 64/2 College won by 8 wickets |
| 14F | Imbali Hub | 20 | Hub 123-8 College 66 all out College lost by 57 runs |
| 14G | Cordwalles | 20 | College 129/9 Cordwalles 30 all out College won by 99 runs |
Athletics
College’s athletes once again produced an outstanding set of results, including setting two new records at the 4th aQuelle series. With 18 schools participating, College finished 1st again, achieving six 1st places, five 2nd places and seven 3rd places.
Results:
1st:
S Ismail – 800m under 16 (2:03.71) Breaking his OWN RECORD by 4 seconds.
S Jansen – Hammer under 16 (33.38m)
S Oosthuizen – Javelin under 20 (47.90m) NEW RECORD and Hammer under 20 (26.65m)
A Kritzinger – Long Jump under 20 (6.52m)
Under 16 4x100m relay team (47.91s)
2nd:
K Wichmann – Javelin under 20 (37.69m)
T Ekerold – Hammer under 18 (37.27m)
Y Mchunu – 200m under 20 (22.34s)
L Kunene – Long jump under 20 (6.37)
L Makhoba – 3000m under 16 (11:01.63)
3rd:
C Sweetnam – Javelin under 18 (44.08m)
N Breedt – Hammer under 16 (28.58m)
R Jacobsz – 800m Under 20 (2:09.27)
D Haines – Hammer under 20 (22.61m)
T Boshoff – Hammer under 18 (29.95)
Y Mchunu – Long Jump under 20 (6.37m)
J Werth – 3000m under 20 (10:09.26)
Overall age categories: 1st under 20: Y Mchunu
Cycling
College’s mountain bikers competed in the popular Illovo Wartburg Classic MTB race. With three distance options, the boys placed in all three races in their age categories.
The 60km event had 136 riders. Congratulations to L Newlands (3rd), B Foster (4th) and M Jewaskiewitz (5th) who competed in the Junior age category of the tough 60km route. K Searle finished in 5th in the Youth category over the same distance.
A total of 89 riders entered the 45km, with M Barnardo taking silver in the Senior age category, while talented rider C Sellick took gold in the Junior age category. In the Youth age category, J Jankovich finished 10th.
There were 153 riders in the 25km event which saw G Jordan claim 3rd place and H McIntyre 4th in the Junior age category. In the Youth age category, congratulations went to B Fourie who took top spot while A Naidoo finished in 5th.
Squash
College squash teams played two fixtures this week. In the first match vs Howick, the Top 10 seniors won 10-0, while the Top 5 juniors played GHS 1st team and won 3-2.
In the second match against Westville, College lost 6-4 in a highly contested fixture, which could have gone either way.
Canoeing
College’s paddlers competed in the Inter-Schools Race in Underberg over the weekend, posting excellent results.
U/14
Fynn Venniker 1st
Cullen Mackay-Leslie 3rd
Joshua Don-Wauchope 4th
Brett Gotte 6th
Todd Stone 7th
Chris Craig 10th
U/16
Keegan Vogt 1st
James Gotte 3rd
Matthew Rawson 4th
Nathan Curry 6th
Joshua Craig 7th
Hayden Reitz 8th
Brad Cook 9th
Dylan Fish 10th
U/18
Jack Odell 3rd
Simon Norton 7th
Angling
Congratulations to Jacques Bradford (class of 2023), Tristan Saville, Ross Wichmann and Sean Kleu who have been selected for the KZN Junior Bass Angling team and will represent their province at the national event at Rust de Winter Dam in Limpopo during the March 2024 school holidays.
Debating
College’s senior debaters won both of their second round encounters; College 1 beat St Johns DSG with MH Moosa judged best speaker, while College 2 beat Hilton 1, and K Moodley was named best speaker.