{"id":38292,"date":"2024-03-18T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=38292"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:28:30","slug":"tries-aplenty-as-teams-build-early-foundations-for-a-long-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=38292","title":{"rendered":"Tries aplenty as teams build early foundations for a long season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DANIEL FELLINGHAM of St David’s Marist on the rampage against St John’s College. PHOTO: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The start of the rugby season was marked by a barrage of points in three early season fixtures featuring some of South Africa’s premier all-boys’ schools.<\/p>\n

St Stithians started off their season by making amends for last year’s two defeats to St Benedict’s by hammering the visitors by 59 points on Saturday.<\/p>\n

With 20 minutes remaining, the score read 22-3, and Bennies might have thought they were still in with a chance, if they could string a few good plays together.<\/p>\n

Saints, however, had other ideas, with side adding 40 points in a points-scoring frenzy, as the flood gates opened.<\/p>\n

Seven different players scored tries, with three of them dotting down twice, while flyhalf Chris Anderson<\/strong>, one of those two-try scorers, produced a brilliant individual performance, and added a conversion to his tally.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, St John’s College claimed a 29-21 win over St David’s Marist Inanda in a scrappy contest.<\/p>\n

Riley Elliot<\/strong>, Malan du Plessis<\/strong> and Jacob Smith<\/strong> crossed the whitewash for The Blues, before Kakuhle Tunguta<\/strong> made it four five-pointers for St John’s, right at the end.<\/p>\n

Bryson Walker<\/strong> showed off his kicking abilities by slotting three conversions and a penalty.<\/p>\n

St David’s would have felt they were within reach of a victory throughout. They ran in three tries of their own – by Theo Fonternel ,Kuzi Majuru and James Pearson – but some tight defence when it mattered kept them just out of reach of the St John’s total.<\/p>\n

In the final match of the day, St Alban’s dampened the Old Boys’ celebrations of Parktown Boys’ High School by beating the hosts 37-20.<\/p>\n

The Pretoria side scored seven tries through seven different players, but their goal kicking was not as impressive, with only one of the five-pointers being turned into a seven-point play.<\/p>\n

Lethoko Mallane<\/strong> ran in a double for the home team, but that was not enough to put Parktown in with an opportunity to overcome the large deficit created by a rampant St Alban’s.<\/p>\n

Scorers<\/strong><\/p>\n

St John’s College 29<\/strong> (19) – Tries: Riley Elliot, Malan du Plessis, Jacob Smith, Kakuhle Tunguta. Penalties: Bryson Walker,\u00a0Conversions: Bryson Walker (3).\u00a0St David’s Marist Inanda 21<\/strong> (14) – Tries: Theo Fonternel ,Kuzi Majuru, James Pearson.\u00a0Conversions: Diego Ferreira (3).<\/p>\n

St Stithians College 62<\/strong> (22) – Tries: Sicelo Sakawuli (2), Chris Anderson (2), Keabetswe Mapukana (2), Ross Turner, Josh Meyer, Hlelo Ngwenya, Nthabeleng Mafole. Conversions: Joshua Meyer (2), Chris Anderson. Penalties: Joshua Meyer (x2).<\/p>\n

St Benedicts College 3<\/strong> (3) – Penalty: Braeden le Roux.<\/p>\n

St Albans College 37<\/strong> (15) – Tries: Patrick Weir, Verster, Ward, JJ Steenkamp, Sema, Nelson, Gosling.\u00a0Conversions: Patrick Weir.\u00a0Parktown Boys’ High School 20<\/strong> (15) – Tries: Lethoko Mallane (2), Calestin Felkers, Mundilu Emmeraude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The start of the rugby season was marked by a barrage of points in three early season fixtures featuring some of South Africa’s premier all-boys’ schools. St Stithians started off their season by making amends for last year’s two defeats to St Benedict’s by hammering the visitors by 59 points on Saturday. With 20 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":38360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38292","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\/38292","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}