Academia vs Augustineum : the vigorous clash

ELIZABETH JOSEPH
Jemimah Mangaba & Faith Horases

The classic clash is an annual event and academia has been playing against Augustineum; their rivals for 11 years. The match was played at the netball field of Academia on Friday; the 28th of June 2019 and was sponsored by FNB Namibia.

It was a very intense yet fair match that had all spectators at the edge of their seats. In every round, Academia was ahead with 2points, in the first quarter the score was 6 to 4 in favour of the host school and so it continued. One could tell hat the players knew exactly what they were doing and what they were trying to accomplish. In the last quarter, the game ended with a close score of 14 to 12.

One of the spectators, the principal, Mr H. Rust says that the netball girls won because of their discipline in the game. One of the team members, Unombuiro veii, also the goal shooter says, ‘’the game was awesome and fun. It was a bit challenging where I had to score and got distracted by the loud and intimidating crowd.’’ The player of the match, Halee Tjiseseta says that being player of the match helped her gain more self confidence within herself and it showed her that she is a good netball player and her love for netball grew even more. We could tell that she really has passion for the sport.

Academia and Augustineum have been long term rivals. They have played against each other for 11 years and out of all those years, Academia won 7 times. Zinzi the current coach was also a netball player during her years here at Academia and she has been coaching for three years and ever since her coaching began, Academia has been winning consecutively. Miss Coetzee has been part of the team as the netball teacher since 2010 and she has been with them throughout their victorious moments and also their loses.

All in all, Academia has done very well this far and we hope to witness another one of their victorious moments the following year in 2020.