March 2023 Sports Digest

From the Dean of Undergraduates, Harry Croker

The 2023 Rawson Cup campaign is underway at 9 City Road. The College cricketers were hard at work for a number of weeks leading into the opening Rawson tournament. The first opponent; Wesley, Monday 27th Feb. Played on a beautiful sunny day at the College Oval, Wes won the toss and elected to bat. All out for 83. Paul’s went on to win the match 4/84, aided by an outstanding batting display from second year, Jack Matthews. (Matthews 53, Lynch 14, Stuart* 4, Munro* 4, Bowman 0, Donaldson 0).

Round 2 vs St John’s, Thursday 2nd March. Overcast and drizzly. The good guys won the toss, and elected to bat. Again, the College Oval was the venue, but the conditions not as desirable. Nevertheless, a second victory was notched in the cricket campaign, with a poor battler’s rear windshield the only other casualty of the day besides the SJC XI. St Paul’s 7/318 (Bowman 73, Craig* 63, Donaldson 61, Stuart 30, Matthews 17, O’Connor 13, Lynch 10, Bennett* 9, Munro 3). St John’s all out for 180 (Collins 66, Smith 53, Colgan 10, Kelly 8, Fogarty 7, Madigan 7, Southon 6, Lane 5, Woolnough 5, Rizzo* 4, Dunlop 1).

Round 3 vs our old foes. Wednesday 8th March; warm and sunny; the hallowed turf, No. 1 Oval. Despite a large fan base, the men in the gold and gules were unable to get the chocolates against a strong St Andrew’s outfit, who won the toss and elected to bat. St Andrew’s 8/236 (Snyman* 62, McNamara 37, Fredriksson 36, Lynch 27, Hayman*

19, Jones 13, Walker 8, Wines 6, Wright-Smith 5, Hope 1, Hartnell* 0). St Paul’s all out for 124 (Bowman 29, Hodge* 28, Stuart 16, Munro 16, Bennett 6, Donaldson 4, Craig 3, O’Connor 2, Matthews 0, Lynch 0, Brownie 0). A valiant effort no doubt, and as always, our men were gracious in defeat.

Currently the College is placed second overall in Rawson Cup standings on three points, with Drew’s in first place on five points, Wesley third place on one, and John’s fourth on zero.

Our next chance for a victory comes in Week 6 at the swimming.

History has been made this month as the College’s maiden Rosebowl campaign got underway on Monday 13th March against St Andrew’s at Bryden’s Show Court (SUSAC). Our young women have been training very hard for this outing, and they could not have more support from everyone at the College. We know they will do us proud.

The College calendar is ripe with events again this year. The social calendar began with the very popular Wine Cellar Lunch in week 2. Surreal Sounds is the first ‘dance’ of the year and attracts 1500 students from across the college community of the University. SClub is managing these ticketed and all the usual sporting events.

Le Labyrinthe | Tickets | trybooking.com/CGDHL

Date | Friday 31 March 7.30pm @ St Paul’s College Chapel Venture into the labyrinth and discover your own path to enlightenment this Easter.

Join Anna Fraser (soprano), Thomas Wilson (organ) and the women of St Paul’s College Chapel Choir (Jack Stephens, Director of Music) on a sumptuous and spiritual journey, guided by College Chaplain, Rev Antony Weiss, showcasing this beautiful and rarely heard French Baroque vocal work. Michel-Richard de Lalande’s ‘Leçons de Ténèbres’ and Miserere (1730) is beautiful, decorative, introvert sacred

Tarsus Chamber Collective | Just Another Story | Tickets | free, register at events.humanitix.com/just-anotherstory

Date | Sunday 2 April 3pm @ Graduate House Refectory

The Prokofiev quintet was the inspiration that led to creating Tarsus. The Prokofiev quintet was created for a traveling circus troupe of five musicians - this rare instrumentation created a unique dynamic for creativity and compositional possibilities.

Tarsus are very excited and proud to announce our first commissioned work called “Just Another Story” by Olga Hans. Olga is a successful Polish composer who took

Coronation Celebration

Date | Saturday 6 May 5-10pm | More information to be provided soon!

All welcome to St Paul’s College for a celebration of the Coronation of King Charles III. The Chapel Choir will present a concert of favourite Coronation Anthems with an organ, brass and percussion ensemble. After this, attendees will be invited into the Dining Hall for a ‘Royal Formal Dinner’, featuring entertainment from some of your favourite numbers of Victoriana! To conclude the night, chairs and picnic rugs will be present in the Quadrangle for a livestream of music of great style and grace and will be performed on the College Chapel’s two-manual Flentrop pipe organ. inspiration in writing this piece for us after hearing members of Tarsus perform the Prokofiev Quintet back in 2020.