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Sporting Results: 16 March

Overview Sporting Achievements

Maritzburg College enjoyed an excellent start to the 2024 winter season – with strong performances on both the hockey and rugby fields played in the main against Clifton School. We also hosted Howick High School, St Charles College, Michaelhouse, Northwood School and Midlands Development.

College’s hockey teams were undefeated winning 11 of their 13 matches and drawing 2, with the added excitement of playing under lights on Pape’s for the first time. The rugby teams also enjoyed a great day of results, winning 22 of their 28 matches. The 1st and 2nd XV teams dominated with the 1st team winning 83-10 while the 2nd XV secured a 41-0 victory, much to the delight of the supporters on Goldstones and Basher Ridge.

Maritzburg College cyclists also shone at the Berg 100 race over the weekend with Brent Foster  finishing 1st overall and 1st in his age category.

 

Rugby

The rugby teams also enjoyed a great day of results, winning 22 of their 28 matches. The 1st and 2nd XV teams dominated with the 1st team winning 83-10 while the 2nd XV secured a 41-0 victory, much to the delight of the supporters on Goldstones and Basher Ridge.

Photo: Justin Waldman       

1st team report (Mr Tim Orchard, 1st XV coach)

On Saturday College played host to Clifton College for the first time ever on Goldstones on what was an extremely hot day both on and off the field. College was smarting after unexpected loss the previous weekend against Kearsney and looked for a better performance to finish off Term1.

The first half was a slow burner with College only leading 24-5 at the break after L Kunene opened the scoring after only four minutes into the half. The home side had to work hard to break down their opposition and gifted Clifton a try after a series of errors deep in their own half.

The second half’s performance matched the weather as College was red-hot on attack, scoring nine tries to Clifton’s one in a scintillating display of attacking rugby. Maritzburg College found great joy down the left-hand touchline as Clifton could not handle College’s skill with ball in hand. L. Kunene a further three tries to finish off with four in the match whilst L. Sinkfontein bagged himself a hattrick. James Slevin was lethal with the boot, converting ten tries in the game and grabbing himself a penalty as well.


Maritzburg College 83
Tries:
Kunene x4, Sinkfontein x3, Kemka x2, Nyathi, Mbatha and Slevin
Conversions: Slevin x10
Penalty: Slevin

Clifton 10                                                                                                                                 

Photo: D Becket

Summary of results

Team Opposition Score Result
1st Clifton 83-10 Won
2nd Clifton 41-0 Won
3rd Midlands Dev 42-7 Won
4th Howick 1st 15-5 Won
5th St Charles 3rds 33-10 Won
6th St Charles 4ths 29-0 Won
7th Clifton 3rds 34-10 Won
8th Michaelhouse 7th 30-19 Won
9th Michaelhouse 8th 12-14 Lost
10th Hilton 8th 41-10 Won
 
16A Clifton 50-3 Won
16B Midlands Dev 50-0 Won
16C Howick A 47-7 Won
16D Clifton B 45-10 Won
16F Michaelhouse 16E 19-20 Lost
 
15A Clifton 50-0 Won
15B Howick A 55-5 Won
15C Clifton B 67-12 Won
15D St Charles B / C 31-12 Won
15E Northwood 10-50 Lost
15F Northwood 12-17 Lost
 
14A Clifton 14-12 Won
14B Midlands Dev 48-0 Won
14C Howick A 19-4 Won
14D Clifton B 19-24 Lost
14E Northwood 50-0 Won
14F St Charles B / C 5-15 Lost
14G Northwood F 49-0 Won

 

 

Hockey

College’s hockey teams were undefeated winning 11 of their 13 matches and drawing 2, with the added excitement of playing under lights on Pape’s for the first time.

1st team report (Mr Kyle Emerson, 1st XI coach)

The stage was set for an exciting evening, as the College 1st XI played their first match under their newly installed lights on Pape’s Astro. The boarders, staff and many supporters came out in their numbers to support and enjoy a match on a Friday evening.

The Clifton 1st XI came out the blocks fast and tried to play a fast-paced game, which saw them move the ball well with some exciting build up play. College were equal to it and the first quarter didn’t see many chances created, as the two teams summed each other up.

Clifton earned the first penalty corner of the evening but their variation did not allow them to get a clean shot off and trouble Nic Holmes in goals.

College asserted themselves more in the third quarter where they started to turn more ball over from the Clifton defenders and their quick counter attacks proved difficult for the Clifton team to manage. A rare goalkeeping error, resulted in an unfortunate stoke being given to Clifton and yellow card to Holmes, after he had his helmet off when clearing a ball in open play. The Clifton player put it away and they took the lead in the 3rd quarter. College had a penalty corner that was well saved by the Clifton keeper as he moved quickly to his right and made a stick save. Clifton couldn’t clear the ball and a scramble in the 9-yard area saw debutant Rory Schirge react quickest to push the ball into the goal. The pressure piled up from College as they created a few more chances in the quarter, a ball being cleared off the line, and the Clifton keeper made a few saves off his line to keep the scores even.

Early in the 4th quarter, College capitalised on a good passage of buildup play and a left-sided circle entry saw Uyanda Dlamini hit a back-hand shot low and hard to the far post where Julian Konigkramer was well positioned to deflect the ball into the goal.

Fatigue started to set into both teams due to the high pace at which the match was played and the unforced errors started to creep in from both teams. A turnover on the halfway line allowed Clifton to launch a quick counter-attack and the striker received the ball at the top of the circle to calmly fire a precise back-hand into the bottom corner of the goal to level the scores.

A good battle that would see both teams ruing missed chances on the night to claim a victory, with a final score of 2-2.

Summary of results

Team Opposition Score Result
1st Clifton 2-2 Draw
2nd Clifton 5-0 Won
3rd Clifton 3-0 Won
4th Clifton 6-0 Won
 
16A Clifton 8-0 Won
16B Clifton 7-0 Won
16C Clifton 6-2 Won
16D Clifton 10-2 Won
16E Clifton 10-0 Won
 
14A Clifton 2-2 Draw
14B Clifton 4-0 Won
14C Clifton 8-0 Won
14D Clifton 10-0 Won
14E Clifton 10-0 Won

 

Cycling

College cyclists excelled at the Berg50 race over the weekend.

  • Brent Foster 1st overall and 1st in his age category
  • Kayden Searle 3rd overall and 1st in his age category
  • Michael Jewaskiewitz 4th overall and 3rd in his age category.

 

Canoeing

Well done to two of College canoeists who competed in this weekend’s  Umko Challege, finishing in the top three places in their categories.

U18: James Gotte & (partner – Rory Treleven) 1st
U23 Mixed doubles: Jack Odell & (partner- Jess Behn) 3rd

 

Volleyball

College boys participated in a pre- season volleyball tournament this week, playing four games and winning two.

College beat New Forest 1st team by 2 sets to 1
College lost to Westville Boys 2nd team by 2 sets to 1
College beat George Campbell 1st team by 2 sets to 1
College lost to Westville Boys 1st team by 2 sets to 0

Summary of Results
Played 4, Won 2, Lost 2