Overview Sporting Achievements
College’s athletes continued their outstanding form winning the aQuelle Athletics series overall and producing excellent results. The week ended College’s summer sport fixtures which included basketball, water polo and cricket against Kearsney. The College U14A basketball team did very well at the Jeppe Festival winning 10 of their 14 matches. With boys also competing in debating, squash, canoeing and golf, it was another busy sporting week for Maritzburg College.
Basketball
College won 12 of their 22 basketball matches against Kearsney with the 1st team completing an outstanding unbeaten season winning 63-56.
Summary of results:
| 1st | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 63-56 | Won |
| 2nd | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 36-34 | Won |
| 3rd | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 17-28 | Lost |
| 4th | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 37-26 | Won |
| 5th | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 18-18 | Drew |
| 6th | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 8-18 | Lost |
| 7th | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 23-25 | Lost |
| 16A | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 41-43 | Lost |
| 16B | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 18-33 | Lost |
| 16C | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 16-26 | Lost |
| 16D | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 26-15 | Won |
| 16E | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 66-32 | Won |
| 15A | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 41-40 | Won |
| 15B | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 30-38 | Lost |
| 15C | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 32-42 | Lost |
| 15D | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 26-12 | Won |
| 15E | Kearsney | Kearsney | 16:00 | 19-12 | Won |
| 14A | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 22-28 | Lost |
| 14B | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 24-22 | Won |
| 14C | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 18-16 | Won |
| 14D | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 23-21 | Won |
| 14E | Kearsney | Kearsney | 15:00 | 28-9 | Won |
Jeppe Festival
The U14A basketball team competed in the Jeppe Festival winning 10 of their 14 matches.
Won 16-10 vs St Andrew’s
Lost 11-09 vs Kearsney
Won 27-17 vs St Benedict’s
Won 20-04 vs Jeppe
Lost 05-17 vs KES
Won 11-05 vs PBHS
Won 15-08 vs Parktown
Lost 07-13 vs St John’s
Lost 07-20 vs St Stithian’s
Won 16-10 vs St David’s
Won 14-0 vs Jeppe Invitational
Won 21-07 vs Westville
Won 18-14 vs Michaelhouse
Won 18-03 vs Peaconwood
Water polo
In some very tight matches, College won two of their water polo fixtures against Kearsney and drew one but lost five.
Summary of results
| Team | Opposition | Venue | Time | Score | Result |
| 1st | Kearsney | Kearsney Main Pool | 17:00 | 12-21 | Lost |
| 2nd | Kearsney | Kearsney Main Pool | 16:20 | 4-4 | Drew |
| 3rd | Kearsney | Kearsney Top Pool | 16:00 | 9-1 | Won |
| 4th | Kearsney | Kearsney Top Pool | 15:00 | 10-7 | Won |
| 15A | Kearsney | Kearsney Main Pool | 15:40 | 4-15 | Lost |
| 15B | Kearsney | Kearsney Top Pool | 16:30 | 5-9 | Lost |
| 14A | Kearsney | Kearsney Main Pool | 15:00 | 4-20 | Lost |
| 14B | Kearsney | Kearsney Top Pool | 15:30 | 4-8 | Lost |
Cricket
College played nine 100-ball matches against Kearsney during the week, winning five of the games, although the 1st XI match was unfortunately abandoned.
Summary of scores:
| Team | Opposition | Format | Results |
| 1st | Kearsney | 100 ball | Match abandoned |
| 2nd | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 141/7; Deolyn 34 Kearsney 137/5; Goslett 1-10 College won by 4 runs |
| 3rd | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 188/5, Erasmus 71, Miller 36, Tocknell 34 Kearsney 152/6; Naidoo 2-16, Venter 1-7 College won by 36 runs |
| 16A | Kearsney | 100 ball | Kearsney 122/8; de Bruyn 2-9, du Toit 1-7 College 125/5; Bharath 30, de Bruyn 23 College won by 5 wickets |
| 16B | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 108/5 Kearnsey 109/5; Jursa 3-10 College lost by 6 wickets |
| 15A | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 128/4; van der Merwe 50* Kearsney 88/5l Hosking 5-3 College won by 40 runs |
| 15B | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 135/3; Killick 39*, Langford 33, Thomas 23 Kearsney 106/9; Hellberg 2-15, Mhlango 2-25, Killick 1-10 College won by 29 runs |
| 14A | Kearsney | 100 ball | College 111/7; Bhatt 30 Kearsney 112/3; Bishop 2/17 College lost by 7 wickets |
| 14B | Kearsney | 100 ball | Kearsney 147/7; Swanepoel 2-11, Smith 3-21 College 123/9; Badenhorst 38, Francis 31 College lost by 24 runs |
Athletics
College’s athletes once again produced an outstanding set of results at the 5th aQuelle series, finishing 1st again and were awarded the trophy for winning the overall series for 2024.
Summary of results:
YU Mchunu – Under 20 Champion of the series and overall athlete of the series; two 1st place, three 2nd places and one 3rd place.
ER Maynard – 3rd Under 20 for the series; two 2nd places.
S Ismail – Under 16 Champion of the series and 3rd overall for the series; four 1st places and four records.
TJ Boshoff -2nd Under 16 for the series; two 2nd places and two 3rd places.
SD Jansen – 3rd Under 16 for the series; three 1st place, two 2nd places and one 3rd place.
N Breedt – Two 1st places, one 2nd place and two 3rd places.
SS Gumbi – Two 2nd places.
M Kritzinger – One 3rd place.
A Kritzinger – Two 1st places, one 2nd place.
SS Oosthuizen – Three 1st place and one record.
M Mogale – One 1st place.
TB Ekerold – Two 2nd places.
KC Wichmann – One 2nd place and one 3rd place.
MR Thomson – One 3rd place.
UO Gamede – One 3rd place.
L Makhoba – One 2nd places and one 3rd place.
J Badenhorst – One 3rd place.
LS Kunene – One 2nd place.
CA Sweetnam – One 3rd place.
RF Jacobsz – One 3rd place.
DT Haines – One 3rd place.
JR Werth – One 3rd place.
Twenty-one Maritzburg College athletes took part in the KZN Athletics Championships. College won six Gold, six Silver and five Bronze medals and was placed 7th overall for Clubs in KZN.
Summary of results:
Gold:
SD Jansen – Shotput under 15 (12,75m) and Hammer under 15 (40,10m)
A Kritzinger – Long Jump under 19 (6,47m)
N Breedt – Discus under 15 (40,06m)
S Ismail – 800m under 15 (2:02,59)
SS Gumbi – High Jump under 15 (1,70m)
Silver:
N Breedt – Shotput under 15 (12,69m) and Hammer under 15 (35,10m)
M Mogale – 100m under 15(11,32s)
A Kritzinger – High Jump under 19 (1,89m)
TJ Boshoff – Discus under 17 (38,10m) and Shotput under 17 (13,53m)
Bronze:
TB Ekerold – Hammer under 17 (38,63m) and Shotput under 17 (11,11m)
SD Jansen – Discus under 15 (34,93m)
S Ismail – 1500m under 15 (4:24,12)
L Baptista – Discus under 17 (31,10m)
Squash
College senior squash team took on a combined St Charles/St Johns side, winning convincingly 13 – 1 in matches.
Canoeing
College’s canoeists partnered with the talented Epworth girls for the Mixed Doubles Interschools race over the weekend from Lions River to Midmar Dam.
Results
Overall
Jack Odell & (Jess Behn) – 1st
James Gotte & (Tayla Norton) – 3rd
Keegan Vogt & (Chloe Vogt) 5th
Matthew van Heerden & (Tori Little) 6th
U/16
James Gotte & (Tayla Norton) – 1st
Keegan Vogt & (Chloe Vogt) – 2nd
Matthew Rawson & (Libby Ross) 8th
Cycling
The Maritzburg College MTB cyclists took part in the Cascades MTB Provincial XCO event 1 over the weekend, posting very good results and placing in the top10 in their age categories.
Sub-junior age category:
C Baxter 4th
Youth age category:
K Searle 3rd
Junior age category:
L Newlands 2nd
C Sellick 4th
M Jewaskiewitz 5th
B Foster 6th
Senior age category:
M Barnardo 7th
Tennis
College’s tennis team took on Riverwood this week, winning their matches 12-0.
Congratulations to L Puddu who was part of the U15 Midlands team that finished 2nd in the inter district trials over the weekend.
Table Tennis
College took part in the Table Tennis A and B league events, winning 36 of their 47 matches in the A league and 33 of 50 matches in the B league.
Debating
Round 2
Grade 8:
College 1 v Riverwood – forfeit
College 2 v MCS – won: Best speaker K Mkhwane
Juniors
College 1 v Hilton 2, lost
College 2 v Epworth won: Best speaker A Ngcobo
Golf
Golf vs Michaelhouse
1st lost 3-5
2nd lost 1-3