Elkanah House Term 1 highlights

Written by: Jordan Wrights: 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩: Wow, it is sad to think that summer sports for term 1 have already come to an end. However, it truly couldn’t have ended on a higher note – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐲! It was absolutely awesome to see all our summer sports teams come together and compete in an environment filled with “gees” which ensured we ended off the season on a high! Thank you to all the Elkanah House students that came to support and we hope to can carry this over into our winter season! Overall, reflecting back on the season, we had many special moments as a school and I truly cannot wait to see what is in store for our sports for the rest of 2023. I hope everyone has a restful holiday and is as motivated and excited as I am for the upcoming winter season!

Results Cricket:

U15 – Won by 6 wickets, Player of the Match : Trent De Saint Pern
U19 – Won by 58 runs, Player of the Match : Daniel Loggenberg who scored 50 runs

Softball:

U15 – Won 12-2 Player of the Match : Morgan Glanville
2nd Team – Lost
1st Team – Lost 8-5 Player of the Match : Rediel Kasali

Tennis

Won 12-0 Player of the Match : Oratile Moré

Boys 5’s Hockey

2nd Team – Lost 3-2 Player of the Match : Jayden Rohner
1st Team – Lost 3-1 Player of the Match : Dylan Stone

Girls 5’s Hockey

U14 – Won 8-1 Player of the Match : Annabel Clack
U16 – Won 10-0 Player of the Match : Ami Coue
2nd Team – Won 3-0 Player of the Match : Havana Skinner
1st Team – Drew 1-1 Player of the Match : Jemma du Plessis

Chess

Snr team won 5-2 Player of the Match : Adam Wilcock
Jnr team played against snr B team lost 6-1 Player of the Match : Josh Koetzer
Congratulations to everyone that took part!

Congratulations to the swimmers who competed in the first High School Invitational Gala of the season. The great performance in the pool was evidence of all the hard work, dedication and commitment from the team – Well done! Final results were as follows:

Elkanah House placed 2nd overall
Our boys team placed 1st
Our girls team placed 3rd

Thank you to all who came out to support our swimmers!

𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙮 : 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙 “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙡” 𝘿𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙩, 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 On Friday the 3rd of February history was made. The students of Elkanah came together as one to get behind the water polo teams, who were set to face off against Paarl Boys. All was set with War cries going from the morning all through the day until the final match between the two 1st Teams. The student section was on fire throughout the game as the blue wall jumped up and down. Which boosted our team to the WIN of the year. Never have I ever seen GEES like that.

The Elkanah House u9s took part in a Cricket Night Festival at Rallim Prep. The team played three games and won all three! A fantastic time was had by the players, parents and coaches! We look forward to many more fun nights under the lights. Congratulations U9s!

U9 CRICKET

𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙮 : 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙓𝙄. 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 .We had a great win last week playing against Melkbos high. We were sent to field first as they wanted to set a total for us to chase. We pulled together and bowled them out for a total of 127 runs. We required 128 runs to win the game. The batting did not start as we wanted with our opening 3 batsman falling early but our middle order pulled together and scored majority of the runs in our chase. It came down to the final over of the match with a boundary shot to win the game.

Athletics Congratulations to the following athletes who achieved their district colors:

Mikayla Franz (2nd in U11 Girls High Jump)
Tyde Sim (1st in U11 Boys Long Jump)
Isabelle Kent (1st in U11 Girls 1200m & 4th U11 Girls 70m Hurdles)
Jessie Lambrecht (2nd in Girls U12 100m & 3rd in U12 Girls 150m Hurdles)
Tyler Kent (3rd in U13 Boys 200m Hurdles)

By qualifying for WP Champs, these athletes are considered amongst the Top16 athletes in the Province in their respective events which is a remarkable achievement. These five athletes will be representing Metro North against athletes from three other Metro’s (South, East & Central) as part of the Western Province Primary Schools Athletics Championships on Friday 3 March 2023 at Dal Josaphat Stadium in Paarl. We wish these star athletes the best of luck for this tremendous opportunity to showcase their talents on the track.