Congratulations on a solid effort by the whole team today. Going into the game with limited players, our confidence was low however this did not last. The girls focused on their tackles, keeping their positions in the line and playing with no fear. A big thank you to our assistant coaches, Preston, Brody and Jerome who ran the girls through a great warmup and would always provide strategies for improvement. Maria put her body on the line time after time and displayed some amazing tackling techniques as did Mia and Erica who were our dual MVP’s of the match. Amelia scored two tries, much to her surprise and the rest of the team played their best game of the season. A big thank you to Mrs Taateo who was a great support and provided us with water bottles each week. Ms Heath and I are very proud of the team and would like to thank everyone for always being respectful, a pleasure to work with and being a great bunch of girls to coach.

Fantastic result for the College and the team. I could not be more proud of the team’s performance today. In tough conditions it was by no means our prettiest performance but it was certainly our grittiest. Everyone left it all on the field. If you could spare me a moment to paint a picture. We went into half-time up 4-3, playing our absolute heart out. Early in the second half we went down 4-7 with a couple of great plays from Magdalene. We needed fresh legs so Rishabh and Jacob Latu came on and turned momentum around. We wrestled back to be up 8-7 with 7 minutes to go. Josh Manson and Smriti went on and defended for 7 nail biting minutes to hold the lead under a relentless assault from Magdalene. It was an absolutely incredible effort from the team. Congratulations. Season MVPs: Hudson Warren, and Chelsea Herborn.

After coming into the finals finishing at the top of the table, the boys were keen and eager to finish off the competition with a win. There was certainly a lot of excitement in the air and the boys were pumped to overcome the only team that MCCC lost to in competition. The game started off strong, and it was a tight contest with a lot of energy from both teams. After just a few minutes, however, SBCC broke the deadlock and snuck in a goal past Brayden after some lacklustre defending. The boys re-grouped and showed great determination and resilience by adapting to a more attacking formation; they created some good scoring opportunities but were unable to convert them into goals. Despite their best efforts, SBCC's defence remained strong and took advantage of our attacking style and managed to score a few more goals before the end of the half. Despite an encouraging half-time talk, SBCC held onto their lead until the final whistle. It was a disappointing end to an otherwise outstanding season for MCCC, but they can hold their heads high knowing they gave it their all. A special shout out to Max’s performance who displayed high levels of effort and work rate in both defence and attack.