Tennis The Kearsney College tennis team has once again com pleted a very successful year.The Kearsney tennis team must surely rank amongstthe top4schoolsteams in the country. Highlights of 1994: * Winning all three Maritzburg Trophies (Denness, Witness,Bonnefin). * Beating Glenwood by 7 matches to 2,thus emerging as the top school in Natal. * Unbeaten at Natal Schools Beacon Week, despite playing without the top 2 players. * Two players represented Natal in the Schools Tennis Teams. * Ryan Baxter winning all 4 School Championships (U18 singles, U15 singles, U18 and U15 doubles ti tles). * The visit by Margaret Court(winner of 64 Grand Slam Titles)to coach and play with the boys. * The very successful tour to the Transvaal. * Rowan Groom and Ryan Baxter receiving Honours awards for tennis. On a sad note,Damien left Kearsney College at the start of the third term to take up a scholarship at John Neweombe's Tennis Ranch in Texas. He will not only be missed as a tennis player but also as a pleasant,hon est, enthusiastic and high spirited boy who got on ex tremely well with all the Kearsney boys. We all wish him well for the future and hope that his dreams of being one of the best tennis players in the world come true. DURBAN AND DISTRICTS LEAGUE 1st Team Results: Beat Westville Beat Northwood Beat Kloof Beat Glenwood Beat DHS Beat Pinetown 6 matches to 3 9 matches to0 9 matches to0 7 matches to 2 7 matches to 2 9 matches to 0. 2nd Team Results: Beat Westville Beat Northwood Beat Kloof Beat Glenwood Beat DHS Beat Pinetown 5 matches to 4 8 matches to 1 7 matches to 2 5 matches to 5 9 matches to0 9 matches to0 MARITZBURG LEAGUE U18LEAGUE 1 St Team-Winners of Denness Trophy(played 9-won 9) 2nd Team-Winners of the 'A'league(played 7-won 7) 3rd Team -4th in the 'A'league(played 7- won 4) U15LEAGUE U15A Team-Winners of the Witness Trophy(played 8- won 8) U15B Team-Runner-up Witness Trophy(played 8-won 7) U15C Team-4th in the 'A'League(played 8- won 5) U13LEAGUE U13A Team-Winners of Bonnefin Trophy(played 7-won 7) U13B Team-Runner-up of Bonnefin Trophy(played 7-won 6) U13C Team-5th in the 'A'League(played 7-won 2) TENNIS TOUR-JOHANNESBURG APRIL 1994 The tour was very successful. We won 4 out of the 5 matches played.Welost narrowly to Jeppe Boys(on this occasion playing withoutDamien Roberts)but had very good wins over St Stithians and Northcliff. NATAL REPRESENTATION Natal Schools A Team-Ryan Baxter Natal Schools B Team-Darren Clark Natal Schools U15 A Team -Ryan Baxter and Darren Clark SCHOOLAWARDS Honours-Rowan Groom and Ryan Baxter Merit-Darren Clark INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS Kearsney College was well represented at tournaments played in CapeTown,Johannesburg,Bloemfontein,Pre toria and Durban.Afew Kearsney players have earned national rankings by doing well in these various tourna ments, namely: Ryan Baxter, Darren Clark and Gareth Collingwood(all U16),Tim Molloy,John Cole-Edwards and Ryan Hoskings (all U14). SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS U18 Singles Winner Ryan Baxter Runner-up Rowan Groom U18 Doubles Winner Rowan Groom and Ryan Baxter Runner-up Darren Clark and Gareth Collingwood U15 Singles Winner Ryan Baxter Runner-up Tim Molloy U15 Doubles Winner Ryan Baxter and Darren Clark Runner-up Tim Molloy and Ryan Hoskings TOUR TO THE USA AND UK- MARCH/APRIL 1995 There is a great deal of excitement amongst the top 10 Kearsney players as they prepare for the first bit of in ternational experience.Theteam will be playing against sehools and clubs located in Texas, Florida and Eng land. I would like to thank Rob Candotti and Ken van Blerk for their help and assistanee, and a big thank you to Joseph Mnyandu for transporting the boys to the Natal squads at Westridge Park. ANTHONY WILLOWS 32 SS^- J. Cole-Edwards 1^ R.Groom i- { L % ■ yj-s . Uh It- ^ R.Hoskings T. Molloy 108 Kearsney Chronicle 1994
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