When you consider that not that many people in rugby circles actually know where Porterville is, the local chamber of commerce must be immensely grateful to the school’s 1st XV, the Bulls, in general and SA Schools rugby cap Andrew Beerwinkel in particular for helping to put this beautiful little town on the South African...
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Don’t be fooled into thinking that, just because the Western Cape season ended with a mere handful of matches, it was any less dramatic a Saturday than any other in six months of magnificent schoolboy rugby. There were some huge derbies – Rondebosch vs Bishops and Wynberg vs SACS for traditional reasons; Tygerberg vs Brackenfell as...
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Three new champions were crowned at the Burger finals at Brug Street in Paarl on Saturday. Paarl Boys’ High repeated their success of 2007 by beating Oakdale 24-13 in the large schools division, the medium schools title went to Nico Malan (18-16 winners in quite astonishing circumstances against Schoonspruit) and Hawston held on to claim...
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With apologies to, inter alia, Boishaai, Oakdale, SACS and Wynberg, the major question on the lips of Western Cape rugby followers is whether or not Rondebosch can inflict double misery on Bishops when the Platinum Blues visit Canigou Avenue for the traditional end of season showdown. Buoyed by memories of their convincing 34-18 on the...
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Grey College might have edged Paul Roos 36-35 in Stellenbosch, Rondebosch might have tamed visitors Wynberg 22-19 and Paarl Boys’ High might be celebrating a 22-13 away victory against HTS Drostdy, but the result of the weekend – some might say, the year – was SACS’ sensational 20-13 comeback over Bishops up in leafy Newlands. Although...
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While schools rugby followers down south have to wait till Saturday to see who represents the WP/Boland area against Oakdale in the large school section of the Burger competition, the region’s small and medium school finalists were decided at the Malmesbury Rugby Club grounds on Wednesday. In the late game Schoonspruit held just too much firepower for...
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This Saturday represents the end of the season for most schools teams in the three Western Cape provinces, with only some ten matches scheduled for 27 August. With the Paul Roos-Grey Bloem facedown being handled more fully in another article, the local focus is firmly on Worcester, where HTS Drostdy receive Paarl Boys’ High. As if...
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Schoonspruit survived a few nervous moments early on to run out comfortable 41-13 winners in their Burger medium schools match against Hermanus at the Wesbank grounds in Malmesbury on Monday. After the sides had taken a few minutes to size each other up in the lovely warm conditions, it was Hermanus who drew first blood...
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Two very different southern suburbs derbies characterized the third last Saturday of the WP schools rugby season. While hosts SACS and Rondebosch shared a miserly three tries, the visitors taking the laurels 10-5, the Piley Rees meeting between Bishops and Wynberg yielded a real humdinger, the Platinum Blues stealing home 34-33. The latter game was not...
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Paarl Boys’ High managed to keep their bogey side, Boland Landbou, scoreless in the second half to win a dogged encounter 19-12 in chilly, damp conditions at Brug Street on Saturday. The hosts started out brightly enough, even if it did take three kicks at goal for full back Rhyno Smith to open the scoring. Then,...
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