{"id":33190,"date":"2024-01-22T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33190"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:58:10","slug":"capes-best-to-contest-for-sacs-night-series-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33190","title":{"rendered":"Cape\u2019s best chase SACS Night Series glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33194\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/water-polo-sacs-prg-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/>The annual <strong>SACS Night Series<\/strong> makes its return this week when six of the best water polo-playing schools in the Cape lock horns at the <strong>SACS<\/strong> main pool on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The series, featuring the hosts, <strong>Paul Roos Gymnasium<\/strong>, <strong>Wynberg Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, <strong>Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, <strong>Reddam House Constantia<\/strong>, and <strong>Bishops Diocesan College<\/strong> will be played over six rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The group stages stretch to 23 February, with the semi-finals and finals following four days later on 27 February.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s evening&#8217;s action begins with the hosts taking on Bishops at 17:00, before Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High tackles Reddam. Wynberg close off day one&#8217;s proceedings against a dangerous Paul Roos side.<\/p>\n<p>The matches will also help SACS, Bishops, Rondebosch and Paul Roos prepare for the <strong>St Andrew&#8217;s College (SAC) Shield<\/strong>, which gets underway in Makhanda on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s night series was all about the home side as they bossed proceedings and recorded a 100 percent win rate in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Coach <strong>Devon Card<\/strong>&#8216;s team then breezed past Bishops, defeating them 14-6 in the semi-finals, before scrapping their way to an impressive 10-6 win against their old foes, Paul Roos, in the final.<\/p>\n<p>SACS will be aiming to continue in the same vein as last year&#8217;s team, which was ranked number one in South Africa. But the competition in the Cape, as always, will be stiff.<\/p>\n<p>Reddam House Constantia will be hurting after finishing last in 2023, while Wynberg, Rondebosch, and Bishops will be keen to take a step forward and challenge SACS and Paul Roos for top honours.<\/p>\n<p>With Reddam keen to make a splash, their first-round match against &#8216;Bosch will be one to watch as the Constantia school aims to upset the apple cart.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops will also be aiming to rattle the status quo when they tackle Paul Roos in round two. There&#8217;ll be an eagerly awaited showdown in round three, when SACS battle Paul Roos, while Bishops and Wynberg will go head-to-head in a southern suburbs&#8217; clash in the last round before the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>All the action will be live on <a href=\"https:\/\/live.supersportschools.com\/category\/606f65f91eea03755e56797c\/sub-category\/61f942ec9e93f25b0fd852f8\/\">SuperSport Schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>23 January<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- SACS vs Bishops<br \/>\n18:00- Rondebosch Boys vs Reddam House<br \/>\n19:00- Paul Roos vs Wynberg<\/p>\n<p><strong>31 January<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- Reddam House vs Wynberg<br \/>\n18:00- SACS vs Rondebosch Boys High<br \/>\n19:00- Paul Roos vs Bishops<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- Rondebosch Boys vs Wynberg<br \/>\n18:00- Bishops vs Reddam House<br \/>\n19:00- Paul Roos vs SACS<\/p>\n<p><strong>14 February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- SACS vs Wynberg<br \/>\n18:00- Rondebosch vs Bishops<br \/>\n19:00- Reddam House vs Paul Roos<\/p>\n<p><strong>21 February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- Bishops vs Wynberg<br \/>\n18:00- SACS vs Reddam House<br \/>\n19:00- Rondebosch vs Paul Roos<\/p>\n<p><strong>27 February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00- SF 1<br \/>\n18:00- SF 2<br \/>\n19:00- 5th\/6th playoff<br \/>\n20:00- Final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual SACS Night Series makes its return this week when six of the best water polo-playing schools in the Cape lock horns at the SACS main pool on Wednesday night. The series, featuring the hosts, Paul Roos Gymnasium, Wynberg Boys&#8217; High, Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High, Reddam House Constantia, and Bishops Diocesan College will be played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33190","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\/33190","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=33190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}