{"id":43888,"date":"2024-05-03T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43888"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:07:05","slug":"collegiate-stuns-eunice-on-opening-day-at-all-girls-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43888","title":{"rendered":"Collegiate stuns Eunice on opening day at All Girls Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43900\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43900\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hockey-collegiate-all-girls-030524-400x292.jpg\" alt=\"Collegiate Girls' High made a sparkling start to the All Girls Festival, upsetting Eunice in their opener.\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collegiate Girls&#8217; High made a sparkling start to the All Girls Festival, upsetting Eunice in their opener.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gqeberha&#8217;s <strong>Collegiate Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong> stunned St Mary&#8217;s Festival runners-up <strong>Eunice<\/strong> on Thursday at the All Girls Festival, being hosted by <strong>The High School for Girls, Potchefstroom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On a busy opening day for the 19 schools, Collegiate came away with a 100 percent record.<\/p>\n<p>Their win over Eunice, who have gone from strength to strength with a young team in 2024, was, undoubtedly, the biggest surprise of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiate scored before halftime and held Eunice at bay after the break to secure the win. They were also made to fight hard for a second 1-0 victory, this time over <strong>Pietermaritzburg Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the third outing, they brushed aside <strong>St Michael&#8217;s<\/strong>, cruising to a 4-0 win, before finishing up the day with a 3-0 defeat of the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>In a mouthwatering clash, <strong>Rhenish<\/strong> and <strong>HMS Bloemhof<\/strong> shared a 1-1 draw. Predictably, the Stellenbosch rivals went at it hammer and tongs, as rivals do.<\/p>\n<p>The opening day also saw some high scores being run up. Rhenish was clinical in a 13-0 dismantling of <strong>Jeppe High School for Girls<\/strong>, while Eunice made light work of HSG Potchefstroom, racing to a 9-0 victory. <strong>Oranje<\/strong> outplayed <strong>Pretoria High School for Girls<\/strong> 7-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Durban Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong> also enjoyed a big win, netting five times against the hapless Jeppe, who went winless.\u00a0They were also beaten 5-0 by Bloemhof and 4-0 by <strong>Danville Park<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of schools will be seeking big improvements on Friday, including Pool D&#8217;s <strong>Clarendon<\/strong>, who beat <strong>Parktown High School for Girls<\/strong> 3-0, but that was their only win on the opening day. Parktown is yet to open its account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rustenburg Girls&#8217; High 3-0 Pretoria HSG<br \/>\nOranje 6-0 La Rochelle<br \/>\nOranje 2-0 Affies<br \/>\nLa Rochelle 0-2 Rustenburg Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nPretoria HSG 0-0 La Rochelle<br \/>\nAffies 1-0 Rustenburg Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nRustenburg Girls&#8217; High 0-0 Oranje<br \/>\nPretoria HSG 0-2 Affies<br \/>\nAffies 2-0 La Rochelle<br \/>\nOranje 7-0 Pretoria HSG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Danville Park 1-1 Durban Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nRhenish 13-0 Jeppe HSG<br \/>\nRhenish 1-1 Bloemhof<br \/>\nJeppe HSG 0-4 Danville Park<br \/>\nBloemhof 1-1 Danville Park<br \/>\nJeppe HSG 0-5 Durban Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nDanville Park 0-2 Rhenish<br \/>\nDurban Girls&#8217; High 0-2 Bloemhof<br \/>\nBloemhof 5-0 Jeppe HSG<br \/>\nRhenish 1-0 Durban Girls&#8217; High<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pietermaritzburg GHS 2-0 St Michael&#8217;s<br \/>\nEunice 9-0 HSG Potchefstroom<br \/>\nEunice 0-1 Collegiate<br \/>\nHSG Potchefstroom 0 &#8211; 2 Pietermaritzburg GHS<br \/>\nCollegiate 1-0 Pietermaritzburg GHS<br \/>\nPietermaritzburg GHS 0-1 Eunice<br \/>\nSt Michael&#8217;s 0-4 Collegiate<br \/>\nCollegiate 3-0 HSG Potchefstroom<br \/>\nEunice 2-0\u00a0St\u00a0Michael&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wynberg Girls&#8217; High 0-0 Clarendon HSG<br \/>\nParktown HSG 0-3 Paarl Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nPaarl Girls&#8217; High 0-0 Wynberg Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nParktown HSG 0-3 Clarendon HSG<br \/>\nWynberg 2-0 Parktown HSG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gqeberha&#8217;s Collegiate Girls&#8217; High School stunned St Mary&#8217;s Festival runners-up Eunice on Thursday at the All Girls Festival, being hosted by The High School for Girls, Potchefstroom. On a busy opening day for the 19 schools, Collegiate came away with a 100 percent record. Their win over Eunice, who have gone from strength to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":43900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43888","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\/43888","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=43888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}