Weekend Sports Roundup – Hail the hat-trick hero
Hat-trick heroes
Hat-tricks are a rarity in cricket, and double hat-tricks (four wickets in four balls) are almost unheard of, but Trinity bowlers achieved both feats in one day. And there was very nearly a third!
Nolan Grantham (7St) achieved the next-to-impossible for the victorious 7As by taking four wickets in four balls. To put this into context only one player, Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, has achieved this in international cricket.
Matthew Nurcombe (10Sc) captured a hat-trick for the 10As, finishing with the impressive figures of 3-9, although his team lost to Waverley by just two runs.
Harry McLean (12Yo) almost emulated both of these feats for the third XI. He took two wickets in two balls, bowled a wide, then took another two wickets in two balls.
So he bagged four wickets in five balls, just missing out on a hat-trick and a double hat-trick. Which would have meant three Trinity hat-tricks in one day, two of them doubles.
Gasps of astonishment were not confined to the cricket fields.
Callum Charnock’s (10We) 10B basketball team was trailing by one point with seven seconds remaining when he drained a three-pointer to give his side a memorable victory.
Tennis and chess teams both enjoyed dominant days.
The tennis players won 16 out of 17 ties against Waverley, with the Open and Year 8 teams not dropping a set.
The chess teams took 11.5 points out of a possible 12.
Trinity’s basketballers won 32 matches against 27 losses, led by the firsts and seconds, with special mention going to the School’s least experienced teams, the 7Is, 7Js, and 7Ks, who all won against higher graded sides from Knox and Shore.
The volleyball firsts and seconds both had byes but the thirds and fourths recorded 3-0 wins over Knox and St Aloysius respectively.
The water polo firsts finished strongly to beat Scots 17-12 but it was one of just three victories alongside two draws and five losses.
The cricket firsts and seconds both lost to Waverley though the 8Bs and 7As were both winners.
Touch football had a 5-7 win-loss record while table tennis went down 0-6 to Kings.
