{"id":44401,"date":"2024-05-08T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44401"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:36:37","slug":"action-galore-as-cape-sides-return-to-the-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44401","title":{"rendered":"Action galore as Cape sides return to the turf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Somerset College captain Julia Brown in action for her side during the Spar Hockey Challenge in Cape Town. Photo: Khulani Media<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the heavy workload of the All Girls Hockey festival<\/a><\/strong>, which was held in Potchefstroom last weekend, it will be business as usual for Western Cape sides when they return to the turf this weekend.<\/p>\n

Catch all the hockey action LIVE<\/strong> on SuperSport Schools<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The action commences on Friday night with a gripping encounter between two dangerous sides in Somerset West<\/strong>, where Somerset College<\/strong> hosts Paarl Girls’ High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the season, Somerset<\/strong> looked deadly in front of goal, and they made scoring look easy, opening their campaign with wins over Fairmont High<\/strong> (2-0), Herschel Girls School <\/strong>(1-0), St Cyprian’<\/strong>s (4-1), and DF Malan<\/strong> (2-0) at the Spar Hockey Challenge<\/a><\/strong> pre-season tournament.<\/p>\n

They carried that momentum into the Belgotex Sport Easter Hockey tournament<\/a><\/strong>, which they won, beating Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg<\/strong> 2-0 in the final.<\/p>\n

Then, at the St Mary’s Festival<\/strong>, in Johannesburg, against the highest quality field in the country, they lost their form a little and placed 23rd<\/sup> out of 32 teams.<\/p>\n

This coming Friday, they come up against a good Paarl Girls’ High<\/strong> side, which has made strides this season.<\/p>\n

Despite going down 0-1 against Oranje<\/strong>\u00a0and 1-3 against HMS Bloemhof<\/strong> last month, coach Anri Keevy’<\/strong>s side has shown signs of improvement. Playing an exciting brand of hockey, they finished fourth at the All Girls Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They will challenge Somerset, with players like Rouxn\u00e9 Pentz<\/strong>\u00a0and Nina Cilliers<\/strong> likely to lead their goal scoring efforts.<\/p>\n

Another clash to look forward to on Friday is the showdown between Springfield Convent School<\/strong> and HMS Bloemhof.\u00a0Bloemhof<\/strong> was also in Potchefstroom for the All Girls Festival and performed well to finish in an impressive fifth place. Also on Friday, Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong> will tackle St Cyprian’s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saturday promises to deliver some exciting action with Rhenish<\/strong>, Herschel<\/strong>, and Fairmont High<\/strong>, among the teams in action.<\/p>\n

Rhenish<\/strong> will aim to quickly get over the disappointment of a penalty shootout loss in the final of the All Girls Festival when they welcome La Rochelle <\/strong>to Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n

Stellenberg High plays Westerford, and Durbanville takes on HTS Drostdy in a highly anticipated derby clash.<\/p>\n

The action wraps up with Herschel Girls School<\/strong> facing Reddam Constantia<\/strong>\u00a0and Fairmont<\/strong> hosting Wynberg Girls’ High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, 10 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

18:30 – Somerset College vs Paarl Girls’ High
\n19:00 – Curro Durbanville vs Milnerton
\n19:15 – St Cyprian’s vs Paarl Gimnasium
\n19:25 – Springfield vs HMS Bloemhof<\/p>\n

Saturday, 11 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

09:00 – Stellenberg vs Westerford
\n10:00 – Durbanville vs HTS Drostdy
\n11:00 – Rhenish vs La Rochelle
\n11:00 – Herschel vs Reddam Constantia
\n10:00 – Fairmont vs Wynberg Girls’ High<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the heavy workload of the All Girls Hockey festival, which was held in Potchefstroom last weekend, it will be business as usual for Western Cape sides when they return to the turf this weekend. Catch all the hockey action LIVE on SuperSport Schools. The action commences on Friday night with a gripping encounter between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44401","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\/44401","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}