Weekend Sports Roundup – Cross country winners and reps galore

Two Trinity students have won titles at the NSW cross country championships while a further 18 gained representative honours in rugby, AFL, cross country, and volleyball.

In a week when most regular sporting fixtures were washed out, Patrick McMahon (8Du) came first in the U15 event at the cross country titles in Dubbo and Matthew McLachlan (11WJ) won the U17 division, extending his unbeaten run at state championships to five in a row.

Max Meagher (12Hi) gained selection in the CAS Opens rugby first team, Marcus Mastro (11Mu), Brock Prideaux (11WH), and Patrick Thomson (11Sc) made the seconds, and Jozef Cluff (10Ar) and Daniel Villate-Gallagher were chosen in the U16s.

Callum Padman (11Hi) made the CAS Opens AFL team and Peter Vithoulka (11WH) was selected in the NSW All Schools volleyball merit team.

Ten students made CAS cross country teams – Rhys Olson-Keating (11Ta) and Alex Christian (11He) in the open division, Matt McLachlan (11WJ), Kobe Stewart (10Yo), Samuel Oliver (9St), Daniel Simpson (9Du), Joshua Lubke (10Ta), James Hendry (10Ta), and Carlo Furlan (10Du) in the intermediates, and Sebastian Sentas (8Ar) in the juniors.

Old boy Caiden Cleary, meanwhile, made his AFL senior debut for the ladder-leading Sydney Swans in their strong win over cross-town rivals GWS.

Trinity teams had a tough time of things in the weekend sport that survived the wet weather.

Rugby teams lost 4-9 against Knox, with the firsts and seconds both going down 5-33 and 15-19.

Football won one and lost six, with the firsts match abandoned at half time.

AFL came out 1-1, with the firsts defeating Cranbrook 69-27.

Volleyball went down 5-6, the firsts and seconds both losing 1-2.

In the Barker cross country invitational at St Ives the Opens came fourth, the U16s second, and the U14s seventh.

The chess seniors, intermediates, and juniors all drew 2-2.