As Grey College and Maritzburg College ran on to the field, the heavens opened and the rain bucketed down for a while. These sporadic downfalls continued throughout the match. With Grey’s backs being rated countrywide as the danger factor this season, the wet ball-handling conditions coupled with them being without their dynamic first choice centre combination of Rikus Pretorius and Janco van Heyningen, gave an impression that the playing fields had perhaps evened out a little more. However Goldstones field held firm underfoot and even without those two star players, Grey’s backs still managed to put on a dominant and well-judged exhibition in the first half, scoring 25 of the points that paved the way to an eventual 30-3 victory.…
Hilton defeated Clifton College (Bristol, UK) 22-7 to claim the first Rugby School International u18 Sevens title. The event was played as part of Rugby School’s 450th birthday celebration. Michaelhouse finished 7th out of 12 at the same tournament.
Come Saturday evening, home team Maritzburg College should be best placed of all Grey College’s traditional inter-schools rivals to answer the question: “Is it better to play Grey at the start of the season or at the end of the long campaign?”…
Graeme College in Grahamstown will once again play hosts to a well organised early season rugby day that attracts most of the Eastern Cape’s top rugby schools annually. Graeme is expected to field a fairly competitive team in 2017 and will test themselves against provincial powerhouses Selborne in the main match.
Paarl Boys’ High, South Africa’s undisputed, undefeated number-1 schoolboy rugby team for 2015 and 2016 will put their 38-game winning streak on the line when they tour New Zealand from 24 March to 9 April 2017. Over 100 1st, 2nd, 3rd XV and u16 players will form part of the huge tour group. Boishaai New Zealand Tour 2017 FB site
Read more to find out how their tour opponents are rated in New Zealand …
One week after scoring 12 tries against Northwood, DHS could not cross the white chalk once as Hilton’s seemingly impenetrable defence stood firm, helping the “visitors” to record a bit of an upset 10-6 win at Kings Park in Durban.…
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.…
