{"id":29724,"date":"2023-07-17T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football.supersportschools.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:53:58","slug":"durban-high-school-are-the-champions-of-the-inaugural-tournament-at-kearsney-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29724","title":{"rendered":"Durban High School are the Champions of the inaugural tournament at Kearsney College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During the weekend, Kearsney College welcomed teams across the country to its inaugural Kearsney Soccer Tournament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The school hosted teams from afar as the Western Cape, Gauteng and Eastern Cape province. Some of the schools that featured in the tournament included power houses such as Paul Roos Gymnasium, TuksSport High School, Durban High School, Urban Academy and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The tournament featured boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 competition spanning across primary and high school levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A spectacular fashion with dramatic end, huge surprises and shocking defeats as the competition intensified over a period of three days, 14-16 July.<\/span><\/p>\n

Durban High School were crowned as the senior winners of the soccer tournament, defeating TuksSport High School on penalties.<\/span><\/p>\n

A dramatic end to a fantastic final, as Durban High School equalized in the last minute of the game after TuksSport High School held the 1-0 lead for a long duration of the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Huge blow to the TuksSport High School as they thought they had put the game to bed, but then went on to lose the final on the penalty shootout by 3-1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Edendale Technical High, one of the power houses in the sport of soccer in South Africa were also crowned as the champions of the girl\u2019s competition, joining Durban High School and the Hillcrest Primary who won the primary boy\u2019s competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All three finals were decided on the penalty shootout in what turned out to be a dramatic end to a fantastic competition that saw some of the very best schools in the country participating for the bragging rights and the honours of being crowned as the first champions of the Kearsney Soccer tournament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rankings from the Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boys Competition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Durban High School
\nTuksSport High School
\nUrban Academy
\nPaul Ross Gym
\nMaqhutshane
\nKearsney College
\nPort Shepstone
\nSiyajabula
\nLebone II
\nCurro Grantleigh
\nAshton Ballito<\/p>\n

Girls Competition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Girls High Schools
\nEdendale Technical High
\nSafa Thekwini
\nSt Anne\u2019s
\nDanville
\nLebone II
\nDurban Girls\u2019 High
\nSt Mary\u2019s
\nAshton Ballito
\nCurro Hillcrest<\/p>\n

Primary Schools:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hillcrest Primary
\nMerchiston
\nJohn Wesley
\nAshton Ballito
\nKloof Senior Primary
\nHighbury B
\nAthol Heights
\nHighbury A <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the weekend, Kearsney College welcomed teams across the country to its inaugural Kearsney Soccer Tournament.\u00a0 The school hosted teams from afar as the Western Cape, Gauteng and Eastern Cape province. Some of the schools that featured in the tournament included power houses such as Paul Roos Gymnasium, TuksSport High School, Durban High School, Urban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29724","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\/29724","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}