ladder , with excellent performances against fancied opponents Haileybury and Brighton Grammar School . Our Captain , Harry Jones , excelled throughout the year and demonstrated strong leadership skills , performing well with bat and ball . We had two centurions , with Ed Winneke ( Year 11 ) and Tom Farrer ( Year 12 ) raising the bat with 110 versus Brighton and 100 against St Kevin ’ s respectively . Adam Rixon ( Year 11 ) took a game-changing six wickets against Carey to deliver a monumental comeback victory , as Scotch took Carey ’ s final seven wickets for 34 runs .
Our Swimming squad enjoyed another high-end finish , with a third overall placing at the APS finals . Eric He ( Year 11 ) was a standout performer with four podium finishes in individual events across the division A open and under 17 age groups . Alex Haigh ( Year 10 ) impressively won our only individual A division event in the under 16 50m backstroke .
Scotch had four relay wins on the night , winning the under 16 200m medley relay A division event , and also three under 14 relays in the 200m backstroke , breaststroke and butterfly relay A division events . The Diving team finished sixth , with strong performances by Anders Salmon of Year 9 ( fourth in the under 15 B division and fifth in the under 16A division ).
Our rowers enjoyed a highly successful season , and should be commended on their efforts . The six-day camp at the beginning of the year certainly provided a strong platform for this program .
The 1st Crew performed extremely well in the lead-up to the APS Head of the River , winning the Scotch Mercantile , Wendouree Ballarat and Nagambie Regattas , and finishing third in both the NSW and Victorian State Championships .
In the Head of the River our crew struggled to produce its best in the heats , and finished fourth in the final after a tough draw allocation . Impressively , the 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th Crews all won their A division finals . Our Year 9A Quad also won its A division final , and was one of many crews at this age group which performed strongly . The 1 st Tennis team finished seventh . The squad comprised several Year 12 boys and many underage players . Ashton Coster and Lewis Murray were standout performers for the team , and despite both only being in Year 9 , played at number one and two . A highlight of the season was the final game against St Kevin ’ s , where the team won in a tight contest nine sets to seven .
The Orienteering squad enjoyed its most successful season in recent years , winning back the Roger Slade Trophy , amassing 3058 points to Camberwell Grammar School ’ s 1770 points . The Sailing team finished fifth and sixth in the 1st and 2nd Crews at the Victorian State Championships . Both squads performed well into the finals but unfortunately bowed out at the preliminary final stage .
Following the final round in the Victorian Interschool Cycling series at Kew Boulevard , our cyclists finished fifth overall in the
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