{"id":44875,"date":"2024-05-13T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44875"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:31:50","slug":"taits-hattrick-key-to-greys-triumph-over-queens-in-gqeberha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=44875","title":{"rendered":"Tait’s hattrick key to Grey’s triumph over Queen’s in Gqeberha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Grant Howard<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a jovial atmosphere, with a sea of blue and white, as Grey High School<\/strong> put up another impressive performance to thump Queen’s College<\/strong> 6-0 in Gqeberha on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The match, part of Grey’s reunion celebrations, was played at Grey’s sister school, Collegiate Girls’ High<\/strong>, in honour of Collegiate’s 150th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n

Entering the clash, the hosts were fresh off an impressive third place finish in the stacked Hibbert Shield<\/strong>, where they pushed SACS<\/strong> all the way in the semi-finals before going down 2-4 from the penalty spot.\u00a0They claimed bronze with a 4-1 win over Garsfontein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As for the side from Komani, their last outing before facing Grey was a clash with Dale College<\/strong> at their 166th<\/sup> reunion in April, and they went down 2-3 in that match.<\/p>\n

In Friday’s night’s showdown, Grey got off to a swift start, quickly controlling possession of the ball and opening the scoring with just two minutes played. Captain Kian Cambier<\/strong> set up Caleb Humphreys,<\/strong> on the far post, and he tapped in to give his side the lead.<\/p>\n

Queen’s, showing good composure, fought to gain a foothold in the match, and their defenders knuckled down to keep the hosts out, for a while…<\/p>\n

Grey made it 2-0 through a Xander Elkington<\/strong> drag flick from a penalty corner, but the visitors came close to pulling one back with 30 seconds to play in the opening chukka. However, Grey goalkeeper Kaino Broadhurst<\/strong> was able to clear the danger.<\/p>\n

The second chukka was goalless, but Andrew Beynon<\/strong>‘s charges, playing where Beynon enjoyed so much success with Collegiate, created plenty of opportunities to add to their score. However, Queen’s ‘keeper Rowan Miles<\/strong> wasn\u2019t having any of it, pulling off save after save, to keep the score at 2-0.<\/p>\n

In the third chukka, Grey tacked on another goal, with Tait striking from a superb reverse stick shot that found the right-hand corner.<\/p>\n

Grey made it an emphatic victory in the final quarter, with Tait completing his hattrick, before captain Cambier netted to put an exclamation mark on a 6-0 win.<\/p>\n

Next, Grey’s attention will shift to their local rivals, Pearson High<\/strong>, whom they meet on Friday.<\/p>\n

In other matches around the province, Graeme College<\/strong> edged Westering High<\/strong> 3-2.\u00a0Pearson<\/strong>, playing away from home, grabbed a 3-0 win against Kingswood College.<\/p>\n

Woodridge College<\/strong> was on the backfoot early on in their game versus York High. <\/strong>They threatened a comeback, but the team from George recorded a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n

St Andrew’s College<\/strong> went on a goal scoring spree, thumping Cambridge High<\/strong> 7-1 at the Webster Astroturf<\/strong> in Makhanda.<\/p>\n

Eastern Cape results<\/strong><\/p>\n

Westering 2-3 Graeme College
\nKingswood College 0-3 Pearson
\nStirling High 2-2 Merrifield College
\nWoodridge College 1-2 York High
\nSt Andrew’s College 7-1 Cambridge High
\nGrey High 6-0 Queen’s College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a jovial atmosphere, with a sea of blue and white, as Grey High School put up another impressive performance to thump Queen’s College 6-0 in Gqeberha on Friday night. The match, part of Grey’s reunion celebrations, was played at Grey’s sister school, Collegiate Girls’ High, in honour of Collegiate’s 150th anniversary. Entering the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44875","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\/44875","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=44875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}