{"id":35780,"date":"2024-02-25T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T06:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35780"},"modified":"2024-02-25T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T06:59:20","slug":"paul-roos-batsmen-run-the-show-in-stellenbosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35780","title":{"rendered":"Paul Roos batsmen run the show in Stellenbosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35225\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35225\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Paul-Roos-2024-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Roos 1st XI (Photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium\u00a0<\/strong>picked up their second big win of the weekend on Saturday when they thumped <strong>Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong> by 267 runs in Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the game again on <strong>SuperSport Schools &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\">Register now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luca Plekker<\/strong> opened proceedings with a stellar innings of 107 runs and was well supported by <strong>Matthew Seymore<\/strong> (75). The duo controlled the pace of the game in the middle, sharing a stand of 159 runs, before <strong>Liam Burger<\/strong> finally made the breakthrough to dismiss Seymore.<\/p>\n<p>Plekker soldiered on to his century, smashing 16 boundaries along the way, before <strong>Charles King<\/strong> palmed a catch off a delivery by <strong>Willem Matthee <\/strong>to end Plakker&#8217;s stay.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors&#8217; happiness was short-lived, though, as <strong>Beor van Reenen<\/strong> stepped to the crease and further compounded the team from Paarl&#8217;s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>After earning his 50th cap the previous day in Paul Roos&#8217;s victory over <strong>Grey College<\/strong>, Van Reenen unleashed on the Paarl Gim bowlers, sending five deliveries flying for massive sixes, as he powered his way to 83 runs from a mere 28 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Van Reenen&#8217;s onslaught was finally brought to an end by <strong>Adriaan Louw<\/strong>&#8216;s safe hands but, by that point, the hosts were in the driver&#8217;s seat on 327\/6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roux Joubert<\/strong> added a brisk 23, which included two more sixes, and <strong>Keanu Williams<\/strong> rounded their innings off with an unbeaten 10 runs, which left Paarl Gim, chasing 366, with a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n<p>The Stellenbosch outfit&#8217;s dual SA Schools&#8217; star, <strong>Riley Norton<\/strong>, continued his scintillating run of form, by destroying the visitors&#8217; top order, while <strong>Niel Barnard<\/strong> and <strong>Dian Winkel<\/strong> each took two wickets to curtail the challenger&#8217;s fight and restrict them to double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Norton also starred in their match against Grey, missing out on a century by only three runs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Callum Appollis<\/strong> secured a massive win for Paul Roos with the first delivery of the 32nd over, picking up a second wicket, as Paul Roos continued to show its class as the season begins to draw to a close.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium 366\/9\u00a0<\/strong>(Luca Plekker 107, Beor van Reenen 83, Matthew Seymore 75, Riley Norton 26, Roux Joubert 23; Koch van Eyssen 3\/52, Liam Burger 2\/42, Willem Matthee 2\/54);\u00a0<strong>Paarl Gimnasium 99\u00a0<\/strong>(Charles King 24; Riley Norton 3\/23, Niel Barnard 2\/2, Dian Winkel 2\/29).\u00a0<strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium won by 267 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Roos Gimnasium\u00a0picked up their second big win of the weekend on Saturday when they thumped Paarl Gimnasium by 267 runs in Stellenbosch. Watch the game again on SuperSport Schools &#8211; Register now Luca Plekker opened proceedings with a stellar innings of 107 runs and was well supported by Matthew Seymore (75). The duo controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35780","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\/35780","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}