Colourful fun was had by all today as the Grade 10 fundraising committee organised a Colour Splash in the heat at the end of the day!
The 16th Interschools Athletics Meeting against Hoёr Volkskool, was held on Wednesday, 17 October at Hoёr Volkskool. It was a cool, windy afternoon, but that did not stop the Union team of taking part in big numbers and breaking quite a few records.
Union received 17 first places, 24 second places and 26 third places. First places were awarded to the following learners:
O Ngwenya 100 m Boys u15 11,51 s
E Mitchell High Jump Girls u15 1,4 m
M Green High Jump Girls u16 1,4 m
L Theron 200 m Girls u16 29,74 s
J Duba 200 m Boys u16 24,08 s
B Amsterdam Long Jump Boys u16 5,84 m
J McNaughton 800 m Girls u17 2:57,2 s
M Carelse 400 m Boys u17 56,17 s
L McNaughton Shotput Boys u17 11,14 m
R Sparks Discus Girls u19 19,18 m
I Ndamane 400 m Boys u19 54,77 s
Sisipho Arnolds came first in three events:
S Arnolds 100 m Boys u14 12, 2 s
S Arnolds 200 m Boys u14 25,42 s
S Arnolds Long Jump Boys u14 5,24 m
The following learners broke records:
L Finca 400 m Boys u14 1:02,57 minutes
N Ngongama 200 m Boys u15 23,39 s
I Ndamane 800 m Boys u19 2:08,35 minutes
The u19 boys, 100 m race was a nerve wrecking race with Soyama Mbobi in a very close second place.
The Union Team, however, stole the lime light, with winning the final event of the day, the u19 boys 4x 100 m relay. It is a race that will be remembered in the years to come!
All the athletes must be congratulated on their good performance, participation and sportsmanship. There is still just “One team, one Union”….
What a privilege it was to spend time with this group of kind, caring and enthusiastic girls! We looked at wetlands, river health, caught a few crabs in a river, climbed a few fences, fell a few times, had a moonlit swim in a Saltwater pool, learned about an outdoor mechanical fridge, learned about baling lucern and cooled down whilst learning about central irrigation pivots. Best weekend ever!
Union attended the first B-Age gala of the swimming season on Saturday
27 October, with 15 swimmers competing. Even though the gala occurred
much sooner in the term than usual, our swimmers did very well by …
recording good times for the start of the season. It was great to see so
many entries and we’re hoping even more senior swimmers will compete as
the season progresses, so that we can be well represented at the Top 8
Gala next year.
On Saturday morning the top 8 Junior girls travelled to Port Elizabeth to play tennis against Collegiate.
Despite losing to Collegiate there was some excellent tennis played with many games going to deuce/add and some matches being decided by a tie breaker.
U13A Cricket vs Summerwood
This weekend our u13 cricket team played two matches against Summerwood from Port Elizabeth. On both occations our boys played well, but struggled to show disspline when bowling and fielding. This allowed our opponents to score freely and ultimately kept us out of the game. A total of 97 extras were bowled and 7 catches dropped in two days.
Friday: Union lost by 44 runs.…
Saturday: Union lost by 71 runs.
Congratulations to Brent Hesselink for scoring 51 in this matches against Summerwood today.