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Kearsney College<\/strong> showed they are going to be a team to be reckoned with heading into 2024 after winning the Northwood Stayers Water Polo Tournament<\/strong> on the weekend.<\/p>\n During 2023, they had proved themselves to be one of the leading teams in KZN and, indeed, in South Africa. Now, with only two players matriculating, their cupboard is well stocked for future success.<\/p>\n While the stayers’ teams of Hilton College<\/strong> and Michaelhouse<\/strong> did battle on Saturday in Balgowan, where Hilton claimed a 14-10 victory, Northwood<\/strong> hosted Kearsney<\/strong>, Clifton College<\/strong>, DHS<\/strong>, Glenwood<\/strong>, Maritzburg College<\/strong>, Westville Boys’ High<\/strong> and Reddam House Helderfontein<\/strong> in an event that exposed the talent that will battle for the 1st team honours over the course of the next year.<\/p>\n Clifton had recently confirmed their status as KZN’s number one in 2023 by winning the KZN Top 10 Water Polo Tournament the previous weekend.<\/p>\n They had also been the top performing KZN school in the Clifton and Hussar Grill SACS tournaments. In Cape Town, they handed the hosts, SACS, the champions of both, their only loss. However, following their KZN Top 10 title-winning exploits, they said goodbye to a fair number of very experienced performers.<\/p>\n Still, with coach Paul Martin<\/strong> at the helm, Clifton is always in the running. They showed they meant business on Friday by brushing aside Reddam House 19-0. On Saturday, though, Westville scored a narrow 6-5 win over Clifton. It became clear that the Griffins, Clifton and Kearsney were the teams to beat.<\/p>\n Kearsney recorded a 7-1 win over Reddam House, but that was after only one quarter as lightning caused the game to be called off. Then, they further demonstrated their potential with a comfortable 13-6 win over the hosts, Northwood, who emerged as the fourth best team of the event. There was a suggestion, too, that there is better to come from the Knights after they beat Westville 8-5 on Sunday.<\/p>\n In a key contest on the final day, Kearsney battled Clifton for a place in the final. It was a tremendous tussle, with fortunes swaying one way and then the other. Neither team would buckle. It ended 8-8, so the contest went to a penalty shootout. It went the way of Kearsney, and they were into the title game.<\/p>\n Westville Boys’ High pushed their neighbours all the way in the title-decider, but when the final whistle sounded the scoreboard read Kearsney 8-6 Westville.<\/p>\n It was the first time in their history that Kearsney they had won the tournament.<\/p>\n RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n Kearsney 19-3 Glenwood Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n Kearsney 7-1 Reddam Helderfontein Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n Glenwood 3-8 DHS Kearsney College showed they are going to be a team to be reckoned with heading into 2024 after winning the Northwood Stayers Water Polo Tournament on the weekend. During 2023, they had proved themselves to be one of the leading teams in KZN and, indeed, in South Africa. Now, with only two players matriculating, their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":29844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29922","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\/29922","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNorthwood 7-4 Maritzburg
\nWestville 14-8 DHS
\nClifton 19-0 Reddam Helderfontein
\nKearsney 16-1 Maritzburg
\nNorthwood 7-3 Glenwood<\/p>\n
\nDHS 8-12 Northwood
\nClifton 15-6 Maritzburg
\nWestville 15-2 Glenwood
\nClifton 5-6 Westville
\nDHS 14-6 Reddam Helderfontein
\nNorthwood 6-13 Kearsney
\nMaritzburg 12 (1)-(0) 12 Glenwood
\nClifton 13-6 DHS
\nWestville 11-2 Reddam Helderfontein<\/p>\n
\nReddam 7 (1)-(2) 7 Maritzburg
\nWestville 5-8 Northwood
\nKearsney 8 (1)-(0) 8 Clifton
\nDHS 10 (2)-(1) 10 Maritzburg
\nNorthwood 4-6 Clifton
\nWestville 6-8 Kearsney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"