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Die Burger Trophy 2014 – Large Schools

11 August, 2014 beet 22

Die Burger still seems to be struggling to establish itself as a knock-out tournament of significance.

The concept for this small Cape coastal belt competition is borrowed from the highly successful Noordvaal Beeldtrofee (formerly Administrators’ Cup) and is therefore a good one.…

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Eastern Cape decider: Selborne vs Grey High

11 August, 2014 beet 38

The Eastern Cape school rugby season has been building up towards this huge intercity clash almost since Day 1. Selborne of East London and Grey High School of Port Elizabeth, the top two teams in the province will battle it out for top honours on Saturday, 16 August 2014.…

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Queen’s win the Queenstown derby

11 August, 2014 beet 5

By John Duncan

On Saturday the 9th of May, Queen’s College and Hangklip Hoerskool, clashed for the 50th game between these two schools which saw Queeen’s College win the local derby 61-7.…

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Match report: Glenwood beats Maritzburg College 21-20

11 August, 2014 beet 171

Maritzburg College versus Glenwood games on Goldstones in Pietermaritzburg should carry a health warning. The closing stages of the last four matches between the KwaZulu-Natals intercity rivals on the famous ground have gone down to the wire. There is no ways this can be good for the hearts or nerves of the respective supporters but boy does it make for entertaining to watch rugby. …

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School Rugby fixtures & results – week ending 09/08/2014

9 August, 2014 beet 80
DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL EVENT
Mon 04/08/2014 Kingswood 31 22 Pearson
Tue 05/08/2014 KES 21 47 Monument
Tue 05/08/2014 Grey College Cherries 26 32 Louis Botha
Thu 07/08/2014 Boland Landbou 59 8 Hugenote
Thu 07/08/2014 Grey College 66 13 Sand du Plessis
Thu 07/08/2014 Hudson Park 25 26 Grens
Sat 09/08/2014 Maritzburg College 20 21 Glenwood
Sat 09/08/2014 Grey HS 29 19 Framesby
Sat 09/08/2014 Brandwag (Uitenhage) 23 20 Nico Malan
Sat 09/08/2014 Dale 11 20 Selborne
Sat 09/08/2014 Hangklip 7 61 Queen’s
Sat 09/08/2014 Marlow 38 35 Daniel Pienaar
Sat 09/08/2014 Stirling 17 68 Cambridge
Sat 09/08/2014 Parktown 6 12 Jeppe
Sat 09/08/2014 Affies 34 26 Pretoria BH On TV
Sat 09/08/2014 Augsburg 30 12 Swartland
Sat 09/08/2014 Bishops 26 12 SACS
Sat 09/08/2014 De Kuilen 17 14 Bellville
Sat 09/08/2014 Drostdy 41 14 Durbanville
Sat 09/08/2014 Rondebosch 26 57 Paarl Gim
Sat 09/08/2014 Stellenberg 46 24 Brackenfell
Sat 09/08/2014 Tygerberg 15 24 Wynberg
Sat 09/08/2014 Langenhoven Gim 13 36 Oakdale
Sat 09/08/2014 Oudtshoorn 10 59 Outeniqua
Sat 09/08/2014 Diamantveld 24 12 Noord-Kaap
Sat 09/08/2014 Pietersburg 18 29 Transvalia Beeld: Large Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Klerksdorp 6 3 Oos-Moot Beeld: Large Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Tuine 21 18 Helpmekaar Beeld: Large Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Standerton 47 28 Hugenote (Springs) Beeld: Large Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Menlopark 24 31 EG Jansen Beeld: Macro Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Kempton Park 29 33 Nelspruit Beeld: Macro Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 HTS Middelburg 5 25 Monument Beeld: Macro Schools SF
Sat 09/08/2014 Centurion 24 41 Garsfontein Beeld: Macro Schools SF
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Dale to wear pink for cancer awareness

7 August, 2014 beet 63

“Once again and for the third successive year Dale College First Rugby XV will wear their Pink Strip of Pink jerseys and shorts to highlight the disease of Cancer when Dale College and a formidable Selborne College play the 189th game against each other in King William’s Town. This history of rugby rivalry goes back to 1892! Dale’s sort after motivating Pink Strip is only worn by Dale once a year at present. The initiative and motivation behind Pink Day at Dale and playing in Pink strip to highlight Cancer is still possibly a first for any South African schools”…

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Top 30 Combo Rankings – using 7 school rugby websites

6 August, 2014 beet 10

It wasn’t that long ago that there was just one national school rugby ranking system, now every about every website that covers rugby has it’s own one. Here is the combined effect of 7 such website’s rankings. Points have been allocated on the basis of 20 for 1st, 19 for 2nd, etc, etc. while the remaining few teams are from those who were ranked best outside the Top 20.…

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Glenwood needs the Goldstones win to be absolutely sure of 1st place

5 August, 2014 beet 228

Glenwood will travel up the N3 freeway to Maritzburg College’s Goldstones on Saturday in search of a win period. The bonus will be that if they achieve it, they will be the undisputed No.1 team in KwaZulu-Natal for the 2014 season. Defeat would open up a potentially lively debate about who the best team in KwaZulu-Natal is in 2014 as it would probably result in College finishing ahead of Glenwood on a few different national ranking systems including the BHP used on this website.…

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Match report: Kingswood beats Graeme 27-26

4 August, 2014 beet 1

Kingswood broke their derby day hoodoo with a determined victory over Graeme College, in a pulsating fixture on Somerset Field. Kingswood came back from a 19-8 deficit to clinch the game at the death.…

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Paarl Boys High vs Paarl Gim – biggest school rugby game in SA

2 August, 2014 beet 101

From Premier Interschools:

Saturday 2nd August 2014 the Paarl will once again be divided between North and South, between Gimmie and Boishaaier, between Bloedwors and Galpil. Actually, for the whole preceding week the Town is split into two camps. The Blue and White of Boishaai and the Maroon, Green and Gold of Paarl Gim. These colours will feature on almost every tree, gate, porch or window of Main Street Paarl.…

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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – week ending 02/08/2014

2 August, 2014 beet 232
DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL EVENT
Tue 29/07/2014 Grey College 63 12 Fichardtpark
Tue 29/07/2014 Jim Fouche 13 25 Grey College Cherries
Sat 02/08/2014 Affies 22 36 Glenwood
Sat 02/08/2014 Maritzburg College 35 18 Pretoria BH
Sat 02/08/2014 Cambridge 53 0 Port Rex
Sat 02/08/2014 Dale 28 22 St Andrew’s
Sat 02/08/2014 Graeme 26 27 Kingswood
Sat 02/08/2014 Nico Malan 19 17 Daniel Pienaar
Sat 02/08/2014 Outeniqua 29 3 Framesby
Sat 02/08/2014 Selborne 19 10 Queen’s
Sat 02/08/2014 Oudtshoorn 17 20 Brandwag (Uitenhage)
Sat 02/08/2014 Oakdale 34 8 Marlow
Sat 02/08/2014 Grey HS 27 20 Grey College
Sat 02/08/2014 Jeppe 22 24 Monument
Sat 02/08/2014 Parktown 12 18 KES
Sat 02/08/2014 Bellville 21 22 Durbanville
Sat 02/08/2014 Bishops 14 36 Paul Roos
Sat 02/08/2014 Brackenfell 7 41 Drostdy
Sat 02/08/2014 Boland Landbou 17 17 SACS
Sat 02/08/2014 Hugenote 18 3 Strand
Sat 02/08/2014 Paarl Gim 16 15 HJS Paarl BH Interskole!
Sat 02/08/2014 Schoonspruit 31 5 Augsburg
Sat 02/08/2014 Stellenberg 30 6 DF Malan
Sat 02/08/2014 Swartland 14 40 Tygerberg
Sat 02/08/2014 Wynberg 15 0 Rondebosch
Sat 02/08/2014 AHS Kroonstad 52 0 Kroonstad HS
Sat 02/08/2014 Voortrekker (Beth) 57 18 Witteberg
Sat 02/08/2014 Welkom Gim 18 36 Goudveld
Sat 02/08/2014 Welkom THS 3 60 Hentie Cilliers
Sat 02/08/2014 Fichardtpark 66 10 Aliwal-Noord
Sat 02/08/2014 Sentraal (FS) 13 15 Duineveld
Tue 29/07/2014 Transvalia 29 29 Hugenote (Springs) Beeld: Large Sch. Reg. Final
Tue 29/07/2014 EG Jansen 24 21 Kempton Park Beeld: Macro Sch Reg Final
Tue 29/07/2014 Nelspruit 14 12 HTS Middelburg Beeld: Macro Sch Reg Final
Sat 02/08/2014 Rustenburg 12 70 Menlopark Beeld: Macro Schools
Sat 02/08/2014 Waterkloof 20 22 Kempton Park Beeld: Macro Schools
Sat 02/08/2014 Vereeniging Gim HTS Middelburg Beeld: Macro Schools
Sat 02/08/2014 Florida 17 25 Centurion Beeld: Macro Schools
Sat 02/08/2014 Volksrust 22 28 Transvalia Beeld: Large Schools QF
Sat 02/08/2014 Oos Moot 24 0 Linden Beeld: Large Schools QF
Sat 02/08/2014 Helpmekaar 19 15 Lichtenburg Beeld: Large Schools QF
Sat 02/08/2014 Hugenote (Springs) 25 20 Frikkie Meyer Beeld: Large Schools QF
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KZN youth club rugby for 2014 kicks off

1 August, 2014 beet 10

KZN’s popular youth club rugby for under-13 up to under-18 players begins at Northwood Crusaders rugby ground in Durban North this Sunday. As always there is plenty of incentive for young rugby players to do well.…

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Bad idea: Henry Immelman playing Free State Currie Cup this year

30 July, 2014 beet 19

Big news doing the rounds is that Grey College fullback Henry Immelman has been included in the Free State Currie Cup 2014 training squad. At this stage it’s unclear whether this is a genuine call-up or just some sort of I don’t know marketing or incentive ploy that rugby unions like to make use of from time to time. Either way the story kind of reminds me of Jaco Taute from back in 2009 when we was a 6 A’s matric student at Monument in Krugersdorp and got to make his debut for the Lions senior team at just aged 18.…

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Strict quota for SA Schools?

28 July, 2014 beet 122

Official or unofficial, I’m not sure this kind of stuff is even news anymore.

Rapport newspaper reported that at least half of the SA Schools team for 2014 would have to be players of colour.…

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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – week ending 26/07/2014

26 July, 2014 beet 556

Back to the grindstone.

DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL EVENT
Sat 26/07/2014 Glenwood 12 29 Grey College
Sat 26/07/2014 Maritzburg College 37 10 Affies
Sat 26/07/2014 Selborne 18 10 Hudson Park
Sat 26/07/2014 Daniel Pienaar 29 44 Grey HS
Sat 26/07/2014 Framesby 33 24 Noord-Kaap
Sat 26/07/2014 Kingswood 64 10 Union
Sat 26/07/2014 Queen’s 92 0 Port Rex
Sat 26/07/2014 St Andrew’s 37 18 Marlow
Sat 26/07/2014 Westering 0 59 Cambridge
Sat 26/07/2014 Brandwag (Uitenhage) 80 0 Despatch
Thu 17/07/2014 Tygerberg 57 0 Despatch
Thu 17/07/2014 Bellville 33 3 Volkskool Graaff-Reniet
Thu 17/07/2014 Swartland 25 5 Manchester GS (UK)
Thu 17/07/2014 Augsburg Gym 19 10 RGS Wycombe (UK)
Sat 19/07/2014 Tygerberg 33 7 RGS Wycombe (UK)
Sat 19/07/2014 Swartland 36 5 Despatch
Sat 19/07/2014 Stellenberg 32 12 Augsburg
Sat 19/07/2014 Bellville 24 5 Manchester GS (UK)
Wed 23/07/2014 New Orleans 37 10 Swartland
Wed 23/07/2014 HJS Paarl BH 19 10 Sedbergh (UK)
Thu 24/07/2014 Bellville 0 5 Bristol GS (UK)
Sat 26/07/2014 Augsburg 33 7 Piketberg
Sat 26/07/2014 Bellville 40 5 Monument Park
Sat 26/07/2014 Boland Landbou 33 3 Stellenberg
Sat 26/07/2014 Oakdale 11 24 Paul Roos
Sat 26/07/2014 HJS Paarl BH 36 3 Bishops
Sat 26/07/2014 Paarl Gim 37 10 SACS
Sat 26/07/2014 Rondebosch 22 13 Tygerberg
Wed 23/07/2014 New Orleans 37 10 Swartland
Sat 26/07/2014 Wynberg 19 5 Drostdy
Sat 26/07/2014 Welkom THS 0 47 Voortrekker (Beth)
Sat 26/07/2014 Hentie Cilliers 33 31 AHS Kroonstad
Sat 26/07/2014 Kroonstad 26 10 Goudveld
Sat 26/07/2014 Welkom Gim 28 7 Witteberg
Sat 26/07/2014 Jim Fouche 62 7 Duineveld
Sat 26/07/2014 Louis Botha 41 22 Sentraal (FS)
Sat 26/07/2014 Diamandveld 29 24 Fichardtpark
Sat 26/07/2014 Landboudal 45 14 Upington
Sat 26/07/2014 Jeppe 17 17 KES
Sat 26/07/2014 Pretoria BH 24 37 Menlopark
Sat 26/07/2014 Noordheuwel 29 43 Marais Viljoen
Sat 26/07/2014 Frikkie Meyer 14 45 Pietersburg Limpopo Large Schools Final
Sat 26/07/2014 Oos Moot 25 26 Tuine Bulls Large Schools Final
Sat 26/07/2014 Volksrust 28 28 Standerton Pumas Large Schools Final
Sat 26/07/2014 Lichtenburg 13 21 Klerksdorp Leopards Large Schools Final
Sat 26/07/2014 Helpmekaar W Linden Lions Large Schools Final
Sat 26/07/2014 Eldoraigne 15 15 RSG Wycombe (UK)
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Jeppe vs KES

25 July, 2014 beet 38

The Jeppe – KES derby is one of the best attended schoolboy rugby games in South Africa in any given season. The good news is that the match will be televised live on SuperSport channel SS1 / SS1HD starting at 14h00.…