Month: February 2022
March Madness beckons for Stellenberg
While College basketball players in the United State’s NCAA Division 1 gear up for what’s referred to as “March Madness”, a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the US, closer to home, Stellenberg prepares for an SA schoolboy rugby version of popular term when their 2022 season starts with a month chokka block with tough fixtures.…
Grey College & Welkom Gim get 2022 going in Bloem
Grey College and Welkom Gim who have pretty much been the Central region’s No.1 and No.2 ranked 1st XV’s respectively, in recent times, will square off at the Hoërskool President Steyn’s Hester van der Walt Sportdag in Bloemfontein on Saturday 25 March 2022.…
Least experienced 1st XVs of the modern era to kick-off 2022 season
Two of the 2021 season pace-setters Paarl Gymnasium and Grey College will head into the 2022 South African schoolboy rugby season as the early favourites come out on top, but for the most part, determining where the rest of the big guns will fit into the ranking puzzle is a guessing game.…
Memories from April 2021
After watching a Gloucester match in the English Premiership last weekend, this week gone past I could not help but think of something Garsfontein deputy headmaster Retief Smith wrote last April.…
Who is Hoërskool Trio?
One of the school news events that might have gone unnoticed during 2021, is that the Blouskool and Rooiskool rivalry in Kroonstad is no more. How so? Well the two schools have merged to form one bigger school called TRIO. …
