May 2005

SPORTS RESULTS : 5,6 & 7 May 2005

HOCKEY vs Plumtree

1st  :                  W            3 - 2

2nd :                  W            8 - 0

3rd :                  W            6 - 1

U16 A :              W            8 - 0    

U15 A :              W            3 - 0

U14 A :              W            7 - 0
 

 RUGBY

14 B :            vs Mzingwane (h)             W            50 - 0

U14 A :            vs Lomagundi (h)           W            38 - 0

U15 A :            vs Lomagundi (h)           W            19 - 0

U16 B :            vs Mzingwane (h)           W            15 - 7

U16 A :            vs Lomagundi (h)           W            64 – 0

4th XV :            vs Mzingwane (h)          W            29 - 10

2nd XV :            vs Lomagundi (a)         W            48 - 7

1st XV :            vs Lomagundi (a)          W            35 - 11
 

 SOCCER

1st :                   vs Petra (h)                       W            1 - 0

2nd :                  vs Plumtree (h)                  L            0 - 3

U16 :                  vs CBC (a)                       W            4 - 1

U15 :                  vs CBC (a)                        L            0 - 3

The second half of term was, as most of you will know, somewhat truncated by the unexpected alteration to the term dates. The result of that was the cancellation of the Falcon Inter Schools Athletics meeting which was sad because it was likely to involve, for the first time in a while, all our main athletics rivals such as Plumtree, CBC and Milton, and we stood a good chance of winning it! Obviously we shall never know now. What we do know is that we proved convincing winners of the Inter Schools Relays at CBC, an event we normally contrive to do badly in. This year our performance was most encouraging.

The Inter House Relays had proved a very competitive event to start the season off. In the end Chubb were worthy winners but there was very little between top and bottom. Much the same could be said of the Founders Day meeting. Three if not four Houses were at some stage in first position although Chubb, the favourites were eventually there when it counted most! Time slips by and I should really have written this up a couple of weeks ago so now my memory will let me down and I don’t have individual results to hand. What I can tell you is that Tatenda Dube of Oates was the Victor Ludorum. Robbie du Plessis (C), the athletics captain, was also successful in that U20 age-group. At U18 I do recall that Nigel Mubvumbi (F) and Keith Wale (O) did very well. There were two or three records broken on the day but the only one I can remember was Keith’s victory time in the 3000m. Remarkably all four 3000m races were won by Oates boys (Tom Randell, Tshepo Ramoleko and Tendai Mudzimu being the other three).

After being rained off last year – no danger of that in 2005 – the Standards competition took place again this year and as the person in charge of running that I can give you the full results and details as follows :

Very sadly the 1st team tour to Dubai had to be called off. Nothing to do with Falcon or even Zimbabwe but something to do with the teams from the UK who had problems with their travel arrangements, I believe, and were unable to attend making the whole international festival unviable and so the organisers pulled the plug on it. A great disappointment. As I write the team are in action at the Cottco Festival at Prince Edward. I will try to get a full report on that early in the new term.

At the start of the holidays there were Inter Provincial Tournaments held for the U14, U16 and U19 age-groups. The following Falcon boys were involved :

U19 : Paul Trethowan, Daniel Landman, Jason Graham, Barry Stewart; sadly Graham Swanepoel had to withdraw due to an injury picked up on Founders Day. The Matabeleland manager was happy with each of them but particularly commended Trethowan and Landman

U16 : Jack Randle; Tapiwa Zindoga was a non-travelling reserve

U14 : Godwill Mamhiyo (captain), Corey van Rensburg, Jonathan Brown, Toch Enwerem, Michael Macintosh and Grant Bydawell was a non-travelling reserve. Again I do not have a lot of information about the cricket but Enwerem scored a 50 on one of the days and Mamhiyo was also commended to me, not least for his captaincy.

Finally congratulations to Sean Williams on his selection for the Zimbabwe cricket team on the recent tour of South Africa. He becomes the 17th (18th if you include Andy Blignaut who left Falcon in Form 3) Falcon Old Boy to represent the full Zimbabwe team, albeit – for the moment – ‘only’ in a One Day International.

SPORTS REPORT

Richard Harrison

30 January  2005

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