Al-Taqwa College competed with many other Islamic schools (AIA Melbourne, Darul Ullum, Unity Grammar B, Ilim College, ICoM and Minaret College) in the annual Sports Carnival. With exciting sports such as Girls/Boys futsal and basketball, it was a thrilling event filled with action and drama on the sports court.
Below is the full result of the recent Islamic Schools Sports Carnival. Al-Taqwa College ranked third overall. We came second in the boys’ basketball and third in the girls’ basketball as well as boys’ futsal.
The boys’ futsal was played on Monday 6 March, the boys lost their semi-final game against the eventual champions, Minaret College. Al-Taqwa scored first through Moonib who was our best player but our defence had no answer to Minaret College’s attacking prowess. We eventually lost to them with a score of 2-1.
We would like to thank our boys and girls for their effort and determination as well as the teachers who were diligently coaching the students in this year’s sports carnival.
| BOYS FUTSAL |
POINTS |
| Minaret 1st |
3 points |
| AIA Melbourne 2nd |
2 points |
| Al Taqwa 3rd |
1 point |
| Darul Ullum 3rd |
1 point |
| GIRLS FUTSAL |
POINTS |
| Illim 1st |
3 points |
| ICOM 2nd |
2 points |
| AIA Melbourne 3rd |
1 point |
| EPIC 3rd |
1 point |
| BOYS BASKETBALL |
POINTS |
| AIA 1st |
3 points |
| Al Taqwa 2nd |
2 points |
| Unity Grammar B 3rd |
1 point |
| ICOM 3rd |
1 point |
| GIRLS BASKETBALL |
POINTS |
| AIA 1st |
3 points |
| Illim 2nd |
2 points |
| Al Taqwa 3rd |
1 point |
| Minaret 3rd |
1 point |
| TOTAL CARNIVAL POINTS |
|
| AIA Melbourne: 9 points |
Unity Grammar B: 1 point |
| Illim College: 5 points |
AIA Sydney A: 0 points |
| Al-Taqwa: 4 points |
AIA Sydney B: 0 points |
| Minaret: 4 points |
AIA Sydney C: 0 points |
| ICOM: 3 points |
Al Siraat: 0 points |
| Darul Ullum: 1 point |
Unity Grammar A: 0 points |
| EPIC: 1 point |
|
RANKINGS:
GOLD: AIA MELBOURNE 1st overall
SILVER: ILLIM COLLEGE 2nd overall
BRONZE: AL TAQWA 3rd overall
Meanwhile our Year 11/12 boys comprising of Jawad, Khaled, Ali, Talal (captain), Boneyya and Mahmoud played tennis in the Wyndham District Tournament on Thursday 9 March. We managed to beat Tarneit Senior but lost to Suzanne Cory and Hoppers Crossing. Overall, a great performance from the boys nevertheless.
Mohamed Yassin Othman
Secondary Sports Coordinator
On Wednesday the 8th of March, Year 8-9 boys an Islamic school competition for Basketball was held, and a great team from Al-Taqwa college participated. The boys played excellently throughout the entire day, dominating all opposing teams to go forward and making it to the semi finals with ease. The semi final was also won by our boys through further displaying dominance with a 12 point win. The grand final game against AIA Melbourne however didn’t go too well, losing by 6 points really was disappointing for the boys, it was almost like a punch in the gut. The boys took many shots at goal, but only 10 points were scored in the end, as opposed to AIA who scored 16 points from only fewer shots taken. The boys did dominate the grand final, but they just couldn’t score enough to win! Still a big CONGRATULATIONS to the boys for their 2nd place position overall, and well done to Saifullah, Ezzat Haddara, Akram Mohammed, Bader Ismail for playing excellently. Also a BIG WELL DONE to Yusuf Rasool who I believe was the player of the tournament.
Abdulwahid Abdo
Secondary H&PE Teacher
Yesterday the 8th March the year 8 and 9’s competed in the National Islamic Schools basketball tournament, the tournament in which they were reigning champions in. The girls team consisted of 2 year 8’s Mona and Safa and then the rest year 9’s Jasmine, Macy, Yasmine, Abia, Hasna, Sameya, Sulyka and Rodayna their captain. The girls played really well as a team and Rodayna was a strong and fair leader. They also took with them Amnah a VCAL student to help coach and manage the team, which she did very well and was very vocal in support of her team.
The girls performed exceptionally in their pool, they beat Miranet 10-6 in the first game, beat Epic 10-0 and then AIA Sydney 38-0 for the final game in the pool. As top of their pool they then went in to the semi finals and played AIA Melbourne for a spot in the grand final. AIA would have to have been the toughest game of the day and with no score untill the last few minutes, it was a very close game. Unfortunatly it was not menat to be our year and AIA scored with minutes to go to leave the final score at 2-0.
The girls performed exceptionally all day and left nothing on the court. Well done to all involeved, I was very proud of them.
Mary Munson
Secondary H&PE Teacher
