{"id":44214,"date":"2024-05-06T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44214"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:15:14","slug":"brakkies-beat-bulldogs-montagu-and-punt-produce-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44214","title":{"rendered":"Brakkies beat Bulldogs, Montagu and Punt produce fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44252\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44252\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Brackenfell-vs-Parel-Vallei-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Olga Tosi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell<\/strong> played their hearts out in Somerset West to beat <strong>Parel Vallei<\/strong> in their own backyard on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first 35 minutes saw both teams put up a great fight. The visitors scored first to take the lead, but for the rest of the half, the PV boys kept piling on the pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Renato Tosi<\/strong>, the home team&#8217;s no. 8 carried the ball well and got his team into good positions on the field, but the Brakkies&#8217; defence stood firm and forced the hosts to take the points on offer, with two penalty conversions by <strong>Shudley Rhoda<\/strong> and <strong>Luchen Meyer <\/strong>respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf <strong>Junior Louw<\/strong> impressed for Brackenfell again, and his replacement, <strong>Alldrick Johnson<\/strong>, didn&#8217;t take his foot off the gas for a moment when he came on.<\/p>\n<p>Tries by <strong>Dawson Lombard<\/strong>, <strong>Cwenga Ntsapho<\/strong>, <strong>Siraaj Cook<\/strong> and Johnson enabled the Brakkies to outscore the Bulldogs 29-16, but the home crowd was entertained to the very end, with Paarl Vallei&#8217;s athletic winger <strong>Iviwe Majingo<\/strong> scoring a stunning try to get them to within two scores.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Brackenfell hosts <strong>Strand<\/strong> while the Parel Vallei boys gear up for an imposing challenge away at the marauding <strong>Milnerton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Tygerberg<\/strong> Tigers had their claws removed this weekend when they visited the Millies, going down by a whopping 14-82.<\/p>\n<p>Milnerton&#8217;s speedster on the wing, <strong>Keagan Wood<\/strong>, ran in four tries, while captain <strong>Frank Hitimana<\/strong> veteran scrumhalf, <strong>Devon Damons<\/strong>, grabbed a hattrick each.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Hugenote<\/strong> continued their impressive run of form, scoring 48 unanswered points against <strong>Hermanus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keenen Johnson<\/strong> (winger) and <strong>Xavier Fredericks<\/strong> (outside centre) each dotted down twice as Hugenote ran in eight tries without conceding any points.<\/p>\n<p>In Oudtshoorn, <strong>Luan Giliomee<\/strong> scored 21 points for <strong>Charlie Hofmeyr<\/strong> as they kept their perfect record alive, beating <strong>Langenhoven Gimnasium<\/strong> 46-31<\/p>\n<p>With a squad full of dangermen, who seem to find their way onto the scoresheet every weekend, Charlies appear well set to continue their winning run throughout the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The clash between <strong>Montagu<\/strong> and <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Punt<\/strong> from Mossel Bay produced one of the highlights of the weekend, climaxing with a last-minute try, which levelled the scores at 29-29. The match was poised on a knife&#8217;s edge throughout.<\/p>\n<p>With only 15 minutes left in the game, the visitors from the Garden Route pulled away, scoring two quickfire tries to gain a 29-17 advantage. The home team&#8217;s playmaker, <strong>Ronaldo Koker<\/strong>, however, pulled off an incredible solo effort in the final moments to score his second try of the day from the halfway line. But, with the conversion going wide, they had to settle for a draw.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors&#8217; fullback <strong>Gabriel Hinkman<\/strong> stood out as the last bastion of defence, and for driving the attack forward with his educated boot, while scrummy <strong>Udo Windvogel<\/strong> impressed for Montagu, keeping up the tempo with his work rate at the breakdown points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell 29 (7) &#8211; <\/strong>Tries: Dawson Lombard, Cwenga Ntsapho, Alldrick Johnson, Siraaj Cook. Conversions: Johnson (2), Junior Louw. Penalty: Louw.\u00a0<strong>Parel Vallei 16 (6) &#8211; <\/strong>Tries: Iviwe Majingo, Luchen Meyer. Penalties: Shudley Rhoda, Meyer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milnerton 82 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Tries: Keagan Wood (4), Frank Hitimana (3), Devon Damons (3), Chadlin Sellidon, Morgan Lodewyk. Conversions: Chadwin Sellidon (7), Damons. Penalties: Chadwin Sellidon (2).\u00a0<strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Tygerberg 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hugenote 48 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Tries: Keenen Johnson (2), Xavier Fredericks (2), Cullen Ruiters, Xavier Oktober, Kieran Smith, Xavier Gertse. Conversions: Luke Daniels (4).\u00a0<strong>Hermanus 0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlie Hofmeyr 46 &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Philip du Plessis, Luan Giliomee, Le Roux Groenewald, Izha-Vin van Wyk, Glennwill Tromp, Duran Shiba. Conversions: Giliomee (5). Penalties: Giliomee (2).<strong>\u00a0Langenhoven Gimnasium 31.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Montagu 29 (7) &#8211; <\/strong>Tries: Ronaldo Koker (2), Xolani Yanta, Peter-Wayne Soldaat. Conversions: Koker (3). Penalty: Koker.\u00a0<strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Punt 29 (8) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Tries: Caleb Meyer, Deacon Cooper, Henro Kuhn, Ruan van Zyl. Conversions: Gabriel Hinkman (3), Penalty: Hinkman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>u19 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Parel Vallei II 8, Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell II 5; Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell III 24, Parel Vallei III 0; Ho\u00ebrskool Punt II 26, Montagu II 5; Ho\u00ebrskool Punt III 45, Montagu III 0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>u16 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Parel Vallei A 31, Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell A 0; Montagu A 38, Ho\u00ebrskool Punt A 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>u15 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Parel Vallei A 12, Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell A 12; Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell B 14, Parel Vallei B 10; Ho\u00ebrskool Punt A 14, Montagu A 10; Montagu B 7, Ho\u00ebrskool Punt B 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>u14 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell A 17, Parel Vallei A 6; Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell B 26, Parel Vallei B 10; Montagu A 10, Ho\u00ebrskool Punt A 10; Ho\u00ebrskool Punt B 17, Montagu B 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell played their hearts out in Somerset West to beat Parel Vallei in their own backyard on Saturday. The first 35 minutes saw both teams put up a great fight. The visitors scored first to take the lead, but for the rest of the half, the PV boys kept piling on the pressure. Renato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44214","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\/44214","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}