The Plains Producer, Wednesday November 19, 2008
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sports day
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Sport
Records smashed at sports day
Aleesha Weerts and Tanika Kirchner-Scheer help each other out during the three-legged race.
Balaklava Primary School held their sports day on Friday, November 14 – the junior primary students competing in events on the primary school oval and adventure playground, and the upper primary students on the Balaklava High School gym oval. Students enjoyed throwing, running and jumping events, giving it their all and showing the athletic skills they had learned to their parents. The winning house team was Preston on 596 points, followed by Brighton on 558, Cameron on 469 and Dalkey on 449. Five records were broken this year: Josh Patterson broke the 800 metre
record, running the distance in 2.39.27 seconds, breaking Leigh Michalanney’s time of 2.39.66 in 1992. He also broke Nick Markopoulos’ record in 2002 of 29.46 in 200 metres, running in 29.29 seconds. Callum Michael threw the discus 31.15 metres, beating the record of 29.35 held by Gavin Wilson in 1993. Amanda Marsden broke the discus record held by Cathryn Letton in 1985. Amanda threw the discus 22.33 metres, beating the old record of 22.30 metres. Tayla Williams ran the 200 metres in 40.34 seconds, beating Kimberley Walker’s 1998 time of 40.63.
BARBECUE duty: John Scholz, Tania Heaslip and Helen Barry (background) cook up lunch for student, teachers and parents.
LEFT: Dalkey members support their team mates, back from left: Chelsea Edwards, Eleanor Cunningham, Dylan Weerts, Luke Cunningham, front: Anja Pieterson and Jessica Heaslip. BELOW: Dylan McCrede in action during his shotput event. BELOW RIGHT: Dillon Michael just clears the bar during his high jump event. RIGHT: Amy Langdon and Tayla Williams, of the winning team Preston, proudly hold their banner. Tayla broke the 200m record, running 40.34 seconds.
Wooroora Association
LEFT: Madeleine Karklins lunges forward during her long jump event. BELOW: Clare Mills pops out of the tunnel during the obstacle course event.
A Bowlers Bias
Name: Harold Philp Age: Due for the OBE Played bowls for: 47 years Bowls for: Balaklava Lives: Balaklava Profession: Retired pharmicist Hobbies other than bowls: Community work (Lions, Tidy Towns) Do you prefer to play on lawn or synthetic greens? Lawn Bowls could be improved by: Some players adopting a better sporting attitude Toughest opponent: Doug Taylor – retired Balaklava bowler Other than myself, the association’s best bowler is: Peter Thompson I play bowls with my wife because: She’s good at it Should there be a mini-
mum age limit for bowlers? No Should there be a maximum? No – they know when to retire If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be? Bill Gates What was the last film you saw? Gone With the Wind What is your favourite movie, TV show, song? Watching AFL (Crows) What would you like to see changed in the world? Reduced price of beer When you have to cook a meal for yourself, what is it? BBQ steak If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be? “Philpy”
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