{"id":29020,"date":"2023-09-28T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.supersportschools.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:53:47","slug":"st-benedicts-college-emerge-victorious-at-kearsneys-basketball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29020","title":{"rendered":"St Benedict’s College emerge victorious at Kearsney’s Basketball-tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"St. Benedicts College recorded its first ever triumph at the Kearsney College’s Independent Stayers Basketball tournament over the long-weekend, defeating the highly decorated Maritzburg College in the final on Monday.<\/p>\n

The sport of basketball is on a steady rise in the African continent and South Africa is no different.<\/p>\n

Kearsney College hosted its Basketball Competition last weekend, where the country\u2019s top-schools gathered inland of the Kwazulu-Natal province with hopes of emerging with the prized silverware.<\/p>\n

The tournament stretched over a four-day period where eight teams progressed to the playoffs that were scheduled to take place on the final day of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Hosts Kearsney College, St Albans College, St Stithians College, Maritzburg College, St Benedicts College, Michaelhouse, St David\u2019s Marist and St John\u2019s College all made it to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The hopes of reaching a home semi-final were crashed by the visiting St Stithians College as Kearsney fell short in the quarter-final with the scorecard reading 46-34 in favour of the visitors.<\/p>\n

St Stithians College were the obvious favourites from the start of the tournament but when they faced Maritzburg College in the semi-final, they succumbed to a 42-38 defeat.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, St. Benedicts College were making a name for themselves as the tournament progressed after going into the competition as clear underdogs and dark horses.<\/p>\n

Having fought their way into the playoffs, St Benedicts made light work of St. Johns College in the quarter-finals beating them 42-39, before going on to thrash St. David\u2019s Marist by a whooping 47-20 score-line.<\/p>\n

With the final scheduled on the same day as the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there was very little time for Maritzburg College and St Benedicts College to regroup but the two teams were able to dig deep and produced a closely competed final.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the underdogs St Benedicts College walked away victorious with the scoreboard reading 55-43 in their favour.<\/p>\n

All the Results:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

GROUP STAGE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PLAY-OFFS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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