{"id":43828,"date":"2024-05-02T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43828"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:11:19","slug":"jade-brigade-shock-garsies-at-the-absa-wildeklawer-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43828","title":{"rendered":"Jade Brigade shock Garsies at the Absa Wildeklawer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOTO: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stellenberg produced the first major upset of the annual Absa Wildeklawer Festival<\/strong> when they defeated Garsfontein by 26-22 in the main curtain raiser on the second day in Kimberley.<\/p>\n

It was the Jade Brigade’s first victory over Garsies in their history and it took a former Garsie Estian Steyn<\/strong> to star in this historic victory. Steyn attended Garsfontein’s u16-side back in 2022 before moving to the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

Steyn was named Man of the Match for his performance as the Jade Brigade<\/strong> secured a victory that could turn their season around. This was only Stellenberg’s second victory of the season in eight outings.<\/p>\n

Garsfontein will feel hard done by as a couple of vital decisions went against them during the clash. The one that would’ve hit the hardest was the call by referee, Christo Erasmus, that a pass within the final movement went forward.<\/p>\n

Garsies’ captain and flanker, Luann Olivier<\/strong>, would’ve scored the match-winning try if the pass was not called forward. Olivier led his side from the front throughout and as usual, was more than a handful when he received the ball in space.<\/p>\n

It was Garsfontein’s first outing in almost a month. The team was probably also a bit undercooked going into the tournament. Their star scrumhalf, Brooklyn Newman<\/strong>, also got injured during the match which will be a huge blow for the side from Pretoria.<\/p>\n

Garsfontein faces Grey College in the main match of the festival on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The ease with which Durban High School<\/strong> managed to defeat Oakdale Landbou<\/strong> would’ve also surprised a couple of schoolboy rugby supporters. DHS came out on top by 33-14.<\/p>\n

Their winger Adriano Jackson<\/strong> scored a brace as the side from Durban produced some exciting rugby throughout. Durban High School’s second match is against Paarl Boys’ High. Their head coach, Peter Engledow<\/strong>, will face his former school for the first time since moving to the east coast.<\/p>\n

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

Stellenberg 26 (12) –<\/strong> Tries: Estian Steyn, Ryk Groenewald, Almero Kaizer, Dean Janse van Rensburg. Conversion: Dian Neethling (3). Garsfontein 22 (10) –<\/strong> Tries: Brooklyn Newman, Luann Olivier, Ruan Enslin. Conversions: Handre Maree (2). Penalty: Maree.<\/p>\n

Durban High School 33 (7) –<\/strong> Tries: Adriano Jackson (2), Sibusiso Mahlangu, Mahle Sithole. Conversions: Aka Boqwana (2). Penalties: Allston Cedras (2). Oakdale Landbou 14 (14) –<\/strong> Tries: Gustav van der Merwe, Kurt Coetzee. Conversions: Coetzee (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stellenberg produced the first major upset of the annual Absa Wildeklawer Festival when they defeated Garsfontein by 26-22 in the main curtain raiser on the second day in Kimberley. It was the Jade Brigade’s first victory over Garsies in their history and it took a former Garsie Estian Steyn to star in this historic victory. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43828","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\/43828","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=43828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}