The Golden Lions and Free State beat SWD and Easter Province, respectively on the second day of the Coca-Cola Craven Week in Polokwane on Tuesday and in the process have likely set themselves up for what will be a semifinal in all but name on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Although the Craven Week is not supposed to be knockout tournament, the race for the tournament\u2019s only prize \u2013 a spot in Saturday\u2019s final game of the week is fought between the big guns and the winners of Monday\u2019s late games \u2013 The Blue Bulls and Western Province – meet on Wednesday, with the winners there probably going through to play the winners of the Free State v Lions clash in Saturday\u2019s main game.<\/p>\n
There were plenty of points scored on the second day of play, with one game drawn and several high-scoring thrillers.<\/p>\n
The drawn game was a 37-all thriller between the Valke and Griffons, while the Golden Lions and SWD scored seven tries between them as the Lions ran out 34-27 winners.<\/p>\n
The fortunes of the two sides fluctuated throughout the game \u2013 the Lions were well in control in the beginning,<\/p>\n
while SWD looked like they were going to win early in the second half.<\/p>\n
In the end it was solid defense and the good goal-kicking of flyhalf Erwin Harris that saw them home.<\/p>\n
EP put up a brave fight against, they led at half time and looked capable of winning it, but they faded in the last quarter as the big Free State forwards took control, helping their side to a 32-21 win.<\/p>\n
Eastern Province Country Districts beat the Northwest Leopards 35-10 in the early game, and Griquas Country Districts were too strong for Border Country Districts, beating them 51-0.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s Results<\/strong><\/p>\n Eastern Province CD 35 Leopards 10<\/p>\n Griquas CD 51 Border CD 0 Wednesday\u2019s Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:30 Namibia v Griquas<\/p>\n 11:00 Limpopo Blue Bulls v Zimbabwe Thursday’s Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:30 Leopards vs Border CD<\/p>\n 11:00 Valke vs Griquas CD The Golden Lions and Free State beat SWD and Easter Province, respectively on the second day of the Coca-Cola Craven Week in Polokwane on Tuesday and in the process have likely set themselves up for what will be a semifinal in all but name on Thursday. Although the Craven Week is not supposed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26977","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\/26977","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=26977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nValke 37 Griffons 37
\nGolden Lions 34 SWD 27
\nFree State 32 E Province 21<\/p>\n
\n12:30 Boland v Border
\n14:00 KwaZulu-Natal v Pumas
\n15:30 Blue Bulls v Western Province<\/p>\n
\n12:30 Griffons vs Eastern Province CD
\n14:00 Eastern Province vs South Western Districs
\n15:30 Free State vs Lions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"