{"id":29388,"date":"2023-06-30T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hockey.supersportschools.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:33:49","slug":"southern-free-state-takes-home-the-gold-medal-at-saschoc-u18-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29388","title":{"rendered":"Southern Free State takes home the gold medal at SASCHOC u18 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1656\" src=\"https:\/\/hockey.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/shutterstock_1383747434-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" \/>A skillful team led by a determined coach, Gyster van Schalkwyk has put in the amount of work and dedication to be able to wear the golden medals around their necks today with pride.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Southern Free State A team has played seven games and won six of them throughout the six-day SASHOC u18 girls national tournament and had only drawn with the same team they met with in the finals, Boland A.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both teams were undefeated going into the final game. Knowing that only one team would be going home with the gold, both teams put up an undeniable good fight for the win resulting in neither of the teams being able to add to the scoreboard throughout the whole game leading to penalty shootouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anine Le Roux and Tanya Pieterse had been able to get the ball past Southern Free State A goalie, Joanie Taljaard appointing Boland A with two successful penalty goals whereas top goal scorer of the tournament, Taheera Augousti claimed one goal alongside Carien de Wet and Kayla Olivier against the Boland A team goalie, Lilly-Anne Theron securing the golden medal for the Southern Free State A team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other games the\u00a0 KZN Inland A team walked away with the bronze medal scoring one goal each from Reese Pieterse and Ella Shuttelworth against Western Province A. Despite Western Province&#8217;s best efforts to get back into the game with a goal from Mia Andrew in the fifty-seventh minute, KZN Inland A had already claimed the 2-1 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the Southern Gauteng A team secured their placing in the top five of the tournament with one goal from Juliana Million against Eastern Province A who placed sixth overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Results | Day 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>KZN Inland A 2 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Reese Peters, Ella Shuttelworth); <\/span><b>Western Province A 1 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mia Andrew)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Northern Gauteng A 1 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dinah Motileni);<\/span> Southern Gauteng B 0.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Northern Free State 3 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Jennifer Wessels, Jani du Preez, Carli Oosthuizen);\u00a0<\/span><b>Mpumalanga A 2 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Nolizwi Mlangeni (2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>KZN Coastal A 2 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Emily Macquet, Ruby Kraus);<\/span><b> 1 Amathole A (Michelle Barnes)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Southern Gauteng A 1 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Juliana Million);<\/span><b> Eastern Province A 0.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Southern Free State A 0 (3) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Taheera Augousti, Carien de Wet, Kayla Olivier);\u00a0<\/span><b>Boland A 0 (2) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Anine Le Roux, Tanya Pieterse).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Final placings | SASHOC u18 Girls <\/b><b>national<\/b><b> tournament\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1<\/b><b>st<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern Free State A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>2<\/b><b>nd<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boland A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>3<\/b><b>rd<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KZN Inland A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>4<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western Province A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>5<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern Gauteng A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>6<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eastern Province A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>7<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KZN Coastal A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>8<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amathole A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>9<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Gauteng A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>10<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern Gauteng B<br \/>\n<\/span><b>11<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Free State A<br \/>\n<\/span><b>12<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> place \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mpumalanga A<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skillful team led by a determined coach, Gyster van Schalkwyk has put in the amount of work and dedication to be able to wear the golden medals around their necks today with pride.\u00a0 The Southern Free State A team has played seven games and won six of them throughout the six-day SASHOC u18 girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":29070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29388","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\/29388","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}