{"id":47188,"date":"2024-05-30T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=47188"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:43:26","slug":"st-andrews-hunts-a-rare-win-at-selborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=47188","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew’s hunts a rare win at Selborne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The St Andrews team during the Bishops 175 Hockey Festival in Cape Town this year. Photo credits: Bishops 175<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St Andrew’s College<\/strong>, after going down 1-2 to Grey High School<\/strong> last weekend, faces a stiff challenge in its quest to return to winning ways, with a Friday night showdown against highly motivated Selborne College<\/strong> in East London.<\/p>\n

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

Push-back for the big clash is set for 18:45 on Selborne’s main AstroTurf, and a sea of black and white will fill up the stands.<\/p>\n

St Andrew’s will enter the match as the underdogs, considering the excellent season Selborne has put together. But the boys from Makhanda have proven themselves to be a tough outfit, too.<\/p>\n

At home, Selborne has only lost once in 2024, and that 2-5 defeat came against the dangerous Grey College<\/strong> last month. Apart from that loss, they drew 1-1 with Queen’s College<\/strong> and swept their opponents at both the Tony Godding Festival <\/strong>and the Nomads Festival<\/strong> in March.<\/p>\n

In the past two weeks, despite playing away from home, coach KJ Friend<\/strong>\u2019s side has scored a whopping 16 goals\u00a0while only conceding one.<\/p>\n

They thumped Dale College <\/strong>10-1 at the Qonce school’s reunion and, last week, they outscored Cambridge High School<\/strong> 6-0.<\/p>\n

Waeden Plaatjes<\/strong>, captain Tre’ Gilbert<\/strong>, and Kungothando Macanda<\/strong> were among the goal scorers in both matches.<\/p>\n

The hosts are not short of confidence and will want to continue their record of success against the Makhanda side. Post the Covid-19 pandemic, the teams have met twice, in 2022 and 2023, and it\u2019s Selborne who’ve won both times, winning 3-0 and 2-0 respectively.<\/p>\n

St Andrew’s head coach Dean Ferreira<\/strong> will be eager to reverse that trend and his side will be inspired by the promising season they’ve put together.<\/p>\n

They began their 2024 campaign sublimely, going undefeated at the Tony Godding Festival, where they also defeated Grey College 2-1.<\/p>\n

They were also in action at the Bishops 175 Hockey Festival<\/strong> and the St Stithians Easter Hockey Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At Bishops, Ferreira’s side won their first three matches, but they then went down 1-2 to the hosts, before losing their final match 0-3 against Michaelhouse.<\/p>\n

They had mixed results, including a couple of draws, at Saints. Then it was on to their Eastern Cape derby matches. So far, they’ve been on a good run.<\/p>\n

Apart from last week’s defeat against the in-form Grey High, they’ve posted wins over Hudson Park<\/strong> (3-0), and Cambridge High<\/strong> (7-1).<\/p>\n

Winning away from home will be a big ask, but the boys from Makhanda have the quality to spring a surprise ahead of their matches next month against Queen’s College and Kingswood.<\/p>\n

Other matches<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an early game, on Friday, Graeme College faces Dale.<\/p>\n

Stirling hosts Hudson Park, while Woodridge takes a short trip to Pearson High School in their final match of the term.<\/p>\n

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

Friday, 31 May\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:30 – Graeme College vs Dale College
\n18:00 – Stirling High vs Hudson Park
\n18:45 – Selborne College vs St Andrews College
\n19:15 – Pearson vs Woodridge College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St Andrew’s College, after going down 1-2 to Grey High School last weekend, faces a stiff challenge in its quest to return to winning ways, with a Friday night showdown against highly motivated Selborne College in East London. Catch the action LIVE on SuperSport Schools. Push-back for the big clash is set for 18:45 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47188","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\/47188","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=47188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}