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Cricket Our XI cricket team took in the annual ISSA Cricket Festival held over the weekend. This year Whitestone, from Bulawayo hosted the Festival. They did an excellent job hosting us. All our games were against South African opposition who are a year older than all our boys. Our 1st game was against Pridwin from Johannesburg in a declaration match. St. John’s 82 all out (1st innings) Luca Spagnuolo 18 run; Sebastian Sarpo 18 runs. Pridwin 165 all out (1st Innings) Sean Reilly 4 for 45; James Manning 2 for 22 St. John’s 26 for 3 (2nd Innings) Match drawn.   [...]

Cricket Due to some rainy weather we had some cricket fixtures that had to be cancelled this past week. Fortunately, we did manage to play some matches away at Ruzawi over the weekend, but home matches were cancelled.   4th Team vs Ruzawi 4th Team Ruzawi 44 all out Cameron McNab 3 for 8 runs St. John’s 49 for 6 Tadiswa Munaiwa 15 run, James Torr 15 runs St. John’s won by 4 wickets   Colts C vs Ruzawi Colts C St. John’s 85 for 6 Noah Mitchell 33 runs Ruzawi 65 for 5 St. John’s won by 20 runs   [...]

Cricket 1st Team & Colts A played their 1st game of the season against St. Aidan’s from Chitungwiza. 1st Team Result was: St. Aidan’s 90 all out Sebastain Sarpo 3 for 3; Sean Price 2 for 16 St. John’s 89 for 8 Sean Reilly 20 not out St. John’s lost by 1 run Colts A result: St. John’s 129 all out Peter Sanders 40 runs; Brendan Kalonga 26 runs St. Aidan’s 132 for 8 Theo Cochrane 3 for 30 St. John’s lost by 2 wickets   Archery Our archers went to Arundel for their 1st shoot of the season.  The boys [...]

Cricket 1st Team vs Twin Rivers Twin Rivers 76 all out St John’s 77 for 8 St John’s won by 2 wickets   2nd Team vs Gateway 1st Team Gateway 101 for 9 St John’s 93 for 6 Peer Lisba 27 runs St John’s lost by 8 runs   3rd Team vs Lusitania 1st Team Lucitania 23 all out Harry Johnson 5 for 10 St John’s 24 for 3 St John’s won by 7 wickets   4th Team vs Twin River 2nd Team St John’s 120 for 6 Max Oelfke 34 not out Twin Rivers 121 for 9 Max Oelfke 3 [...]

Cricket 1st Team played against Hartmann House Hartmann 60 all out Connor Lovatt 3 for 1 St John’s 63 for 3 St John’s won by 7 wickets   2nd Team vs Hartmann House 2nd Team St John’s 124 for 2 Luca Spagnuolo 51 runs Lee Chigumba 40 runs Hartmann House 114 for 5 St John’s won by 10 runs.   3rd Team vs Hartmann House 3rd Team Hartmann 72 for 8 Sebastian Sarpo 4 for 11 St John’s 73 for 3 Harry Johnson 37 not out St John’s won by 7 wickets   Colts A vs Hartmann House St John’s 66 [...]

Cricket 1st Team played against Lilfordia. Lilfordia 96 for 8 in 20 over Ethan Ridley 3 for 20 Daniel Erasmus 2 for 20 St. John’s 97 for 2 Connor Lovatt 63 runs St. John’s won by 8 wickets.   3rd Team vs Lilfordia 2nd Team St. John’s 156 for 5 in 20 overs Harry Johnson 85 runs Hayden Croxford 43 runs Lilfordia 156 for 9 Dishant Mangtani 4 for 12 St. John’s Lost by 1 wicket.   2nd Team vs Heritage 1st Team Heritage 58 all out James Manning 4 for 3 St. John’s 59 for 2 Aurick Bose 29 not [...]

Cricket 1st Team played against Westridge 1st Team. Westridge 72 all out Ethan Ridley 4 for 12 Sean Price 3 for 7 St. John’s 73for 0 Ethan Cocksedge 39* runs Khule Nduku 21* runs St. John’s won by 10 wickets   1st Team vs Ruzawi St. John’s 118 all out Ethan Ridley 43 runs Ruzawi 119 for 1 Daniel Erasmus 1 for 19 St. John’s Lost by 9 wickets   2nd team vs Alex Park 1st Team Alex Park 94 all out St. John’s 96 for 1 Aurick Bose 26 run James Manning 23 runs St. John’s won by 9 wickets [...]

Cricket Our 1st Team played against St. Aiden. The results were: St. Aiden 116 all out St. John’s 118 for 4 Connor Lovatt 42 runs Khule Nduku 23 runs St. John’s won by 6 wickets 1st Team vs Zengeza Zengeza 108 for 9 Rory Honey 2 for 18 Samuel Dawson 2 for 7 St. John’s 109 for 4 Connor Lovatt 51 runs St. John’s won by 6 wickets 1st Team took part in the Lilfordia Day/Night cricket tournament. Game 1: vs Lilfodia St. John’s 91 for 3 Rory Honey 36 runs Lilfordia 82 for 7 Daniel Erasmus 3 for 4 Sean [...]