{"id":14959,"date":"2023-04-27T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2023-04-27T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:43:13","slug":"menlopark-celebrates-their-60th-birthday-with-action-packed-rugby-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=14959","title":{"rendered":"Menlopark celebrates their 60th birthday with action packed rugby festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHOTO: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Menlopark is not missing out on the action this weekend, as they have their very own festival lined up. There will be no shortage of heavyweight matchups as they celebrate their 60<\/span>th<\/span> birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Waterkloof and Transvalia kick off for the opening first team game on Saturday<\/span>. Waterkloof is surely still buzzing after their Noord-Suid performance, where they bagged two victories and managed to remain undefeated this season. <\/span><\/p>\n

After beating HTS Drostdy 22-19 and Glenwood 32-28, their focus will be not only on more victories, but more sizeable and distant victories. <\/span><\/p>\n

Transvalia also has some wins to their name this year, most notably, beating Klerksdorp (26-15) this month and Nelspruit (32-27) <\/span>in March. Both schools should bring their A-game if they want to come out on top.<\/span><\/p>\n

H\u00f6erskool Trio and Heidelberg Volkskool take the field for the second game of day one. H\u00f6erskool Trio may be a young school, but a legacy needs to start somewhere. Trio showed their dominance when they defeated Hentie Cilliers (38-7) just last week. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trio also came out on top against Potch Gim and ended the game at 38-20 in their favour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heidelberg has managed to rack up six wins so far, also defeating Potch Gim recently at 38-8 in Heidelberg\u2019s favour. This pairing has the makings of some very interesting rugby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The final game of day one sees the hosts, Menlopark, take on Noord-Kaap. A mammoth win always unifies a team and usually propels them forward. This should be the case for Menlopark, after earning an excellent victory over Nelspruit, finishing the game at 64-0 in favour of Menlopark. <\/span><\/p>\n

They now have the extra edge of playing on their home turf, which makes this even more interesting. Noord-Kaap has earned some strong wins of their own this season, most recently, beating Louis Botha (38-0). <\/span><\/p>\n

Both schools will be fighting to increase their successful outcomes for the year, and it may well be a very competitive game of rugby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n

Saturday, 29<\/b>th<\/b> April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

08:00 –<\/b> u14 –<\/strong> Menlopark vs Noord-Kaap
\n<\/span>09:00 – <\/b>u14 –<\/strong> Waterkloof vs Transvalia
\n<\/span>10:00 – <\/b>u14 –<\/strong> H\u00f6erskool Trio vs Heidelberg Volkskool
\n<\/span>11:00 – <\/b>u15 –<\/strong> Menlopark vs H\u00f6erskool Noord-Kaap
\n<\/span>12:00 – <\/b>u15 –<\/strong> Transvalia vs Waterkloof
\n<\/span>13:00 –<\/b> u15 -Heidelberg Volkskool vs H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>14:00 – <\/b>u16 –<\/strong> Menlopark vs Noord-Kaap
\n<\/span>15:00 –<\/b> u16 – Transvalia vs Waterkloof
\n<\/span>16:00 – <\/b>u16 –<\/strong> Heidelberg Volkskool vs H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>17:00 u19 –<\/b> Transvalia vs <\/span>Waterkloof
\n<\/span>18:15 – u19 –<\/b>\u00a0Heidelberg Volkskool vs <\/span>H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>19:30 u19 – <\/b>Menlopark vs <\/span>Noord-Kaap\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, 1<\/b>st<\/b> May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

08:00 – <\/b>u14 – Noord-Kaap vs Waterkloof
\n<\/span>09:00 – <\/b>u15 – Noord-Kaap vs Waterkloof
\n<\/span>10:00 – <\/b>u16 – Noord-Kaap vs Waterkloof
\n<\/span>11:00 – u19 –<\/b> Noord-Kaap vs <\/span>Waterkloof
\n<\/span>12:15 – <\/b>u14 – Transvalia vs H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>13:15 – <\/b>u15 –<\/span> Transvalia vs H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>14:15 – <\/b>u16 – Transvalia vs H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>15:15 – u19 –<\/b> Transvalia vs <\/span>H\u00f6erskool Trio
\n<\/span>16:30 – <\/b>u14 – Menlopark vs Heidelberg Volkskool
\n<\/span>17:30 – <\/b>u15 – Menlopark vs Heidelberg Volkskool
\n<\/span>18:30 – <\/b>u16 – Menlopark vs Heidelberg Volkskool
\n<\/span>19:30 – u19 –<\/b>\u00a0Menlopark vs <\/span>Heidelberg Volkskool<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Menlopark is not missing out on the action this weekend, as they have their very own festival lined up. There will be no shortage of heavyweight matchups as they celebrate their 60th birthday. Waterkloof and Transvalia kick off for the opening first team game on Saturday. Waterkloof is surely still buzzing after their Noord-Suid performance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}