St Mary’s Wellington in State Touch top six
THE story of St Mary’s “Wolf Pack” nursery continues. Last week the team finished sixth in NSW All Schools, a remarkable achievement for a very young team.
For the third straight year, St Mary’s had earned their place in the NSW Touch Football Year 7/8 State Finals after impressive wins in the Regionals.
The event almost cancelled due to bushfire smoke hovering over Sydney but went ahead with 41 teams representing 33 schools, including Kingscliff High School and Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar from the Far North Coast, Guyra High School from the North West of the state, and Kildare from southern as well as a number of metropolitan teams from Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.
“St Mary’s team went to work early, defeating Holy Spirit Bellambi 1-0 then Oxford Grammar School 3-1 in a great display of running touch. The girls then had a tight 2-2 draw against the strong Hunter Sports High School and finished their last pool match with a 4-2 win over Kingscliff which meant they undefeated leaders in Pool A,” teacher Alistaire Thompson proclaimed proudly.
“Already the team had far exceeded their own expectations by a huge margin by making the quarter finals. The girls then took on another specialist group from Hills Sports High School. In a match that had almost everything, our St Mary’s Wolf Pack finished extremely strongly. They went down fighting 3-2. Hills finished runners-up in the grand final against Mackellar, beaten 3-2 in extra time drop off,” Alistaire told