{"id":29341,"date":"2023-05-11T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hockey.supersportschools.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2023-05-11T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:48:09","slug":"jeppe-aiming-for-their-seventh-successive-title-in-the-aitken-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29341","title":{"rendered":"Jeppe aiming for their seventh successive title in the Aitken Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1186\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Aitken-Boden-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" \/>Arguably two of the biggest and most competitive schools hockey tournaments in South Africa kicks off this weekend namely, the Aitken Trophy and Boden Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the action live on <strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/AitkenCup2023\">www.supersportschools.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having been incepted in 1974 the prestigious <strong>Aitken Trophy<\/strong> is once again, up for grabs. A total 38 teams will strive to clutch the title from the defending champions, <strong>Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong>, having won the u18 grand prize in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Playing host to the tournament include the likes of St Stithians College, Redhill School, Crawford International: Lonehill and Trinity House Little Falls. The latter eluding to magnitude of this championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tournament structure will consist of pool matches of two 20-minute halves on Friday <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and play-offs of four 12-minute chukkas on Saturday the 13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boden cup will feature many of the top u15 teams in the Gauteng region which will surely provide a great glimpse into the talented future of Schools Hockey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boden Cup will be being hosted by Jeppe High School for Boys, St Johns College, Ho\u00ebrskool Linden, Reddam Bedfordview and Reddam Waterfall. The match structure will mimic that of the Aitken Trophy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Schedule for Aitken and Boden Cup Clashes<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Aitken Cup<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>12 May 2023\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>07:30 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0St Stithians College\u00a0vs\u00a0Beaulieu College; <strong>07:45 &#8211;<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeppe High School for Boys<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vs<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parktown Boys&#8217; High;\u00a0<\/span><strong>08:35 &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St John&#8217;s College<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vs<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noordheuwel;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>08:20 &#8211;<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Edward VII<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vs<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St Benedict\u2019s College;<\/span>\u00a0<strong>09:15 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Helpmekaar\u00a0vs\u00a0Fourways; <strong>0<\/strong><strong>9:30 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0St David\u2019s Marist\u00a0vs\u00a0Linden; <strong>10:05 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0CBC Boksburg\u00a0vs\u00a0Krugersdorp High; <strong>10:25 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Northcliff vs\u00a0Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge;<strong>\u00a011:00 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0St Stithians College\u00a0vs\u00a0Helpmekaar;<strong>\u00a011:15 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Jeppe High School for Boys\u00a0vs\u00a0St David\u2019s Marist; <strong>11:50 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0King Edward VII\u00a0vs\u00a0CBC Boksburg;\u00a0<strong>12:05 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>St John&#8217;s College\u00a0vs\u00a0Northcliff;\u00a0<strong>12:45 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Beaulieu College\u00a0vs\u00a0Fourways;\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>13:00 &#8211;<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parktown Boys&#8217; High<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vs<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linden; <\/span><strong>13:35 &#8211;<\/strong> St Benedict\u2019s College\u00a0vs\u00a0Krugersdorp High;\u00a0<strong>13:50 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Noordheuwel\u00a0vs\u00a0Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge; <strong>14:30 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>St Stithians College\u00a0vs\u00a0Fourways;\u00a0<strong>14:45 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Jeppe High School for Boys\u00a0vs\u00a0Linden; <strong>15:20 &#8211; <\/strong>King Edward VII\u00a0vs\u00a0Krugersdorp High;\u00a0<strong>15:35 &#8211;<\/strong> St John&#8217;s College\u00a0vs\u00a0Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge;\u00a0<strong>16:15 &#8211;<\/strong> Beaulieu College\u00a0vs\u00a0Helpmekaar; <strong>16:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Parktown Boys&#8217; High\u00a0vs\u00a0St David\u2019s Marist;\u00a0<strong>17:05 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0St Benedict\u2019s College\u00a0vs\u00a0CBC Boksburg; <strong>17:20 &#8211;<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noordheuwel<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vs<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northcliff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably two of the biggest and most competitive schools hockey tournaments in South Africa kicks off this weekend namely, the Aitken Trophy and Boden Cup. Catch all the action live on SuperSport Schools (www.supersportschools.com). Having been incepted in 1974 the prestigious Aitken Trophy is once again, up for grabs. A total 38 teams will strive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29341","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\/29341","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}