{"id":29931,"date":"2023-11-09T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watersports.supersportschools.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:24:06","slug":"michaelhouse-welcomes-confident-hilton-side-to-the-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29931","title":{"rendered":"Michaelhouse welcomes confident Hilton side to the Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KwaZulu-Natal powerhouses, Michaelhouse<\/strong> and Hilton College<\/strong>, lock horns in a full water polo derby in the Midlands this weekend.<\/p>\n

The fixture will also see the boys play for a much greater cause, as it forms part of the annual PinkDrive<\/strong> campaign that the two rivals share, which seeks to shine a light and raise awareness about cancer-related issues.<\/p>\n

The day will be saturated with action across the school\u2019s three pools, with the junior sides set to kick off proceedings early in the Old Boys’ Pool, before the third, and fourth teams battle it out in the Railway Pool.<\/p>\n

The A teams and the first and second teams will play at the Full Pool, with the final match scheduled for 12:15.<\/p>\n

Looking back on their season, the hosts have had a rather challenging period in the water, coming short several times despite showing clear signs of improvement in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

In the KZN Top 10 Tournament<\/strong>, the boys from Balgowan finished in seventh spot, defeating Maritzburg College<\/strong> (7-6) on the last day.<\/p>\n

During the earlier Clifton Water Polo Tournament<\/strong>, they were underdone in their preparations, and, thus, struggled against quality opposition. They finished third in their group and missed out on a quarterfinal spot.<\/p>\n

Hilton will go into the match high in confidence after putting together a series of impressive performances this season.<\/p>\n

They finished fourth in both the SACS<\/strong> and Clifton Water Polo tournaments, and they also came close to clinching the silverware at the KZN Top 10 Tournament, losing the final 5-8 to Clifton College<\/strong>, the same team that had beaten them in the playoffs for third in the two aforementioned tournaments.<\/p>\n

Hilton heads into the match having two recent wins over Michaelhouse to their credit, including a 9-6 victory over their great rivals in the 9th place playoff at the St Stithians Water Polo Invitational<\/strong> at the end of October.<\/p>\n

The Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hilton College<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trent Chubb, Hanu Pieterse, Matthew Thomas, Thomas Taylor, Tristan Uys, Retief Malherbe, Oliver Mattison, Meyer Malherbe, Mitchel Garreau, Nic Bregman-Frangos<\/p>\n

Michaelhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elliott\u00a0Springate, Bryn Retzlaff, Reilly Elliott, Oliver Guy, Keegan Elliot, Alex Jankowitz, Luke Davidson, Reece Rezac, Nicholas\u00a0Smithers<\/p>\n

Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Old Boys Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

08:00 – Michaelhouse u14B vs Hilton College u14B
\n08:45 – Michaelhouse u15B vs Hilton College u15B<\/p>\n

Railway Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

08:00 – Michaelhouse 3rd<\/sup> vs Hilton College 3rd
\n<\/sup>08:45- Michaelhouse 4th<\/sup> vs Hilton College 4th<\/sup><\/p>\n

Full Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

09:45 – Michaelhouse u14A vs Hilton College u14A
\n10:30 – Michaelhouse u15A vs Hilton College u15A
\n11:15 – Michaelhouse 2nd<\/sup> vs Hilton College 2nd
\n<\/sup>12:15 – Michaelhouse 1st<\/sup> vs Hilton College 1st<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KwaZulu-Natal powerhouses, Michaelhouse and Hilton College, lock horns in a full water polo derby in the Midlands this weekend. The fixture will also see the boys play for a much greater cause, as it forms part of the annual PinkDrive campaign that the two rivals share, which seeks to shine a light and raise awareness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29931","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\/29931","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}