{"id":15906,"date":"2023-05-26T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=15906"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:00:16","slug":"can-bennies-make-it-two-from-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=15906","title":{"rendered":"Can Bennies make it two from two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15907\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15907\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/St-Bennies-Frans-Lombard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/St-Bennies-Frans-Lombard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/St-Bennies-Frans-Lombard-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/St-Bennies-Frans-Lombard.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St Benedict\u2019s College will be looking to win the return fixture against rivals St Albans College. The first leg played out on Moshahe Field earlier this season where St Benedict&#8217;s won narrowly 25-20, where an evenly contested match played out in the Jacaranda City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However both teams are coming into this weekend\u2019s fixture looking at changing their fortunes from last weekend&#8217;s disappointing results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St Albans lost to St Stithians 31-24, but will remain positive having beaten Clifton College from Kwa-Zulu Natal prior to that 22-10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pretoria Boys\u2019 High School gave St Benedict&#8217;s a tough time winning the match 38-19 away last weekend. The Bedfordview side have shown improvement since the start of the season where they had a difficult\u00a0 outing at the St John&#8217;s College Easter Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall both teams have struggled to build any sort of winning momentum this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St Benedicts will draw inspiration from skipper<\/span><b> Sabelo Shangase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who has displayed his natural ability to control a game, ensuring that he leads from the front, directing his side like a conductor in front of their orchestra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All eyes will be on attacking fullback <\/span><b>Onkgopotse Monahenge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, according to his coach<\/span><b> Andrew Barnes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u2018Onkgopotse has the ability to kick the ball a country mile!\u2019 He is well supported in the back three by both wingers <\/span><b>Ntelezi Mchunu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Nathi Beda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hoops have made a few changes to their team, with <\/span><b>Joshua Verster<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> moving into the number nine jersey. He has played most of the season as the sides flyhalf.<\/span><b> Druan Visage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> moves into the all important number ten position, where he will look to put the backline into scoring positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expect another tightly contested match with both teams eyeing a victory. The Hoops will be out to prove that they have the ability to win away from home and St Benidicts will be looking to leverage their home advantage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The teams:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>St Benedict&#8217;s College: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 Onkgopotse Monaheng, 14 Ntelezi Mchunu, 13 Raymond Hassim, 12 Uche Ejike, 11\u00a0 Nathi Beda, 10 Jason Pengelley, 9 Sabelo Shangase (captain), 8 Jason Cutler, 7 Thando Jadezweni, 6 Byron Smit, 5 Declan Murphy, 4 Luke Carr, 3 Jack Brewer, 2 Victor Goncalves , 1 Daniel Walsh (vice-captain).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>St Alban&#8217;s College: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 John-Joshua Steenkamp, 14 Michael Rider, 13 James Edwards, 12 Luke Sass (vice-captain), 11 Nkosi Malaza, 10 Druan Visage , 9 Josh Verster, 8 Daniel Bouwer, 7 Matthew Peirce, 6 Patrick Weir, 5\u00a0 Alex Yeatman, 4 William von Broembsen, 3 Craig Milne, 2\u00a0 Luke Webber (captain), 1 Cody Petersen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u16A &#8211; 10:00 (A Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u19B &#8211;\u00a0 11:00 (A Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u19A &#8211; 12:00\u00a0 (A Field)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Benedict\u2019s College will be looking to win the return fixture against rivals St Albans College. The first leg played out on Moshahe Field earlier this season where St Benedict&#8217;s won narrowly 25-20, where an evenly contested match played out in the Jacaranda City.\u00a0 However both teams are coming into this weekend\u2019s fixture looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15906","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\/15906","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}