Megan and Danie de Beer participated at the DMASA Dance Awards over the weekend of August 29.
Being new to this competition, it was a huge surprise when they achieved excellent results. Danie de Beer danced in a trio with his sister, Megan and his mom, Marina. They were awarded a Gold with 83%.
Megan participated in the following, and achieved these results: Modern – Gold 86%; Hip Hop – Gold 84%; Tap – 87% and Open Section – 81%.
Megan was also awarded her Federation Colours for Modern, Hip Hop and Tap, with an overall score of 80% and higher for all these dances. Megan was surprised when they asked her to dance on Sunday to qualify for the DMASA Dance Team. She danced and has made it into the team to travel to Florida in 2016. Congratulations Megan!
Mini Cricket: Our Mini Cricket teams traveled to Newcastle on Saturday to participate in the St Dominic’s Academy Mini Cricket Tournament. The results were as follows: The u/7 boys’ team lost their matches against St Dominic’s and Drakensberg, but they beat Dundee 23 – 5. The u/8 girls also lost two matches and won one. They lost against Hutten Park 52 – 35 and NSPS 32 – 19 and beat Arbor Park 39 – 31. The u/8 boys’ team played like little stars and won all three of their matches. They beat St Dominic’s 55 – 22; Hilldrop 87 – 16 and Dundee 51 – 33. Well done to all the little players who took part and gave it their best.
We would like to thank St Dominic’s for a very enjoyable and well organised tournament.
Cricket: Last Tuesday, the u/11 cricket team played against LMS. The top bowler was Mthobisi Dlamini, with two wickets for eight runs, and the best batsman was Reghan Elliot with 36 runs not out. The boys played their best cricket of the season so far, but unfortunately lost by three runs. The u/13 boys played a cricket match against NRS last Thursday. Our boys scored 119 runs for five, but that was not enough, as NRS beat us by 15 runs. The best batsman was Jaco Keeve who scored 39 runs, and the best bowler was Dian Mengel who took three wickets.
Three of our boys took part in a cricket festival in Newcastle on Friday. At this festival a Northern Natal side was selected. Congratulations to Yusuf Kahn who was selected for the Northern Natal cricket team. This team will play at the Inland u/13 Cricket Festival in Pietermaritzburg, where the inland selection will take place.
Congratulations, Yusuf. We wish you everything of the best!