The Year
In Review
First
XV Results
Second
XV Results
Third
XV Results
1994 was a year of improvement after the successful 1993 1st XV. Many of the players from the 1993 team were year 11 students and their experience made for a strong foundation for the team from the start. There was also a 2nd and a 3rd XV, showing the growing popularity of rugby at St Pat's. Mr Barakat was again coach of the 1st XV.
The First XV played trial matches against St Stanislaus College, Bathurst (WAS, not yet part of ISA), Waverley College (CAS), Sydney Grammar (GPS), Trinity Grammar (CAS), St Aloysius (CAS) and Knox (CAS). The First XV won all their trial games. The fact that St Pat's defeated all four CAS schools it played (five including the defeat of Barker on the Queensland Tour) started the movement for St Pat's to again attempt to join the CAS competition. Despite St Patrick's dominance over the CAS schools and the GPS school, the college was voted against joining.
Before the ISA competition got under way, the first XV also took part in three other competitions. St Pat's entered the Waratah Shield, defeating Kogarah High in the first round and, after a forfeit, lost to Marist College, Pearce in the third round.
During the mid year break, St Pat's First's embarked on the inaugural tour to Queensland, where they contested in the Jeff Miller Rugby Week Carnival. Of the sixteen entrants, St Pat's came second, defeating Daramalan and Barker College, before going down to St Pius X College.
Next St Pat's entered the first Rugby Tens competition, organised by SCECGS Redlands. Again St Pat's were runners-up, loosing to Randwick Boys High in the final. The competition was broadcast on Channel TEN and two St Pat's games were televised live on television, a first for St Pat's. Another record achieved by the '94 First XV is that they were the first team to score 500 points in a season.
Despite the strong build up, the First XV were runners-up in the ISA competition. Strong wins were recorded against Pittwater House and St Pius X College Chatswood (revenge for their defeat in Queensland) and SCECGS Redlands, but the 'final' was the match between Chevalier, Bowral and St Pat's. In a nail-biter, Chevalier won 10-9, and took out the ISA premiership. The final round of the ISA competition saw the First XV exact a record 102-0 score line against Central Coast Grammar.
The Second XV won its ISA Premiership, being undefeated in it's four games. The Second's did, however, lose three of it's trial matches - against St Stanislaus, St Aloysius and Riverview. The most memorable victory was that over St Andrew's First XV in the ISA Competition, Philip Williams crossing in the corner to score the winning try in the dying minutes of the match.
The Third XV did not compete in the ISA competition, but still some memorable wins after a shaky start. Victories over Shore and Sydney Grammar (both GPS) were great achievements.
St Patrick's were the only school to have twelve players selected in the representative ISA trials. Matthias Skillecorn and Robert Shehadie went on to play for NSW Schoolboys, and Robert Shehadie received even greater honours when he was selected to play for the Australian Schoolboys in a one-off Test against Wales.
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Played 13, won 10, lost
3
For: 527
Against: 163
Luke Quinlan
Dean Mulcahy
Matthias Skillecorn (vc)
Robert Shehadie
Christopher Todd
Michael Murphy
Patrick Ballesty
Ben Morris
Ben McGrath
Steven Pickering
Daniel Haskew
Stephen McNamara
Patrick Garnett (c)
Bradley O'Young
Richard Crittenden
def St Stanislaus' College,
Bathurst 18-12
def Waverley College 26-7
def Sydney Grammar 23-12
def Trinity Grammar, Summer Hill 22-16
def St Aloysius 46-8
def Knox Grammar 11-5
def Kogarah High 88-0
los Marist College, Pearce 3-53
def Daramalan 7-5
los St Pius X, Chatswood 7-8
def Barker College 22-5
def Pittwater House 69-8
def St Pius X, Chatswood 34-10
def SCECGS, Redlands 40-6
los Chevalier College, Bowral 9-10
def Central Coast Grammar 102-0
(number of games in
brackets)
Luke Quinlan (3)
Matthias Skillecorn (3)
Robert Shehadie (3)
Patrick Ballesty (3)
Patrick Garnett (3)
Bradley O'Young (3)
Stephen McNamara (2)
Richard Crittenden (1)
def NSW Country Schools 22-0
los Wales 6-40
los CHS 31-40
Robert Shehadie (1)
los Welsh Schoolboys 12-19
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Played 11, won 7, lost 3,
drew 1
For: 190
Against: 118
Andrew Bartlett, Ryan
Pardey, Christian Barton, Chris Roddy, Chris Earthrowl, Colin
Brown, Brendan Wholohan, Shaun Cousins, Chris Potts, Joseph Obeid
(c), Paul Farbotko, Ben Voysey, Michael Whealy, Philip Williams,
Chris Pardey, Craig Sproule, Andrew Sallway, Michael Fague
los St Stanislaus, Bathurst
3-20
drew Waverley College 15-15
def Sydney Grammar 22-17
def Trinity Grammar, Summer Hill 13-10
los St Aloysius 15-20
def Knox Grammar 6-5
los St Ignatius, Riverview 0-3
def Oxley College 19-18
def St Pius X College, Chatswood 57-0
def St Andrew's 12-10
def Chevalier, Bowral 28-0
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Played 11, won 4, lost 6,
drew 1
For: 163
Against 132
Joshua Hodge, Robert
Armitage, Andrew Collins, Ben Wicks, Michael Gough, Peter Torok,
Chris Sheehan, Rodney O'Neill, Stephen Smith, Jason Knox, Ian
Starkey, Andrew Hannon, Tim Casey-Nugent, David Shanahan, Trifon
Psaroulis, Shaun Carroll, Richard Patterson, Michael Carruthers,
Matthew Hall, Anthony Karam, Katrib Moussa
los St Stanislaus, Bathurst
0-6
los Waverley College 10-12
def Sydney Grammar 11-10
los Trinity Grammar 0-3
drew St Aloysius 13-13
los Knox Grammar 5-15
def Knox Grammar 24-5
los St Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill 7-44
def Shore 50-0
def Chevalier, Bowral 38-7
los St Ignatius, Riverview 5-17
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