Overview Sporting Achievements
There are few schools with grounds big enough to host an MTB event – but Maritzburg College’s stunning 25 hectare campus certainly is! On Saturday, College was proud to host the KZN Schools Mountain Biking League #3 event, as part of the 160th celebrations, which saw hundreds of MTB cyclists taking part, tackling the course around the school grounds, which included some challenging ramps and a floating bridge! Well done to the boys who spent many hours helping build the exciting course.
This weekend saw Maritzburg College’s 1st XI soccer team take on Westville while our U17 and U15 rugby sevens teams travelled to DHS for their second tournament. College’s canoeists took part in the Dolphin Coast Surfski championships, winning two medals, and the squash teams secured convincing wins against Pretoria Boys High School.
Rugby 7s
For their second tournament of the year, College’s U17 7’s team progressed to the plate semi-final after winning three of their matches and losing one, where they lost to St Charles.
The College U15 7’s team won their pool matches progressing to the quarter final where they beat Northwood B. They also won their semi-final against Michaelhouse, but lost narrowly to Northwood A in the final to finish in 2nd place.
Soccer
Sixteen College teams took on Westville on the weekend, with good wins for the 1st, 3rd and 4th teams as well as the U16A and U15A sides.
U14A drew 2-2
U14B lost 0-5
U14C lost 2-6
U14D lost 0-10
U15A won 1-0
U15B won 2-1
U15C drew 2-2
U15D lost 0-4
U16A won 3-1
U16B drew 0-0
U16C lost 0-2
U16D lost 0-1
4ths won 2-1
3rds won 3-1
2nds lost 1-3
1sts won 1-0
Canoeing
At the two-day Dolphin Coast KZN Surfski championships, held at Umdloti, College secured two medals.
U16 and U18
Keegan Vogt and Jayden Janse van Rensburg – 1st and 17th overall
U18
Luke O’Connor and Ty Heyns – 2nd and 35th overall
Squash
The College squash team played a touring Pretoria Boys High team with convincing wins for both the 1st and 2nd teams;
1st team won 5-1
2nd team won 4-2