{"id":29396,"date":"2023-07-18T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hockey.supersportschools.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:02:45","slug":"cape-town-international-hockey-tournament-tips-off-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29396","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town International Hockey Tournament tips-off this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1651\" src=\"https:\/\/hockey.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/shutterstock_53451166-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/>This week (19-23 July 2023) the Mother City, Cape Town will play host to 64 teams from the likes of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom in a total of 244 matches across the week in the Cape Town International Hockey Tournament. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the SASHOC tournament just two weeks ago, many of the South African teams will be wanting to prove themselves up against their international counterparts in what is arguably the biggest international Under 18 Hockey tournament in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to stay updated through the SuperSport Schools website at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/supersportschools.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/supersportschools.com\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or channel 216 on DSTV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, the tournament has added a new section. Adding to the pre-existing \u2018Elite Section\u2019, incepted in 2003, this year will see introduction of an \u2018Evolve Section\u2019 comprising two pools of six teams each. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the \u2018Elite Section\u2019, Paarl Gymnasium and SACS, 2022 champions of the Girls and Boys factions, respectively, will seek to defend their titles under the lights of Hartleyvale Astro turf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus far, SACS has blazed a trail of note in the South African Hockey scene with seven of their players chosen to represent the Green-and-Gold (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rogan Stirk, Michael Cowen, Liam Haupt, Ozair Pillai, Josh Opperman and Michael Royden-Turner for SA U18A and Dean Carrick for SA U18B). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, in the conclusion of the SASHOC tournament, Rogan Stirk was awarded \u2018Goalkeeper of the Tournament\u2019, Michael Cowen as \u2018Defender of the tournament\u2019 along with being one of the top scorers and last, but not least, Michael Royden-Turner named \u2018Forward of the Tournament\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (19-23 July 2023) the Mother City, Cape Town will play host to 64 teams from the likes of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom in a total of 244 matches across the week in the Cape Town International Hockey Tournament. After the SASHOC tournament just two weeks ago, many of the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29396","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\/29396","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=29396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}