{"id":39092,"date":"2024-03-24T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39092"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:03:34","slug":"dhs-grabs-the-coastal-cup-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39092","title":{"rendered":"DHS grabs the Coastal Cup spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hockey-dhs-240324-2-400x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"232\" \/>The three-day Coastal Cup tournament wrapped up in style on Sunday afternoon with the <strong>Durban High School (DHS)<\/strong> 1st XI continuing its impressive form to finish the event with a perfect record of four wins from four matches.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day, DHS cruised past <strong>St Alban&#8217;s<\/strong> 5-1 but were pushed hard by <strong>Garsfontein<\/strong>, before claiming a narrow 1-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the <b>Horseflies <\/b>produced a tighter than expected 2-1 win over Menlopark, but they were in fine form on Sunday, securing their unbeaten record with a big 5-0 victory over <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> suffered their first loss of the festival on the final day, going down 1-3 to Garsfontein.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the first goals the Griffin had given up in the event.\u00a0Previously, they beat, in succession, <strong>Pearson<\/strong> 1-0, Paarl 2-0, and <strong>Waterkloof<\/strong> 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>The young <strong>Glenwood High School<\/strong> 1st team pulled off a first victory in their last outing, finishing the festival on an optimistic note after outplaying Waterkloof 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Goals had been hard to come by for Glenwood in their previous matches, but their sights were in on Sunday. On Friday, they went down 0-4 to Pretoria&#8217;s <strong>Menlopark<\/strong> and 0-2 to St Alban&#8217;s. On Saturday, Garsfontein ran out 3-0 winners.<\/p>\n<p>Menlopark, along with Waterkloof, one of the festival&#8217;s newcomers, picked up a second victory, defeating <strong>Clifton College<\/strong> 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the u16s, Paarl held DHS to a 2-2 draw to dash their winning ways, while Westville lost 0-1 to Garsfontein. Waterkloof enjoyed a paper-thin 3-2 triumph over Glenwood.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Westville closed the tournament on a high note in the u14 competition, cruising to a 6-0 victory over <strong>Garsfontein<\/strong>, while St Alban&#8217;s saw off Pearson 4-1, and Waterkloof matched that scoreline in a victory over Glenwood.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 24 March<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st XI\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clifton 0-2 Menlopark; Waterkloof 1-3 Glenwood; Westville 1-3 Garsfontein; St Alban&#8217;s 1-0 Pearson; DHS 5-0 Paarl<\/p>\n<p><strong>u16A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clifton 0-2 Menlopark; Westville 0-1 Garsfontein; Waterkloof 3-2 Glenwood; DHS 2-2 Paarl; St Alban&#8217;s 0-1 Pearson<\/p>\n<p><strong>u14A\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clifton 2-1 Menlopark; Westville 6-0 Garsfontein; St Alban&#8217;s 4-1 Pearson; Waterkloof 4-1 Glenwood; DHS 1-2 Paarl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-day Coastal Cup tournament wrapped up in style on Sunday afternoon with the Durban High School (DHS) 1st XI continuing its impressive form to finish the event with a perfect record of four wins from four matches. On the first day, DHS cruised past St Alban&#8217;s 5-1 but were pushed hard by Garsfontein, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39092","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\/39092","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}