1st XV weekly report 29-8-09

With a breakthrough win for the 1st XV against Scots everything seems to be coming together at the right end of the season. Replicating the determination shown in Armidale earlier in the season, initial flashes of brilliance gave us an early lead, but it truly came to the forefront with the final minutes played desperately defending our line with a four point margin. The intensity brought to this game holds the team in good stead for the upcoming Grammar contest. In what promises to be the toughest game of the season we now have the confidence coming off this gutsy win to challenge a realistically beatable Grammar.

cheers

Nelson Ridges

13Ds Match Report

The 13Ds won in a thrilling match on an all but fine day. The 13Ds walked out onto the field with the rain pouring. Tries to Lokgei Lee, Howard Gu and Rex Yi in the 1^st half, High went into half time with the score at 19-0. The next half was just as tough as the last with countless tackles on both sides until Pinyan Gao scored. With minutes to go, Scots put in a last effort only to score right before the end of the game. The end score was 24-5. Congratulations boys on a great win.

By: Nathan Wang-Ly

13A’s rugby

The game between SBHS 13A’s and Newington 13B’s was INTENSE.  With 5 tries in the first half and 2 tries in the second half we put up a mighty defence in which Newington couldn’t break. But our conversions were off and we only scored 1 conversions so overall we won 37 to 0. Through that match the forwards learned to use the power of goosh goosh, something Alan Feng uses to unleash his aggroness. The backs perfected their moves with the forwards and the team had a good fun and extremely intense game.

jeffrey lu

13D’s rugby

The 13Ds played Shore in an interesting match. Immediately after kick-off, Pinyan Gao scored a try. Later on, Pinyan scored another 2 tries off the scrum. Waylon Lu scoring off a lineout and Rex Yi scoring off a hard run. One was converted and another just scraped over.

Unfortunately, the Shore Number 8 managed to score 7 tries on his own. He scored 6 times under the post, except when he was stopped short. After a valiant effort, we lost 47-29. Congratulations on a great effort!

14B match report

14Bs 5 lost to Newington 35

The 14Bs showed great improvement this week with much stronger defence then in weeks previous. However the 14Bs let the referees decisions get to them and lost some focus in the game. Despite this the 14Bs showed much improvement and are looking forward to games to come.

Tom Connolly

High 16As vs Newington 16Cs match report

High 16As were prepped for an 8am match against Newington 16Cs. Despite many early warnings beforehand and a lot of effort, many players didn’t manage to arrive early enough for a full warm-up. After hastily going through some set plays, High took to the field against Newington. From the kick off we knew that we were the better drilled and better trained side. High scored 4 unanswered tries in the first half through quick hands and excellent line running by outside centre Nathan Kok. However, High’s careless mistakes eventually lead to a Newington try immediately after half time. Despite this, High rallied and scored two more tries before the end of the game, the final score 34-5. Despite a good win, many issues were highlighted such as poor rucking and vision and the High 16As resolved to strive to train and work together as a team in future games.

Scorers: Shadman Ali, Michael Wong, Nathan Kok, Derek Trang (2) tries, Jonah Petrie 2 con.

Frank Li.

14b Report

14Bs 12 lost to Joeys 31

A large improvement from the 14Bs showed that they could string large amounts of phases together. However in defence the 14Bs allowed joeys through too easily with some poor tackling. The 14Bs showed that they can play good rugby and with steady improvement can win games.

Tom Connolly

15b Report

15b’s lost 24-12.

We started slow conceding 3 early tries but good attack from our forwards resulted in a runaway try for Eric Li right before the half. We scored the 1st try in the second half thanks to some good captaincy and some cleverness by Jesse. But our ill-discipline and a sin-bin resulted in Joeys scoring 2 more tries.

Chris Oei

1st XV

In a great return to our home ground, Mckay 1, the 1^st XV put on a show worthy for our supporters. In a close game against St Josephs 3rds we ultimately went down in the final minutes to lose 19-16. With free-flowing rugby and an emphasis on territory we continued our run into form that sees every week a vast improvement on the last. With every player rising to the occasion of contesting a strong joeys outfit we were unlucky not to finish with the win. From here we will look towards next week where we will be playing the St Josephs 17A’s and continue searching for our deserving victory. Thank you for your continuing support.

Nelson Ridges

13Cs

On Saturday, 15^th August, the 13C’s played against Joeys at Rushcutters bay. Right after the C’s kick-off, Joeys scored a try straight up, followed by a beautiful conversion. Everyone on our team was disappointed, but we didn’t give up. The rest of the first half wasn’t so bad, with High only letting in 4 tries, an improvement compared to last week. We made some good tackles, but we still didn’t score. The second half was worse than the first, with High letting in 7 tries. By the end of the day, the C’s were exhausted and hurting, but we all had fun.

By Alan Qi, C’s Captain

13Ds

The 13Ds played the Joeys, a formidable opponent showing much improvement from their first game. The tackling had improved significantly, and the team never gave up, which eventually led to two tries.

Congratulations on a great effort by the entire team, and an extra congratulations to Pinyan Gao and Bevan Xie who managed to score their first tries of the season.
Overall, a good job.

14as and bs match reports

McKay playing schedule v St Joseph’s 15^th August 2009

15 b’s rugby

15b’s lost to shore 32-7. The team had high confidence coming into this match with a win in the previous match. A poor start by us resulted in an easy try to the opponents. Good defence held their forwards from scoring tries but when the opposition spread the ball out we didn’t have an answer for a while. When we had the ball we could not seize the opportunity. A late try by Eric Li proved only to be a consolation as it was too little too late.

Chris Oei 15b’s captain

13Ds Match Report

Sydney High 13Ds played Shore away. The 13Ds started off well but dropped to a 40 point deficit at half time. Fortunately, the Ds showed vast improvement in the 2nd half making strong tackles and limiting the opposition to 28 points for the 2nd half. Everyone had a great game and enjoyed themselves.

Nathan Wang-Ly

10^th August 2009

First XV report

High 1st XV played an exciting and tightly fought game on the impressive new Shore homeground. In the end we went down 19 – 12, yet showed great improvement from previous encounters, and were able to sustain a competitive attitude for the full game. The skill level was high, and tries were scored by Jonah Petrie and Michael Ambrose.

by Andrew Blomberg

5^th August 2009

Sydney High 14bs 5 lost to Kings 53

The 14bs showed promise in the first half with an early try. However some complacency in defence let kings through too easily. The match showed that with more training the 14bs can be a competitive side in games to come.

5^th August 2009

15b’s result

Sydney high defeated kings 15-12. It was a close match going down to the wire but the winning try by jesse moffat proved to be the difference. We had solid attack and good defence. tries also scored by eric li and tian ling.

chris oei

13d’s result

“On Saturday, 1st of August, High’s 13Ds played The King School at Mckay. Although we were beaten comprehensively (score), as well as being short of 3 players, the rest of the team played strong and never gave up the entire game.”

Nathan Wang-Ly, captain of the 13D team