KZN

It was a beautiful day in Johannesburg as teams made their way down to UJ Stadium for their last games of the Grant Khomo Week.…

The ISRF kicks off at Penryn School near Nelpruit today. Five Kwazulu-Natal schools  are participating. They are Clifton (Durban), Hilton, Kearsney, Michaelhouse and Thomas More.…

It was a tough day for most teams as 8 out of 10 games had close scorelines. In all those games the difference was 5 points or less, in a couple of games the game was only won in the last 5 minutes. This should be good news for SA Rugby as this proves how strong SA Rugby is.…

There wasn’t much to talk about in the first half except the fact that the Pumas dominated every department and scored two unanswered tries. The only positive that KZN could take out of the first half was a long range penalty from Joubert who got it over from his own 10m line. Pumas led 14 – 3 at the break.…

The KZN u18 players and coaching staff were fortunate to escape unharmed when their bus caught alight and eventually burnt to smithereens on the way back to Durban from East London earlier this week. Not so lucky was their new Mr Price Sport kit that was reduced to ashes.…

With probably over 10000 people in attendance, Hilton’s Gilfillan field had this sort of mini amphitheatre feel about it.  The atmosphere throughout the game was incredible but probably peaked just prior to kickoff. Reason…

Mr Price Sport, well-known in schoolboy rugby circles throughout the country for their generous kit support, are continuing  the existing partnership with the Kwazulu-Natal under 18 Craven Week team. …

The Hilton win over Michaelhouse has made things a little fuzzy with regards to who the no.1 team in the province is.

There are a number of ways to rank the KZN Tier 1 teams.

To keep it simple, a pretty fair system of awarding 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss has been used below.…

Hilton pulled off a surprise by beating Michaelhouse and ending their visitors unbeaten run stretching back to 17 March 2012.

Hilton (17) 26:

Tries: Mark Gunn (2)

Conversions: Cameron Wright (2)

Penalties: Cameron Wright (4)

 

Michaelhouse (19) 22:

Try: Josh Moon

Conversion: Rob Anderson

Penalties: Rob Anderson (4)

Drop Goal: Rob Anderson

 Match report out soon.…

Maritzburg College will be celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2013. Plans for their rugby festival over Easter weekend are falling nicely into place.…

The Hilton-Michaelhouse derby is one of the best attended in the country.  Despite being a little out of the way, the match often attracts huge crowds with talk about 15000 and more spectators not unusual at all. …

What a good advert for schoolboy rugby this game turned out to be. With so much at stake in the form of the winner being crowned the number one KZN team for the season, Michaelhouse and Kearsney would have been forgiven for playing conservative, minimal risk rugby. …

Westville has organised two home games against touring English Independent schools at the start of the third term.…

The KwaZulu-Natal Craven Week and the Academy Week teams will get their first taste of action when they take on two Sharks Academy u19 Invitation teams at Kingspark on Monday, 18 June 2012 starting at 2:30pm.…

Saturday 16 June 2012 was the day meant to be set aside for an away trip to Mpumalanga to play the Pumas in a Craven Week warm-up game. Sadly this is not to be. The game had to be cancelled due to the unavailability of several selected players who still have school rugby commitments. As a result of the same obligations, a later trip to Bondedag has also been scratched.…

Love him or hate him, there is no getting around the fact that Barry Wilson has made a huge contribution to SBR in Durban over a few decades and deserves much respect for all he’s given back to the wonderful game.…

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The KZN u18 Schools players will enjoy a special privilege at Kings Park at 17h30 tonight when they are capped ahead of the prestigious Craven Week tournament that takes place in Port Elizabeth from 09-14 July 2012. Their first game up is on Day 1 against the always formidable Free State team.…

Michaelhouse and Kearsney meet up on the Meadows, Balgowan at 15h00 on Saturday 16 June 2012 in an unofficial final of sorts to decide the winners of KZN interschools season.…

Westville will kick start their prep for the 2013 when the field a team called the Stayers XV consisting of current u17 and u16 players in their match against Stirling High School from East London on Saturday.…