{"id":39976,"date":"2024-04-01T18:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39976"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:40:30","slug":"watson-hattrick-floors-high-flying-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=39976","title":{"rendered":"Watson hattrick floors high flying Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kyle Watson <\/strong>delivered one of the highlights of day three of the St John’s Easter Rugby Festival <\/strong>when he went over for a hattrick of tries.<\/p>\n

Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools. Link to the games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The St John’s 8th-man and captain, who played hooker in his side’s 13-38 loss to Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit<\/strong> on day two, broke through the Falcon College<\/strong> defences three times to contribute 15 points to the hosts’ 38-21 victory over the team from Esigodini, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

It was clear from the get-go that St John’s were intent on securing their first victory of the festival. They had come close in their opener, playing to a 17-17 draw with Kingswood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

St John’s dominated the set pieces and made good use of the scrums and lineouts to set up a solid platform from which their dangerous backline could attack.<\/p>\n

Flyhalf Joe MacRobert<\/strong> played the role of general exceptionally well, dictating play in a cool and calm manner. This allowed Watson to run freely among the backs and create mismatches.<\/p>\n

Loosehead prop Joshua Shannon<\/strong> produced a third consecutive impressive display, hammering Falcon with his robust runs. His high work rate was also rewarded with a try.<\/p>\n

Falcon’s fullback, Tafadzwa Tigere<\/strong>, had his kicking boots on, knocking over three penalties and slotting a conversion.<\/p>\n

Kingswood College’s<\/strong> lock, Josh Mackenzie<\/strong>, crossed the whitewash twice in his side’s 35-10 victory over St David’s Marist Inanda. His twin, James Mackenzie<\/strong>, converted the second of his brother’s tries and also added the extras to lock Sipho Nonyalela’s five-pointer.<\/p>\n

The Kingswood backline delivered a warning to their future opponents – don’t give them space to run, which inside the centre Munangi Kamwendo<\/strong> demonstrated by ripping through the St David’s midfield to run it in from his own 22-metre line, to open their scoring.<\/p>\n

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

St John’s College 38 (19)<\/strong> – Tries: Kyle Watson (3), Thomas Kruger, Joshua Shannon, Jacob Smith. Conversions: Bryson Walker (4). Falcon College 21 (13)<\/strong> – Tries: Tawanda Chisungo, Dominic McKenchie. Conversion: Tafadzwa Tigere. Penalties: Tigere (3).<\/p>\n

Kingswood College 35 (14)<\/strong> – Tries: Josh Mackenzie (2), Munangi Kamwendo, Vizi Labase, Sipho Nonyalela. Conversions: Jared Botha (3), James Mackenzie (2). St David’s Marist 10 (3)<\/strong> – Try: Jack Brady. Conversion: Luca Gabion. Penalty: Diego Ferreira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Watson delivered one of the highlights of day three of the St John’s Easter Rugby Festival when he went over for a hattrick of tries. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools. Link to the games. The St John’s 8th-man and captain, who played hooker in his side’s 13-38 loss to Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39976","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\/39976","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}