Overview Sporting Achievements
The past weekend saw the annual winter derby clash between two longstanding KwaZulu-Natal school rivals, Maritzburg College’s #RedBlackWhite vs the Glenwood “Green Machine”. With a full round of fixtures being played on Friday and Saturday, College emerged the overall victor, being undefeated on the hockey astro and winning 21 of their 23 rugby matches.
Rugby
College’s 23 rugby teams headed down to Durban to take on Glenwood in a 1st team rivalry which has continued for 176 years, with College winning 111 of the encounters.
College’s 1st XV secured a well-deserved 18-7 win in what was the inaugural match for the ‘James Dwyer Memorial Trophy’. The trophy has been offered by Glenwood and the Dwyer family in honour of their son/nephew, a Glenwood Old Boy killed in Afghanistan in 2002 while serving in the British Army. Congratulations to College’s Jake Jansen who was named Player of the Match.
1st XV match report (Mr Tim Orchard, 1st XV coach)
College travelled down to the Berea to take on Glenwood for their first fixture of the second term. The conditions were rather blustery and wet which made for a rather error strewn match. College started the stronger of the two teams, but Glenwood did have their moments and put College under pressure at times during the game.
College started strongly and managed to get onto the scoreboard after a powerful lineout maul allowed College to drive deep into Glenwood’s 22m area. After two quick phases, Raayke Maartens dived over for the first score of the match. The try was duly converted, and College looked good at 7-0 up after 11 minutes. Due to the conditions, the lineout maul would prove to be decisive as it again played a significant role in College’s second try of the game. Another powerful lineout maul from College caused the Glenwood defenders to be pulled in creating space out wide. This space was duly exploited by College’s speedy winger Langelihle Makhathini to dot down in the righthand corner. Glenwood hit back soon afterwards, and the match became an arm-wrestle for the remainder of the first half. The score stood at 12-7 with College ruing several spilt chances whilst Glenwood were beginning to revel in the dogfight that characterized the end of the half.
The second half was dominated by College in terms of territory and possession, but Glenwood still had enough fight to cause College to have some nervous moments. College, through the boot of James Slevin, extended their lead when two penalties were slotted over after Glenwood were adjudged to have infringed at the breakdown. These remained the only points of the match as both sides coughed up the ball with great regularity. After an error strewn half, College emerged with the win 18-7, much to the satisfaction of the travelling supporters in attendance.
Maritzburg College 18
Tries: Maartens, Makhathini
Conversion: Slevin
Penalties: Slevin x2
Glenwood: 7
Summary of results
| Team | Opposition | Result | |
| 1st | Glenwood | W 18-7 | |
| 2nd | Glenwood | D 17-17 | |
| 3rd | Glenwood | W 22-10 | |
| 4th | Glenwood | W 14-0 | |
| 5th | Glenwood | W 34-0 | |
| 6th | Glenwood | W 39-0 | |
| 7th | Glenwood | W 38-14 | |
| 16A | Glenwood | W 14-0 | |
| 16B | Glenwood | W 15-5 | |
| 16C | Glenwood | W 34-3 | |
| 16D | Glenwood | W 50-7 | |
| 16E | Glenwood | W 43-7 | |
| 15A | Glenwood | W 34-28 | |
| 15B | Glenwood | W 17-14 | |
| 15C | Glenwood | W 8-5 | |
| 15D | Glenwood | W 45-0 | |
| 15E | Glenwood | W 15-0 | |
| 14A | Glenwood | W 12-8 | |
| 14B | Glenwood | L 7-21 | |
| 14C | Glenwood | W 15-0 | |
| 14D | Glenwood | W 12-0 | |
| 14E | Glenwood | W 50-0 | |
| 14F | Glenwood | W 41-5 |
Hockey
College’s hockey teams won all 12 of their matches only conceding 6 goals and scoring an outstanding 63 goals.
1st XI match report (Mr Kyle Emerson, 1st XI coach)
The College 1st XI travelled down to Durban to play on Friday night, which always creates an exciting atmosphere. Due to four injuries, the 1st XI had four debutants in the team and the weather did not make things easy with gusty wind and sideways rain potentially disrupting the evening. However, this did not stop College from putting a dominant performance together.
As anticipated, the match begun with a high pace as both teams pressed high and moved the ball around the field with purpose, on the quick outfield. College created a few chances in the first quarter but were unable to beat the Glenwood goalkeeper.
It was only in the second quarter that the first goal came. Siwa Sithembu turned the ball over in midfield and played a superb, angled ball into the circle to find debutant Brett Hosking. With his first touch of the ball for the 1st XI, he received, he rolled it onto his backhand and fired a powerful shot past the Glenwood goalkeeper to give College the lead. Glenwood were unable to create a chance in the first half and had no meaningful circle entries.
The second half is when College really shifted a gear. Julian Konigkramer scored the second goal after the penalty corner was not stopped, it was passed to him and he hit an accurate back-hand into the goal. A few minutes later and the score would be 3-0 when Konigkramer claimed his second after his powerful drag-flick beat the goalkeeper.
College continued to pile on the pressure and if it wasn’t for the Glenwood goalkeeper, who came off his line with purpose and energy, the goals would have kept coming. It was in the 4th quarter that Brett Hosking slotted another ball into the goal after a good turnover on the half-way line from forward Banele Dlamini. The fifth goal came from another well worked press which saw the ball turned over deep and Banele Dlamini made the pass to Ethan Maynard on the far post who tapped it in to make it 5-0.
A convincing and strong performance from the College 1st XI who played to their strengths and moved the ball with purpose to find good connections and did not allow Glenwood to settle.
Summary of results
| Team | Opposition | Result |
| 1st | Glenwood | W 5-0 |
| 2nd | Glenwood | W 10-0 |
| 3rd | Glenwood | W 2-0 |
| 4th | Glenwood | W 5-0 |
| 16A | Glenwood | W 4-1 |
| 16B | Glenwood | W 2-1 |
| 16C | Glenwood | W 1-0 |
| 16D | Glenwood | W 9-2 |
| 14A | Glenwood | W 2-1 |
| 14B | Glenwood | W 12-1 |
| 14C | Glenwood | W 7-1 |
| 14D | Glenwood | W 1-0 |
Volleyball
College’s U16A volleyball team were in action over the weekend, and played two games, winning one and losing one.
vs Westville Boys B lost 2 – 1
vs George Campbell 16A won – 0