Unconvincing hosts Paarl Gym managed to pip HTS Drostdy 26-24 thanks to a Handré Pollard penalty right on the final whistle on a chilly but cloudless Saturday morning. Starting off in a positive mood, with no 8 Michael Murphy featuring prominently in several moves, none of which could pierce the resolute Drostdy defence, Gym...
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With the massive Gym-Boys’ High Interschools barely five days away, much of the focus will naturally be on the fortunes of these two sides last Saturday. But they can wait; pride of place last Saturday goes to Boland Landbou’s 22-15 win away to Rondebosch. Both sides had a lot to prove both to themselves and...
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Here we are barely a week away from Boishaai – Gym 2011. Forget form books, injury lists and that feeling granny gets in her joints before something earth-shattering occurs; this one goes down to the wire every time. In this final period of preparation, Gym face by far the harder task when they welcome HTS...
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Many an aficionado will tell you that one of the major attractions of the schoolboy game down south is that the competition between the top sides is so close that, on any given day, just about any side could beat any other, whatever the form book says. Saturday proved this contention, although many of the...
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Any thoughts Paarl Boys’ High might have had of a nice relaxed run-in to Interschools against Gimmies on 7 August went out of the window as they were made to sweat blood before seeing off enterprising visitors Oakdale 39-33 at Brug Street on Saturday. The match started quietly enough, apart from Boishaai losing Craven Week lock...
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English tourists Wellington College beat a slightly off-colour Rondebosch team 10-8 on Thursday to register the first victory of their short tour of South Africa. Five minutes after referee Jonathan Kaplan had started proceedings the home team went ahead with a sweetly-struck penalty from the boot of flyhalf William Keet, whose precise tactical kicking was all...
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Normally the first Saturday in the third term would be a massive anticlimax after the taken-for-granted success of the three Western Cape Craven Week sides. Not so in 2011 ! However Boland and the South Western Districts choose to cope with the fall-out from their sides’ patchy performances, this weekend marks the start of a...
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Rugby in South Africa is arguably one of the most fanatically supported sporting codes at schools level anywhere in the world. Where else do top level commentators regularly refer to players’ schools-of-origin almost as a matter of course? Passions run just that little bit higher in the Western Province, not only because it is the...
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The Bishops faithful – and there weren’t that many at 16:30 on a Tuesday – were treated to a riveting contest as the prestigious English school Wellington College kicked off their tour of South Africa at the Piley Rees field. That Bishops managed to hold out under enormous pressure to win 27-24 was frankly incidental....
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An enthusiastic crowd was treated to a second day of excellent rugby in perfect weather on Saturday 16 July, the second day of the Swartland Festival, the highlight being a thrilling 20-20 draw between HTS Drostdy and Tygerberg High which brought down the curtain on the six-match programme. The early kick-off yielded a somewhat surprising...
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