Water Polo Qld would like to congratule our QAS Men and Women on their recent achievement at the NTC Challenge. Both Articles are below: 

The Queensland Academy of Sport surpassed Western Australian Institute of Sport 6-3 in the gold-medal final of the men's NTC Challenge here today.

Sunday 22nd November:

Bronze medal: NSWIS 17 (M Baird 4, S Cody3, R O’Brien, M Emery,  S McGregor 3, S Nicholson, N Hollis 2, C Eames 2) VICTORIA 7 (J Disken, A O'Lee 2, T Sengstock, S Lewis 2, Booth)
(3-3,5-5,10-6,17-7)
Gold medal: QAS 6 (R Howden 2, D Young, S Robertson, M McCann, B Edwards) WAIS 3 (J Collier, N Redbond, J Swift)
(2-0,3-0,5-1,6-3)

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The Queensland Academy of Sport was confirmed as the NTC Challenge women’s water polo champion at the Australian Institute of Sport Pool here today.

Day 6 – Final Session   

Composite 9 defeated WAIS 6
While the title had been decided the previous evening the battle was still on for the Silver and Bronze medals.

NSWIS & WAIS were locked together on equal points with WAIS holding the advantage over them with the head to head results. So both teams needed to win to secure any chance of grabbing the Silver.

WAIS started the game solidly and went to the 1st break level 2-2.

The 2nd quarter saw the Composite team come out with more aggression and energy and raced to a 6-3 lead by halftime.

WAIS missed 2 penalties which in the end proved costly and the effect of having only 8 field players and a very hard week took its toll in the 2nd half and the Composite was able to maintain that advantage for the remainder of the game.

Greg McFadden (Composite coach) was quoted “The girls played some great polo throughout the week and we proved very competitive which was extremely pleasing for me. Most of these girls didn’t know each other’s names at the start of the week but gelled as a team fantastically”.

“Today’s game was pleasing as apart from the 1st quarter we really executed what we talked about and we also kept 2 of the leading goal scorers to only 2 goals in the game”.

Peter Szilagyi (WAIS coach) stated “Today we just simply run out of petrol. I was very happy with the performance of the team throughout the competition. The girls proved to themselves and everyone else what good players they are”.

“I wish to thank Lea Barta for helping us out through the week”.

Goal scores - COMPOSITE 8 – M. Cabout 3, J. Martin 2, I. Bishop 1,       C. Hewko 1, N. Flacco 1, M. Schmidt 1
Defeated
WAIS 6 – Z. Arancini 2, G. Beadsworth 1, G. Ralph 1, G. Domanic 1,      V. Szilagyi 1

QAS 10 defeated NSWIS 5

QAS already had the title sewn up but I’m sure they were not going to go easy on NSWIS. Not only did NSWIS have the incentive of winning the game to earn the Silver medal but I’m sure there was plenty of pride at stake also.

The QAS were quick out of the blocks and took an early 3-1 lead and continued their dominance winning every quarter 2-1,2-1 and 3-2 for a commanding and well deserved victory 10-5.

The QAS were by far the most consistent team throughout the competition and only lost the 1 game so they were well deserved 2009 Institute Challenge victors.

Aleks Osadchuk (QAS) said: “Once again we played very well as a team.”

“It is always good to win the competition with a great team effort. All the players stepped up and added to our win”.

Andrew Yanitsas (NSWIS assistant coach) stated “In the end a tough game to finish the competition, but the girls kept fighting to the very end. QAS were just too good this week”.

“The girls worked hard throughout the game but once again were unable to execute our opportunities”.

Goal scores - QAS 10 – J. Moran 4, S. Smith 2, B. Knox 2, G. Wikman 1, J. Lee-Lewis 1
Defeated
NSWIS 5 – S. Jones 3, A. Brightwell 1, J. Dessauvagie 1