{"id":16441,"date":"2023-06-12T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:27:28","slug":"kearsney-failed-to-finish-their-season-on-a-high-against-hilton-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=16441","title":{"rendered":"Kearsney failed to finish their season on a high against Hilton College"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16442\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16442\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kearsneys-Chad-Croshaw-in-the-game-against-Hilton--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kearsneys-Chad-Croshaw-in-the-game-against-Hilton--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kearsneys-Chad-Croshaw-in-the-game-against-Hilton--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kearsneys-Chad-Croshaw-in-the-game-against-Hilton-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: Hannah Shirley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The curtain came down on Kearsney College\u2019s rugby season with a clash against old foe Hilton College. Hilton showed their class as they gave away nothing in the first half, starting and ending it with a clinical display of forward power and territorial dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Being 16-0 down at halftime, Kearsney had to dig deep to stage a fight back.; and with only 35 minutes remaining, fight is exactly what they did.\u00a0 Following a scrum on the half-way line, an accurate backline strike sparked their revival.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Eager sliced through the Hilton defence, feeding the ball to Cameron Veenstra who raced for the corner.\u00a0 Desperate defence from Hilton kept Kearsney from a spectacular try. However, this was the momentum which the hosts needed.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure on the ensuing Hilton lineout led to a turnover for Kearsney.\u00a0 Hammering away at Hilton\u2019s goal line, tighthead prop Anele Cele stormed over with a powerful carry for Kearsney\u2019s opening try.\u00a0 Eager slotted the conversion.<\/p>\n<p>The next 15 minutes was all Kearsney, as Hilton had to repel wave after wave of attacks.\u00a0 As displayed all season, the visitors\u2019 defence held firm and, after absorbing all the pressure, they struck back with a powerful display of forward play, to take the wind out of Kearsney\u2019s sails and the score to 23-7.<\/p>\n<p>Kearsney immediately struck back with a try from the impact player off the bench, Sange Mdunyelwa.<\/p>\n<p>However, a penalty from the kick-off resulted in another opportunity for Hilton\u2019s forwards to power over, taking the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>The final whistle came as Kearsney was again throwing everything at Hilton on their try line.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton College was an excellent opponent and deserved victors, walking away with a 28-12 win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain came down on Kearsney College\u2019s rugby season with a clash against old foe Hilton College. Hilton showed their class as they gave away nothing in the first half, starting and ending it with a clinical display of forward power and territorial dominance. Being 16-0 down at halftime, Kearsney had to dig deep to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16441","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\/16441","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}