{"id":33529,"date":"2024-01-26T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33529"},"modified":"2024-01-26T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:13:39","slug":"day-2-st-johnss-dominance-continues-in-makhanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33529","title":{"rendered":"DAY 2| St Johns’s dominance continues in Makhanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The second day of the annual SAC Shield,<\/strong> hosted by St Andrew’s College<\/strong> in Makhanda, produced more exhilarating action in the pool, along with championship-defining performances ahead of the looming quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

One of the in-form teams at the tournament, St John’s College,<\/strong> continued on their prolific run and, although tested, remained unbeaten on the day.<\/p>\n

The side from Johannesburg got one over last year’s champions, Paul Roos, <\/strong>beating them 10-8 early in the morning in a tightly contested affair. Soon after that, they repeated that scoreline against Michaelhouse<\/strong>, which took them to five wins in five games after victories against the hosts, Rondebosch Boys’ High, and Westville, which came only after a penalty shootout, on day one.<\/p>\n

As a result, St John’s finished atop Pool B and qualified for the quarterfinals alongside Rondebosch Boys’ High<\/strong>, Westville<\/strong>, and Paul Roos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

St Andrew’s and Michaelhouse will sit out this year’s title race.<\/p>\n

Final four spots in Pool A, which has one more team that Pool B, are still up for grabs, with three fixtures still to be played on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

As things stand, Bishops<\/strong> top the Pool A table with 10 points, with SACS<\/strong> trailing them by two.<\/p>\n

SACS bounced back nicely on day two, playing with flair to score a combined 30 goals in their two matches against a winless Grey High<\/strong> and St Stithians College<\/strong> respectively. They take on Clifton College<\/strong> at 07:00 on Saturday in their last Pool A game.<\/p>\n

Bishops will lock up first place if they defeat Grey High on day three.<\/p>\n

The knock-out stages will resume right after those last Pool A encounters when the seventh-place team from Pool A tackles the team that is sixth in Pool B.<\/p>\n

Results: Day Two<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

St Stithians<\/strong> 8-6 Hilton College
\n<\/strong>Selborne College<\/strong> 13-8 Clifton College
\nSACS <\/strong>17-7 Grey High
\nBishops <\/strong>9 (2)- 9(1) Selborne College
\nSt Stithians <\/strong>4-7 Clifton
\nSelborne <\/strong>8-11 Hilton
\nClifton <\/strong>5-7 Bishops
\n<\/strong>SACS <\/strong>13-9 St Stithians
\nBishops <\/strong>12-10 Hilton
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

St John’s<\/strong> 10-8 Paul Roos
\n<\/strong>Rondebosch Boys<\/strong> 8-4 St Andrews
\n<\/strong>Westville<\/strong> 8-4 Michaelhouse
\n<\/strong>Rondebosch<\/strong> 11-8 Paul Roos
\n<\/strong>Westville<\/strong> 8-5 St Andrews
\n<\/strong>St John\u2019s<\/strong> 10-8 Michaelhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Day 3 fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, 27 January, @ St Andrew\u2019s College<\/strong><\/p>\n

07:00<\/strong>– (34) Clifton vs SACS; 07:45<\/strong> – (35) Grey High vs Bishops; 08:30<\/strong> – (36) Selborne vs St Stithians; 09:15<\/strong> – (37) 7th Pool A vs 6th Pool B (qualifier); 10:00<\/strong> – (38) 1st Pool A vs 4th Pool B (quarterfinal 1); 10:50<\/strong> – (39) 2nd Pool A vs 3rd Pool B (2nd quarterfinal); 11:40<\/strong> – (40) 3rd Pool A vs 2nd Pool B (3rd quarterfinal); 12:30<\/strong> – (41) 4th Pool A vs 1st Pool B (quarterfinal 4); 13:20<\/strong> – (42) 5th Pool A vs Winner 37 (Plate semi-final); 14:10<\/strong> – (43) 6th Pool A vs 5th Pool B (Plate semi-final); 15:00<\/strong> – (44) Loser 38 vs Loser 40 (5th-8th); 15:50 <\/strong>– (45) Loser 30 vs Loser 41 (5th-8th); 16:40<\/strong> – (46) Winner 38 vs Winner 40 (Semi-final 1); 17:30<\/strong> – (47) Winner 39 vs Winner 41 (Semi-final 2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second day of the annual SAC Shield, hosted by St Andrew’s College in Makhanda, produced more exhilarating action in the pool, along with championship-defining performances ahead of the looming quarterfinals. One of the in-form teams at the tournament, St John’s College, continued on their prolific run and, although tested, remained unbeaten on the day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33529","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\/33529","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=33529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}