As we head into the school holidays, let’s have a look at the scoring statistics of the season to date. Top of the local (Western Cape) pile is Tygerberg High’s flyhalf Dewald Claassen with 163 points (3 tries, 16 penalties, 50 conversions), followed, surpringly enough, by Porterville tighthead Andrew Beerwinkel on 140 (8, 2, 47). Tim...
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Get ready for the fab four ! Bishops entertain Rondebosch, Paul Roos head out to Boland Landbou, Oakdale travel down south to play Paarl Gym and, in arguably the most keenly anticipated fixture of the lot, Tygerberg welcome Paarl Boys’ High. Youth Day, 16 June, falls on a Thursday this year, handing schools yet another...
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The biennial Cape Schools Rugby Week is being hosted by Dale College in Kingwilliamstown as part of the celebrations of that proud institution’s 150th year of existence. The festival runs from Saturday 25 to Wednesday 29 June 2011, with matches being played on the Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. The programme sees SACS, Wynberg, Rondebosch, Paarl Gym...
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Last week the Boland matches threw up an armload of surprises. However, those results were predictable compared to the WP super league’s lucky packet on Saturday 11 June as three of the games – all four, if you happen to be a die-hard Tygerberg supporter – set the form-book on fire. Four games, 247 points, you...
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A misty Paarl morning welcomed Oakdale; a decidedly warmer afternoon bade them farewell. That pretty well sums up the 1st XV match between the visitors and Paarl Gym on the latter’s Jan Kriel field: fairly sedate at the start, but packed with red-hot action towards the end. Gym never trailed and finally took the...
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Indeed, it was. In the heavy artillery (WP super league) division Paarl Boys’ High beat Paul Roos 20-18 and Gym’s second-half exertions saw them home 27-10 at Boland Landbou, while in the field battery (Boland) section New Orleans thrashed Vredenburg 54-3 and little Labori trounced Parel Vallei 47-12 The three WP all-super-league clashes didn’t really yield any...
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