{"id":39232,"date":"2024-03-25T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39232"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:25:24","slug":"jeppe-bag-historic-victory-over-grey-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39232","title":{"rendered":"Jeppe bag historic victory over Grey College"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeppe Boys’ High School<\/strong> caused the upset of the annual NMI Toyota Noord\/Suid tournament when they defeated the mighty Grey College<\/strong> by 22-19 in their clash on the third day in Pretoria.<\/p>\n

It was a historic victory for the side from Johannesburg as it was their first win over Grey College. The two teams’ only other encounter back in 1987 was won by Grey (17-6).<\/p>\n

Watch the match again on SuperSport Schools (www.supersportschools.com)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PHOTO: Frans Lombard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeppe enjoyed a 16-14 lead at the break after an inspiring first half. Grey made some unnecessary errors during the match, but it should not take away from Jeppe’s victory.<\/p>\n

Jeppe’s effort on defence was something to behold. It would almost be a sin to exclude any of their players’ names from playing a vital role in the famous victory.<\/p>\n

Eighthman Risima Khosa<\/strong>, lock Luke Cannon<\/strong>, and loosehead prop Andr\u00e9 Poulton<\/strong>, were impressive. Khosa and Cannon led the defensive effort while Poulton was like a fourth loose forward contesting at the breakdowns.<\/p>\n

Flyhalf, Matthew Coetzee<\/strong>, kept the scoreboard ticking over by converting Khosa’s try, as well as slotting five penalties. Coetzee missed maybe his easiest attempt at goal with the score at 22-19 but, in the end, it didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

Fullback, Sanele Simelane<\/strong>, also deserves a mention for his superb performance. He is the younger brother of the Stormers’ Wandisile Simelane.<\/p>\n

Jeppe managed to keep Grey’s inside centre, Pieter van der Merwe<\/strong>, at bay. In the pack of forwards, Liam van Wyk<\/strong> (hooker) and AJ Meyer<\/strong> (lock) did more than what would’ve been expected of them.<\/p>\n

This was Grey College’s first-ever defeat at the Noord\/Suid tournament. What makes Jeppe’s victory even more extraordinary is the fact that they were outplayed by Paarl Boys’ High<\/strong> (19-45) on the opening day of the festival.<\/p>\n

EG Jansen<\/strong> is still unbeaten after securing a solid 44-15 victory over HTS Drostdy<\/strong> of Worcester. The team from Boksburg enjoyed a more than comfortable lead of 32-5 at the break.<\/p>\n

Their hooker, Danr\u00e9 Pike<\/strong>, as well as the lock Gerhard van Aswegen, scored a brace of tries. Both also produced outstanding performances. The Craven Week flanker Zaide-Leigh Rippenaar regularly got his side across the advantage line throughout the game.<\/p>\n

The fullback, R-Jay Petersen<\/strong>, also deserves a mention for his brilliant performance.<\/p>\n

Scorers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong> 22 (16) – Try: Risima Khosa. Conversion: Matthew Coetzee. Penalties: Coetzee (5). Grey College<\/strong> 19 (14) – Tries: Donelle Hendricks, Ruben Cilliers, Ethan Adams. Conversions: Alzeadon Felix (2).<\/p>\n

EG Jansen<\/strong> 44 (32) – Tries: Danr\u00e9 Pike (2), Gerhard van Aswegen (2), Riekus van der Merwe, Keanu van Loggerenberg, Zian Marais, Divan Francis. Conversions: Matt Bergman, Christopher Combrinck. HTS Drostdy<\/strong> 15 (5) – Tries: Marcus Lee, Hareld Mbuqa, Aljay Skippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeppe Boys’ High School caused the upset of the annual NMI Toyota Noord\/Suid tournament when they defeated the mighty Grey College by 22-19 in their clash on the third day in Pretoria. It was a historic victory for the side from Johannesburg as it was their first win over Grey College. The two teams’ only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39232","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\/39232","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}