The Chronicle 2022

Our first and second stayers teams participated in the A and B divisions respectively. Our first stayers team grew from strength to strength over the tournament; delivering some excellent performances in victories over Saheti (58-9), Kingswood College (65-40), Trichardt School, Mozambique (44-23) and Clifton College (58-42). We unfortunately, came unstuck in the quarter-final against St David’s (40-45) but redeemed ourselves with victories over St John’s College (63-25) and St Alban’s College (45-39) to finish fifth overall. Our second stayers team also delivered some superb results winning all of their group matches and making it to the semi-finals of the B division. They narrowly lost to Kearsney College (30-35) in the semi-final before beating St Benedict’s College in the third/fourth play-off to finish in third place in the B division. Our U14A and B teams attended the St Andrew’s College Eastern Cape Experience Festival at the start of November. The A team played a total of five matches, winning four and losing one. The one match they lost was against St Stithians College (29-35) who we played after the controversy of being pitted against the St Andrew’s College U15A team (a team we were not made aware was their U15A team until after the match and who we only ended up losing to by two points). The B team played a total of four matches, winning two and losing two. The spirit of these teams was excellent, and the boys made big strides in their individual skill levels. The festival was also invaluable preparation for the U15A St John’s Tournament in February and we are excited to see how they would progress in this prestigious tournament. Boys and coaches alike have thoroughly enjoyed this busy and productive year on the courts. We are very privileged to have experienced coaches on our teaching staff and have enjoyed the services of a number of top external coaches. I would like to thank Bandile Nsele, Mondli Mkhize, Steven Sliedrecht and Langalethu Mbhele for their excellent efforts this year. A special thank you to Mr Ayanda Duma who leaves us after years of dedicated service to the basketball club. We also pay our heart felt respects to the family of the late Bongani Khumalo, who we learned had tragically passed in November. Bongani was our

first team coach in 2017 and 2018. Given the heights our club has reached in 2022 we will have a tough act to follow in 2023. BASKETBALL 2022 TEAM P W D L GF GA GD % 1st 24 18 0 6 1183 774 409 75 2nd 20 17 0 3 740 423 317 85 3rd 9 5 0 4 231 254 -23 56 4th 5 4 0 1 155 66 89 80 5th 5 2 0 3 83 120 -37 40 6th 4 2 0 2 92 77 15 50 U16A 25 20 0 5 675 425 250 80 U16B 11 7 0 4 320 193 127 64 U16C 7 5 0 2 215 121 94 71 U16D 9 8 0 1 284 112 172 89 U16E 1 1 0 0 48 7 41 100 U15A 15 10 0 5 518 343 175 67 U15B 11 7 0 4 232 177 55 64 U15C 10 8 0 2 266 128 138 80 U15D 9 4 0 5 148 160 -12 44 U15E 5 0 0 5 36 122 -86 0 U14A 15 14 0 1 509 209 300 93 U14B 15 9 0 6 388 268 120 60 U14C 9 4 0 5 166 154 12 44 U14D 9 4 0 5 137 106 31 44 U14E 8 2 0 6 69 150 -81 25 Totals: 226 151 0 75 6495 4389 2106 67

FIRST TEAM BASKETBALL

Coaches: Mr Junior Mazibuko, Mr Nkanyiso Ngcobo, Mr Prosper Dubazana Captain: Sikhumbuzo (Lucky) Mabuza First team: Lucky Mabuza, Luke Farndell, Matt de Villiers, Diego Fernandes, Chris Masefield, Nathi Kumalo, Wandile Mlaba, Abongile Xulu, Elihle Ngcobo, Sihle Mokoena, Dalitso Simwinwa, Jordan Baxter, Sentso Tlelai he firsts had an excellent year, which got off to a winning start with a victory over champions of the Kearsney Stayers Tournament, Northwood, at home (54-48). This exceptional performance propelled the team to a comfortable victory against Clifton College (80-23). After T

a good start to the regular season fixtures the team headed up the hill for the St John’s College Tournament, which started well for our team with comfortable victories against Pretoria Boys’ High (20-15), Dominican Convent (31-26) and Sacred Heart (29-22) before losing narrowly to Kearsney College in our final group match (27-31). We followed up the loss to Kearsney with a comfortable victory against Hout Bay (62-19) before another narrow loss to eventual champions St Charles College in the semi-final. The team finished the season with pleasing victories over Treverton College (53-16) and Hilton College (41-30). The fourth quarter which signalled the start of the 2022/2023 season was very successful and the team recorded excellent

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