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Rowville Secondary College Term 2 Issue 7 20 The Rowville Times Friday, May 25, 2012 Jeff van de Steenoven RSC Parent Pizzey Cup 2012 Rowville Secondary College students, Michael Best and Alex van de Steenoven recently participated in a successful School Sports Victorian Pizzey Cup team, which finished 3rd at the 2012 National competition. The Bronze medal performance also saw 4 of the team selected the All Australian team, one of which was Michael Best (see photo). As mentioned in the previous article, this was Michael's second Pizzey cup team and he made the most of it. Alex was on his first trip and also had a very strong showing. Both boys also did very well in the Tennis Australia Cup singles tournament, losing in the round of 16. The 2012 Victorian Pizzey Cup team travelled to Toowoomba on the 28th April and were greeted with a torrential downpour. It was raining when the team arrived at Brisbane airport on the bus trip to their accommodation. No practice was possible in the afternoon, and the first day's play was washed out. The competition was comprised of 7 teams playing a total of 6 matches each. Team Vic opened their account against South Australia with a strong 17-1 win. Tasmania were next, and the Vics went one better with a 18-0 win. ACT were the Vics third opponent, and were duly handed a 17 -1 result as the Victorian team started to gather some momentum. The match versus QLD was a close affair, however the Vics were on the wrong end of a few key matches and went down 13-5 to the eventual silver medallists. Regrouping the Vics showed their class with a 16-2 win over a well-credentialed WA team. The final round saw the Vics pitted against the strong NSW team, who had won on the 3 previous occasions. The Vics were level after the Doubles and the Mixed doubles matches, and needed to win the majority of the singles to cause an upset. It was not to be and NSW duly won the match and the Cup with a well deserved 12-6, but Team Vic was far from disgraced. In the Pizzey cup there are 12 singles matches (6 girls and 6 boys) and 4 doubles matches ( 2 girls and 2 boys) and 2 mixed doubles matches, a total of 18. Michael won 2 of 4 singles matches, and won 3 of 4 in the doubles & mixed doubles matches. Alex won 4 of 5 in the singles and 5 of 6 in the doubles & mixed doubles matches.
Rowville Secondary College Term 2 Issue 7 21 The Rowville Times Friday, May 25, 2012 Gary Gilbert Senior Team Leader (West) Rowville has had an amazing start to the year with its Boys Tennis team boasting a great deal of success. Boys Tennis Report time! Alex and Nathan were undefeated again despite the weather. S.E.D.A (another tennis sports program) was the toughest opponent, yet the boys earned their win 4 – 2. destroyed in the final when he came up against quality opposition. Michael played the best game I’d seen in the tournament, although lost it 6 – 4. Knox District (played at Knox) was an easy win for the boys. Michael Best, Alex van de Steenoven and Nathan Ponton did not lose a set, in fact they lost very few games. Eastern Zone (played at Ringwood) presented us with tough, windy conditions. Alex and Nathan again did not lose a set. Box Hill who have a specialist tennis program was our toughest opponent but we still managed to beat them 4 – 2. Eastern Conference finals (played at Traralgon) brought tough conditions again. It was extremely windy this State finals had Rowville as one of the last 8 schools of over 400, we played Ballarat Secondary College (won 6 – 0), Viewbank College (won 4 -2), Catholic College Wodonga (won 4 – 2) and made the grand final against Maribyrnong (a specialist tennis college). They had 8 strong players and we lost 4 – 1 (but expected to win the other doubles game). Alex again won all sets and remained undefeated for the tournament. Nathan was injured and hopping. He still won his first singles game and one doubles game for the day but was Ha Park, a year 8 student did extremely well for the day winning 3 of his 4 singles games. He was outclassed in the final. James Makrodimitris and Mitch Atherton, our #5 and #6, both had the opportunity to play a singles and doubles game and did their best. A sensational effort against quality opposition. I’m really proud of the boys and their effort. It was a tremendous shame we could not have a real crack at them at full strength without injuries.
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