Nories recorded a 10-8 win against Pretoria Boys’ High on Thursday 16 March. It’s all starting to come together nicely for the Krugersdorp co-ed school who hardly have a rugby culture and like it or not are branded as the West Rand rich academic girls’ school, one that very much lives in the rugby shadow of rugby high-flying neighbours Monument.…
First place in three of the four Tuks-Reeks groups are still up for grabs but the competition spotlight should be on Boksburg for one of the biggest matches of the whole schoolboy rugby season so far when EG Jansen takes on Garsfontein (Pretoria).…
Even though Stellenberg near the Durbanville/Bellville residential borderline in Cape Town’s northern suburbs is still regarded as a Premier B league school in their very competitive region, the school has successfully created outstanding opportunities for their under-19A rugby team to showcase its ability as a top rugby school against some of the best SA has to offer.…
The annual Border Schools’ Rugby Day will take place at Selborne on 18 March 2017. It is the starting point of what promises to be an interesting regional season. At this early stage not too many locals are prepared to put their heads on the block and predict who of three big guns Dale, Queen’s or Selborne will finish the season on top.
Main field fixtures:
GAME#
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
1
Gonubie
Alphandale
2
Breidbach
Lilyfontein
3
Port Rex
Jamangile
4
Queen’s
Stirling
5
Cambridge
Chief Boklein
6
Dale
Grens
7
Selborne
Hudson Park
Note re-streaming:
All the Border Schools Rugby Day 2017 matches on the Selborne College A Field will be live streamed on the internet. Click on the respective link of the match you want to view, as follows:
09h00 Gonubie High 1st XV vs Alphandale High 1st XV
10h10 Breidbach High 1st XV vs Lillyfontein High 1st XV
11h20 George Randell 1st XV vs Tsholomnqa 1st XV
12h40 Port Rex 1st XV vs Jamangile High 1st XV
13h50 Queens College 1st XV vs Stirling High 1st XV
15h00 Dale College 1st XV vs Grens High 1st XV
16h10 Selborne College 1st XV vs Hudson Park 1st XV
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Match at Ellis Park
Krugersdorp’s Monument heads into a potential banana peel Tuks-reeks match against Pretoria high school Eldoraigne on Saturday 18 March without five regular starters.…
Updated. SARU is conducting an under-18 training camp at Hugenote High School in Wellington from 17-21 March 2017. Players from around the country have been invited to attend.…
Even without star flyhalf Chris Schreuder in the Grey College starting line-up for Saturday’s home match against Waterkloof, the “les bleus” backline looks like it has the ability to test and pass the defensive capability of the strongest wall any opponent puts up in an effort to halt them. …
One weekend after Menlopark and Eldoraigne got their respective seasons off to a formal start in the Tuks-Reeks, its the turn of the three top rated Pretoria schools to enter the fray.…
With annual participants Paarl Boishaai 1st XV, 2nd XV and under-16 away on a rugby tour of New Zealand, numerically small school Porterville turns to Cape Town schools Bishops and Stellenberg to provide the top quality rugby at their annual event. This year’s Sports Weekend might prove to be the quiet before the storm in 2018. In what could still become the worst kept secret before the year 2018 arrives, it seems like Porterville could potentially play hosts to a series of age-group matches involving a powerhouse from the South versus a powerhouse from the North.…
South Africa Sevens u18 beat Namibia u18 45-0 to win the inaugural Capricorn Group Seven Rugby Festival at Windhoek Gymnasium on Saturday, 04 March 2017.…
The KZNRU has formally requested the Vories Night Series certified coach to conduct a Boksmart audit before and during matchday 1 of the annual preseason shortened matches festival. The request made on behalf of the KZNRU by a Boksmart trainer read as follows:…
HTS Middelburg played without several first choice players including injured flyhalf Riekert Barnard but ultimately paid the price for poor defence and went down 10-18 to Transvalia …
BoishaaiPa suggested this a few months back: a look at the various April (and 01 May) 2017 schoolboy rugby fixtures with the aim of determining which school has the hardest fixture list during this jam-packed period. So the million dollar question being asked is: “who got the X2 Magic Mountain ride?” and just for the fun the billion Zim dollar question: “who’s got the easiest ride?”…
It’s being reported on SchoolofRugby that Kyknet will be broadcasting several games including those involving smaller schools participating in the Virsekerbeker.…
The 2017 national schoolboy rugby season is fast approaching and there are already allegations doing the rounds about several schools who are expected to field 1st XV’s with excessive numbers of under-19 players.…
The Junior Commonwealth Games takes places in the Bahamas this year. The under-18 Sevens event will be staged from 19 to 23 July 2017. These dates clash with Craven Week which will be hosted by St Stithians in Randburg from 17-22 July.…
St Stithians College is delighted to host its 34th Easter sports festival in April. Many of you know this festival as the Easter Sports Festival. St Stithians have decided to refer to the festival as the Saints Sports Festival to include both the Prep schools’ festival and the College festival culminating in a riveting 7 days of sport. …
Following the meeting of the Gauteng Heads of Boys’ Schools held in November 2016, no fewer than eleven Gauteng high schools were listed on a letter sent as a collective to Hilton College in same month.
The letter expressed concern over the transfer of boys from several Gauteng schools to Hilton College. It emphasised the issue at stake, made mention of what constitutes good values, asked for mutual respect and most importantly requested that Hilton refrains from “poaching” their players.…