Best Performance U14 Connor Maxwell
U15 James Benskin
U16 Trent Dungey
U17 Jarred Visser & Roy Kircher
Open Ryan Symington
Primary School Best Performance: Tyson Andrews
Runner Up: James Matthews
Junior Victor Ludorum (U14 & U15) Shared: Connor Maxwell & James Benskin
Senior Victor Ludorum (U16, U17 & Open): Ryan Symington
Runner up: Trent Dungey
Our sincere thanks to all those who helped on the night.
Northwood 1st team waterpolo played Clifton on Monday 16 February as the fixture for the weekend had been postponed due to the Northwood team being on Tour in the Eastern Cape for the Vides waterpolo tournament.
The Northwood team has been gaining confidence after their recent tours to the Grey Bloem Itec Waterpolo tournamnet and the Vides waterpolo tournament hosted in Bloemfontein and East London respectively.
The match was played at Clifton and started well with good attacking opportunities being created on both ends of the pool. Clifton opened the scoring to lead 1-0 after 2 minutes, Northwood replied on the next attack. Both teams exchanged blows and at the end of the 1st chukka the score was tied at 2 all.
The second Chukka was the ultimate game changer again, Clifton converted first to take the lead but during the Chukka Northwood put 3 consecutive goals in while Clifton ended strong with the score 5-4 in favour of Northwood.
The 3rd chukka was even at 1 a piece with tactical time outs being called on both sides. Northwood lead going into the 4th Chukka 6-5.
In the last chukka Northwood showed composure by slowing down the game and running down the clock. Clifton converted to take us to 6 all. Again the young Northwood team fought tenaciously for every scrap and took the score to 8-6 with 1 min 30 seconds on the clock. Clifton pushed us all the way to the end and were rewarded with a goal in the dying seconds to pull the score to 8-7 in favour of Northwood.
Goal scorers for Northwood were:
Justin Snyman 2 goals
Mark Fourche 2 goals
Ryan Symington 2 goals
Criag Van Leeuwen 1 goal
Stratten Kennedy 1 goal
The coach of Northwood Waterpolo, Mr Hadyn Skinner, says “This is a remarkable victory for Northwood as after my appointment at Northwood in 2014 our 1st game was against Clifton where we lost 23-2. The team has been hard at work and will continue to push moving forward. We respect the Clifton waterpolo team immensely, we were just lucky to have our day yesterday”.
Opposition :Clifton
Date :14th February
Venue :Northwood
Score :Northwood 56 Clifton 23
Coach :Nhlanhla Bulose
It was a slow start for both teams in the first quarter resulting in an 8 point a piece score. The overcast and windy conditions got to the better of us, so our shooting was not accurate. An epic defence lead by captain Nkanyiso Ntombela in the second and third quarter reduced Clifton from scoring and we kept the ball very well. Quick passing and penetration resulted in us scoring frequently and Clifton had no option but to foul often. There were some 3 pointers by Jason Daniels that added a little pressure on the score for the visiters who also had no answers to the aggression showed by Northwood.
1st 120/5
Clifton 203
Match drawn
2nd 198 (Kyle Reawling 68:Brent Philips 41)
Thomas More 1st 197 (Joshi Paritosh 3/26
NORTHWOOD WON BY 1 RUN.
3rd 93/10
Clifton 2nd 136/6 (Angelo Chen 3/18)
Northwood lost by 43 runs
4th 100 (Zohn Ludic 37)
Clifton 2nd 162 ( Justin Boulle 4/24)
Northwood lost by 63 runs
16A 192/3 (Shahied Cariem 50:David Zvidzai 37:Alvin Chiradza 37no.:Ross Venning-Pridham 59no.)
Clifton 190/10 ( Alvin Chiradza 3/61:Shahied Cariem 3/38)
Northwood won by 7 wickets
16B 109/5
Clifton 108/8
Northwood win by 5 wickets
16C 27
Westville 27/1
Northwood lost by 9 wickets
15A 140/10 (Wander Mtolo 38)
Clifton 142/5 (Wonder Mtolo 3/32)
Northwood lost by 5 runs
15B 92/10
Thomas More 115/10 (Liven Singh5/32)
Northwood lost by 23 runs
15C 143/2 (Jarrod Peters 51:Matthew Pietersen 35no.:Cameron Souchan 38no.)
Clifton 15B 144/4 ( Kabelo Thika 3/25)
Northwood lost bt 6 wickets
15D 119/5 ( T Hancke 30)
Thomas More 120/4
Northwood lost by 6 wkts.
14A 120/7 ( Thomas Andrews 60)
Clifton 175/10
Match drawn
14B 64/10
Thomas More 14A 70/10 ( G Kaiser 4/11)
Northwood lost by lost by 6 runs
14C 96/7
Clifton 14B 77/9 (Joel Chininga 4/17)
Northwood won by 19 runs
14D 134/4
Thomas More 14B 143/5
Northwood lost by 9 runs
14E Northwood 59/8
Westville 109/3
Northwood lost by 49 runs
14F 99/4 ( J Slabbert 32)
Westville 90
Northwood won by 9 runs
Last week, Tuesday 10th and Thursday 12th of February saw Northwood host our annual Open Day for grade 7 boys from surrounding primary schools, as well as prospective parents at our Open Evening.
The grade 7 boys were shown around the school’s facilities to see all that we had to offer, and were also able to participate in a typical Northwood tradition; war cry practice!
For our Open Evening, each subject set up a display stand which gave parents a chance to see some of the work our students do on a daily basis, as well as chat to the teachers about Northwood’s academic programme, and what to expect when their boys arrive in 2016.
Thank you to the North Durban Community for showing your support for Northwood, we are proud to be the boys high school of choice for our area!
Northwood lost to Reddam 6-7, Beat St Peters College 6-5, Lost to Grey PE 3-4., Beat Wynberg 9-8 to go through to quarterfinal of the tournament. Lost to DHS 6-7 in quarters, lost to Grey PE 6-7 and then beat Affies 4-3 to finish 7th out of 16 in the tournament.
