Eastern Province complete Craven Week trials

Eastern Province trials weekend has just past and their provincial youth teams should be out by midweek.

Eastern Province stands out as the schoolboy rugby rainbow region of South Africa. Its the one place where there is a good blended representation of race groups – African, Coloured and White as well the languages – Afrikaans, English and Xhosa.

Sadly one player who is out of contention for a provincial recall is Grey High School hooker and captain Imaani Pemba, who damaged his collarbone at trials a few weeks back. Pemba would have been in the reckoning for SA Schools honours. In spite of Grey’s dominance in the province, their players continue to find the path to Craven Week selection fairly difficult.

Below are two of the four under-18 teams that competed as part of the final selection process.

#	EP TRIALS XV	SCHOOL	#	EP TRIALS XV	SCHOOL
1	Kian Rademeyer	Pearson	1	Phiko Petse	Kingswood
2	Hein Terblanche	Framesby	2	E Mattheus	Otto du Plessis
3	Sean Vermaak	Framesby	3	Zibablwa Booi	Ndzondelelo
4	Francois vd Ryst	Marlow	4	Abongile Golela	Graeme
5	AC Mnandi	Graeme	5	Jaco Pretorius	Framesby
6	Johan van Zyl	Framesby	6	Tapiwa Zanda	Kingswood
7	Batho Hlekani	Graeme	7	Conrad Botha	Marlow
8	Burrie van Heerden	Marlow	8	De Wet Fourie	Daniel Pienaar
9	Dempers Meyer	Marlow	9	Aza Ncula	Grey HS
10	Aiden de Villiers	Marlow	10	Logan Muller	Framesby
11	Leonard Booysen	Marlow	11	Kaiden Titus	Grey HS
12	Dominic Malgas	Nico Malan	12	Onika Sethosa	Grey HS
13	Tadiwe Chikutiro	Kingswood	13	Josias Weideman	Marlow
14	Sine Brawin	Kingswood	14	Lyle Meintjies	Muir
15	Joshua Bands	Grey HS	15	Jermaine Dampies	Brandwag