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Glenwood beats Maritzburg College 37-12 – match report 2018
The visiting Glenwood 1st XV lived up to their top billing by producing an awesome exhibition of old school running rugby to record a comfortable 37-12 victory on Goldstones. …
Maritzburg College beats St Charles 32-12 – match report 2018
Compiled with the help of Maritzburg College and St Charles College…
Kearsney beats Northwood 23-22 – match report 2018
Compiled with the aid of the match report by Kearsney College:…
Westville beats Michaelhouse 31-20 – match report 2018
It’s a cliché but this really was an advert for schoolboy rugby. It involved non-stop action between two evenly matched teams who pitted different strengths and weaknesses against each other.…
Kearsney vs Michaelhouse – preview 2018
While the other major KZN rugby schools are still involved in preseason activities, Kearsney and Michaelhouse will go at it in the first big match of the KZN regular season, one weekend before the scheduled start.…
Sharks Rugby Day 2018
The reignition of the Sharks Rugby Day will be a fairly low key affair but well worth it for SBR supporters.
Each match is a 20-minute long chukka.
| SLOT | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | INFO | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11h50 | Sat.10Mar | Westville | <5> | <5> | Glenwood | |
| 12h30 | Sat.10Mar | Maritzburg College | <0> | <0> | DHS | |
| 12h55 | Sat.10Mar | Maritzburg College | <7> | <10> | Westville | |
| 13h20 | Sat.10Mar | Glenwood | <3> | <3> | DHS | |
| 13h45 | Sat.10Mar | Westville | <0> | <14> | DHS | |
| 14h10 | Sat.10Mar | Glenwood | <7> | <0> | Maritzburg College |
Hilton reverses decision to dump DHS in favour of T20 cricket
Old Blog from before the letter above was written.
Hilton has let DHS know that their 1st XV interschools fixture which had been set last year sometime at the annual KZNRU High …
Glenwood rugby fixtures for 2018
The Glenwood fixture list as published here Glenwood fixtures link on their website makes for interesting reading. …
Michaelhouse rugby guru gets the Paul Roos top job
Michaelhouse’s Head of Sport Ryno Combrinck, who is widely acknowledged as being one of the best schoolboy rugby coaches in South Africa has been appointed as the Paul Roos Head of Rugby starting in 2018.…
Glenwood letter details reasons for cancelling PE trip
Two weeks ago Glenwood sent this letter below to Framesby to notify them of the Durban school’s decision to cancel their fixture.…
KZN final trials teams 2017
At Woodburn Stadium, Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday 24 May 2017…
KZN top 3 privates schools all square in their 2017 derbies
KZN’s big-3 private schools Hilton, Kearsney and Michaelhouse each has a homesoil win to their credit following their head to head interschools matches. Hilton has a round two to come against Kearsney and Michaelhouse this season.…
KZN u18 Main Trials teams 2017
At Woodburn Stadium on Monday 15 May 2017…
Westville sport official apologises to ref for outburst
A letter has appeared on the Westville Boys’ High School website in which director of sport Sharmin Naidoo apologises to former International referee and current Glenwood parent Marius Jonker for an “outburst” at Glenwood on 22 April 2017.…
DHS beats Michaelhouse 29-24 in memorable 2017 match
Van Heerden’s Field on the Berea was the setting of one of South African schoolboy’s many great adverts, when hosts Durban High School and Michaelhouse from Balgowan in the Midlands of Natal, combined to put on 70-minutes of virtually non-stop positive entertaining rugby action, with the home team emerging as 29-24 victors.…
Dick Muir linked with soon to be vacant Northwood job
Latest : officially confirmed – Dick Muir will take charge at Northwood.
Former Springbok centre and fairly accomplished senior rugby coach Dick Muir could well become the next high profile head coach at Northwood in Durban North. …
Grey College beats Maritzburg College 30-3 – match report 2017
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 & Michaelhouse to take part in UK u18 Sevens tournaments
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.
Video of matches here : Rugby School International u18 Sevens …
Grey Bloem heads to KZN to play Maritzburg College
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?”…
Another DHS Rugby Day in 2017
Event Name: Trevor Bennison Rugby Day
Date: Wednesday 22 March 2017
| TIME | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2pm | George Campbell | Kloof | ||
| 3pm | Hilton | Clifton | ||
| 4pm | Glenwood | Voortrekker | ||
| 5pm | DHS | Port Natal |
Hilton’s white wall denies DHS any tryline access in 10-6 win
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.…
KZN : 2 big clashes to start the local interschools season
DHS versus Hilton and Michaelhouse versus Westville will take centre stage in KwaZulu-Natal schoolboy rugby this coming weekend.…
Boksmart crackdown at Vories Night Series
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:…
Voortrekker (Vories) Night Series 2017
Please note changes to the programme
| TIME | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | 03-Mar | Vories u16 | DHS u16 | ||
| 14:55 | 03-Mar | Carter | Linpark | ||
| 15:50 | 03-Mar | Vories 3 | Greytown | ||
| 16:45 | 03-Mar | DHS 2 | Westville 2 | ||
| 17:40 | 03-Mar | Vories 2 | 28 | 27 | Howick |
| 18:35 | 03-Mar | Maritzburg College u16 | 17 | 13 | Westville u16 |
| 19:30 | 03-Mar | DHS 1 | 12 | 18 | Westville 1 |
| 20:35 | 03-Mar | Vories 1 | 0 | 26 | Maritzburg College 1 |
| 14:00 | 10-Mar | Carter 1 | Vories 3 | ||
| 14:55 | 10-Mar | Treverton 1 | Linpark 1 | ||
| 15:50 | 10-Mar | Vories u16 | Westville u16 | ||
| 16:45 | 10-Mar | Sarel Cilliers 2 | Westville 2 | ||
| 17:40 | 10-Mar | Vories 2 | Weston 1 | ||
| 18:35 | 10-Mar | Maritzburg College u16 | Sarel Cilliers u16 | ||
| 19:30 | 10-Mar | Maritzburg College XV | Sarel Cilliers 1 | ||
| 20:25 | 10-Mar | Pom – Pom’s | |||
| 20:35 | 10-Mar | Vories 1 | Westville 1 |