EW Viljoen stars for Grey College
Grey College defeated Voortrekker (Bethlehem) 46-5 at the massive Fichardtpark Sports Day in Bloemfontein. The event featured no fewer that 50 school rugby teams.…
School Rugby Results 02-Mar-2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pionier | 6 | 23 | Kearsney |
| Glenwood | 26 | 24 | Framesby |
| Sarel Cilliers | 50 | 0 | Empangeni |
| Kroonstad Rooiskool | 20 | 15 | Marlow |
| Louis Botha | 32 | 7 | Welkom Gim |
| Noord-Kaap | 24 | 10 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Grey Cherries | 25 | 16 | Landboudal |
| Grey College | 46 | 5 | Voortrekker (Beth) |
| Fichardtpark | 23 | 24 | Witteberg |
| Ben Vorster | 50 | 7 | Standerton |
| Menlopark | 25 | 14 | Centurion |
| Jim Fouche | 27 | 21 | Klerksdorp |
| Rustenburg | 26 | 14 | Marais Viljoen |
| Diamantveld | 26 | 19 | Duineveld |
| Paarl Gim | 19 | 0 | Stellenbosch RA |
| HTS Middelburg | 38 | 8 | Transvalia |
| Drostdy | 17 | 17 | San Isidro (Argentina) |
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Glenwood beats Framesby 26-24
02-Mar-13. Glenwood and Framesby treated early arriving fans at the Kings Park Stadium in Durban to the only real excitement at the venue on the day. With the main game, a Super Rugby match between the Sharks and the Stormers turning out to be a dull affair, the 50-points aggregate score in the schoolboy rugby curtain raiser proved to be an advert of how rugby is meant to be played from a tactical point of view. In the end Glenwood won 26-24 after leading 12-9 at the break.…
College still upbeat ahead of Voortrekker Night Series game
Maritzburg College are still seeing the positive side of life despite going down to Westville (10-5) and then to Kearsney (19-7) in their first two warm up sessions of the year, played at the Voortrekker Rugby Night . Coach Ryan Strudwick has believes there has been good value in giving players game time with contact and in testing depth.…
SBR Super Rugby Superbru Round 3
Updated. The Super Rugby weekend starts with a difficult to predict clash between the Blues and Crusaders and ends with a mouthwatering game between the Sharks and Stormers.…
Framesby excited about their Sharks/Stormers curtain-raiser
Framesby is looking forward to the experience of playing a curtain-raiser to the Sharks versus Stormers Super Rugby match at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday, 02 March 2013. They are also grateful for the good relationship they have with their opponents on the day Glenwood, which made this match possible. Just like Glenwood, Framesby will be approaching the game as a pre-season preparation for the coming season.…
KES Easter Rugby Festival 2013
The King Edward VII Easter Rugby Festival is arguable the best attended school rugby festival in the country.
This year apart from the hosts KES, the big attraction team is bound to be Garsfontein who has seen a big improvement in their rugby and results in recent times. Centurion also comes off a very good 2012 season and will be hoping to build on that success. Marlow, Menlopark and Eldoraigne rank nationally amongst the unknown quanities and are capable of producing good results while Hentie Cilliers has been a good supply line to the Griffons Craven Week and Academy Week causes over the years.
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu.28Mar | Garsfontein | 106 | 07 | Golden Lions Inv |
| Thu.28Mar | KES | 40 | 12 | Hudson Park |
| Thu.28Mar | Parktown | 10 | 12 | Trinityhouse |
| Thu.28Mar | Marlow | 22 | 39 | Centurion |
| Thu.28Mar | Eldoraigne | 22 | 20 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Thu.28Mar | Menlopark | 36 | 03 | Lichtenburg |
| Sat.30Mar | Golden Lions Inv | 00 | 89 | Centurion |
| Sat.30Mar | Lichtenburg | 00 | 80 | Garsfontein |
| Sat.30Mar | Menlopark | 51 | 24 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Sat.30Mar | Trinityhouse | 16 | 28 | Eldoraigne |
| Sat.30Mar | Parktown | 32 | 22 | Hudson Park |
| Sat.30Mar | Marlow | 20 | 16 | KES |
| Mon.01Apr | Eldoraigne | 36 | 05 | Hudson Park |
| Mon.01Apr | Menlopark | 39 | 44 | Marlow |
| Mon.01Apr | Lichtenburg | 28 | 41 | Centurion |
| Mon.01Apr | Golden Lions Inv | 00 | 77 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Mon.01Apr | Parktown | 05 | 109 | Garsfontein |
| Mon.01Apr | KES | 24 | 35 | Trinityhouse |
Dale gets off to a decent start
A tweet yesterday from Dale College read as follows:
…Dale played De Vos Malan today in their opener beating them 28-8 the unbeaten streak at home continues!!
Glenwood ready for Framesby at Kings Park
Glenwood opens their season in style with a curtain-raiser to the Sharks versus Stormers Super Rugby match at Kings Park on Saturday 02 March 2013. Kickoff is at 5pm. Their worthy opponents will be Framesby from Port Elizabeth, who like Glenwood are involved in three major rugby festivals this season, namely NWU-Puk, Kearsney and Wildeklawer. It’s a big season for both and although this game is billed as a proper fixture, Glenwood has indicated that they will be approaching it as a pre-season game with combinations still under the microscope.…
Big Waterpolo weekend ahead
“Lots of waterpolo action this weekend in the Big Smoke” – Greenblooded ©…
Grey College’s exciting team for 2013
Grey College has selected its 1st XV consisting of 23-player squad for the opening game against Voortrekker in Bethlehem on 02 March 2013. The talented team contains a number of players that did duty in 2012. All-in-all 17 Grade-12 students and 6 Grade-11’s make for a very well balanced squad however only one of the Grade-11’s namely flyhalf Michael Andrade will start the game.…
Paul Roos announces Cell C sponsorship deal
25 Feb 2013. Paul Roos has agreed a 3-year sponsorship deal…
Varsity Cup Young Guns: Round 2
The first round of the Varsity Cup Young Guns for under-20’s saw the defending champions Tuks squeeze by the Shimlas 18-16 while the UCT Trojans thrashed NMMU 44-15. This week NMMU are going to need all the home support they can get for a very tough encounter against the Maties while the Pukke should be too strong for Wits at the Fanie du Toit Stadium in Potchefstroom.…
Sergeal Petersen & youngest Super Rugby player records
Sergeal Petersen, the 18-year-old Southern Kings right wing has just completed a dream debut for the new Super Rugby franchise. On Saturday the Kings defeated the Western Force 22-10 with Petersen accounting for two tries and being awarded the Man of the Match after the game. Professional Super Rugby started out as the Super 12 in 1996 and is now into it’s eighteenth season. During this time not too many 18-year-olds have played in the competition, even fewer of that age have scored tries and of those try-scorers it has been a rarity for one to score on debut. So you can imagine how unique Petersen’s achievements are.…
Northwood wins the Damelin Night Series 2013
Northwood deservedly beat Port Natal 12-3 to claim the Damelin Night Series title for 2013. The win was made possible thanks to some outstanding work by the pack and excellent defence all round.…
SBR Super Rugby Superbru week 2
Updated. Super Rugby kicks off in South Africa and New Zealand today. College Old Boy Slam will be hard pressed to hold onto his rather fortuitous lead once the real contenders get going this weekend in a compo that is all about skills and has zero to do with luck in spite of what everyone else and your own human logic tells you.…
Damelin Night Series Finals 2013
Port Natal has one final hurdle to clear in order to complete a dream Damelin Night Series. After a less than convincing start against Pinetown, the hosts got their act together with a resounding victory…
Kearsney ready to kick start the year 2013
Kearsney will head into their first major contact session of 2013 without a number of their stalwarts. Just like Tier 1 opponents College and Westville, the overlap of the rugby pre-season with the summer sports calendar has resulted in a number of first choice players not being made available for these warm-up games. This along with injuries sees Kearsney travel to the Voortrekker Rugby Night Series in Pietermaritzburg for a match against locals College without the likes of their SA Schools duo of Dan and JL du Preez, highly rated Ayron Schramm, playmaker Tyler Smith, the ever-reliable decision-maker Tristan Tedder and strongly-built Guy Francis.…
Northwood names new headmaster
Tony Jordan recently retired after 39 years of teaching service, over 25 of which was spent at Northwood. His replacement as headmaster at Northwood is a big rugby fan which bodes well for the school and school rugby in KwaZulu-Natal in general. Here is the newsletter confirming the new appointment.…
Bulls scout on early business trip to the Cape
Blue Bulls scout Xander Janse van Rensburg, who is known to travel the length and breadth of South Africa during the school rugby season in search of talent to sign up for the Loftus based team and the University of Pretoria, is in the Western Cape at the moment. Since the local school season is still weeks away from kicking off, his much earlier than anticipated trip down south has a number of loyal Province officials feeling a bit uncomfortable. …
Northwood is u19 Headmasters Agreement compliant
Northwood don’t anticipate any issues with the controversial Headmasters Agreement to crop up at any stage this season. The school acquired the services of three new under-19 1st XV players for 2013. …
SACS getting ready to take on Paarl Gim
Some SACS fans are already out in force to drum up more support for their team using twitter and facebook. …
Eastern Cape school rugby predictions
Blogger Rugbyfan has shared his opinions on how the high profile Eastern Cape schools will fare in the rankings this season.…