{"id":43986,"date":"2024-05-03T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43986"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:08:17","slug":"affies-to-battle-rhenish-for-the-2024-all-girls-festival-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43986","title":{"rendered":"Affies to battle Rhenish for the 2024 All Girls Festival title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43991\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43991\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hockey-affies-girls-030524-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Affies had good reason to smile after a nail-biting penalty shootout win over Collegiate in the quarterfinals of the All Girls Festival.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Affies had good reason to smile after a nail-biting penalty shootout win over Collegiate in the quarterfinals of the All Girls Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, Pretoria<\/strong>, and <strong>Rhenish<\/strong> <strong>Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong> will meet in the final of the <strong>All Girls Festival<\/strong>, on Saturday morning, in Potchefstroom.\u00a0Both teams were on form on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Red-hot Rhenish hit the field and breezed past <strong>Wynberg <\/strong>in the last eight, rolling to a 5-0 win. Then, they slipped past <strong>Oranje <\/strong>in the semi-finals, winning 3-1 in a penalty shootout, after the teams had finished regulation time tied at 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>Rhenish built up momentum from Thursday, which included a massive 13-0 opening victory over <strong>Jeppe High School for Girls<\/strong>, followed by a 1-1 draw with their Stellenbosch rivals, <strong>HMS Bloemhof<\/strong>. They added two more wins, without conceding a goal, defeating <strong>Danville Park Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong> 2-0 and <strong>Durban Girls&#8217; High<\/strong> 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>With three wins and a draw, and with 11 points in the bag, they topped Pool B.<\/p>\n<p>Affies, meanwhile, fought tooth and nail to overcome Gqeberha&#8217;s <strong>Collegiate Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong> 2-0 from the penalty spot, after a goalless draw, and then held off <strong>Paarl Girls&#8217; High<\/strong>, securing a hard-fought 1-0 victory to book their place in the tournament decider.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 finalist, <strong>Eunice<\/strong>, will face HMS Bloemhof for fifth place on Saturday. This comes after a they scored a 1-0 win over Wynberg on Friday, before going down 0-2 to their Bloemfontein rivals, Oranje.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bump in the road on day two, the soon-to-be former champions enjoyed a fair run on the opening day, when they won three matches, which included a big 9-0 win over the hosts, <strong>The High School for Girls, Potchefstroom<\/strong>, a tight 1-0 victory over <strong>Pietermaritzburg Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong>, and a 2-0 win over <strong>St Michael&#8217;s<\/strong>, also of Bloemfontein. They were, however, beaten 1-0 by Collegiate.<\/p>\n<p>The losing semi-finalists, Paarl Girls&#8217; High and Oranje will face off for third place on Saturday at 09:20 on the <strong>NWU Astro A<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oranje <strong>2-0<\/strong> Eunice<br \/>\nRhenish <strong>(3) 0-0 (1)<\/strong> Oranje<br \/>\nCollegiate <strong>(1) 0-0 (2)<\/strong> Affies<br \/>\nPaarl <strong>0-1<\/strong> Affies<br \/>\nRustenburg Girls\u2019 <strong>3-0<\/strong> St Michael\u2019s<br \/>\nDanville <strong>(2) 0-0 (0)<\/strong> Rustenburg<br \/>\nHigh School for Girls, Potchefstroom <strong>0-2<\/strong> Pretoria Girls<br \/>\nJeppe HSG <strong>0-1 <\/strong>High School for Girls, Potchefstroom<br \/>\nPretoria Girls <strong>3-0<\/strong> Jeppe HSG<br \/>\nClarendon <strong>(2) 0-0 (0)<\/strong> La Rochelle<br \/>\nDurban Girls&#8217; High <strong>1-2<\/strong> Clarendon<br \/>\nDurban Girls&#8217; High <strong>1-0<\/strong> Pietermaritzburg GHS<br \/>\nLa Rochelle<strong> (2) 0-0 (1) <\/strong>Pietermaritzburg GHS<br \/>\nPietermaritzburg GHS <strong>(0) 0-0 (1)<\/strong> St Michael\u2019s<br \/>\nRhenish <strong>5-0<\/strong> Wynberg<br \/>\nHMS Bloemhof <strong>0 -2<\/strong> Paarl Girls&#8217; High<br \/>\nWynberg <strong>0-1<\/strong> Eunice<br \/>\nHMS Bloemhof <strong>2-0<\/strong> Collegiate<br \/>\nParktown <strong>0-1<\/strong> Danville<br \/>\nParktown <strong>(3) 0-0 (2)<\/strong> Michael&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY FIXTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Collegiate GHS vs Wynberg Girls&#8217; High; <strong>08:00 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Clarendon vs Danville Park<strong>;\u00a0 08:40 &#8211; <\/strong>HMS Bloemhof vs Eunice; <strong>08:40 &#8211; <\/strong>Durban Girls&#8217; High v Parktown HSG; <strong>08:40 &#8211;<\/strong> Paarl Girl&#8217; High v Oranje; <strong>09:20 &#8211; <\/strong>La Rochelle vs Rustenburg; <strong>10:00 &#8211; <\/strong>Affies vs Rhenish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, Pretoria, and Rhenish Girls&#8217; High School will meet in the final of the All Girls Festival, on Saturday morning, in Potchefstroom.\u00a0Both teams were on form on Friday. Red-hot Rhenish hit the field and breezed past Wynberg in the last eight, rolling to a 5-0 win. Then, they slipped past Oranje in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":43991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43986","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\/43986","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=43986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}