{"id":48489,"date":"2024-06-08T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=48489"},"modified":"2024-06-08T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:28:08","slug":"maris-stella-thrilled-after-successful-day-at-issf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=48489","title":{"rendered":"Maris Stella thrilled after successful day at ISSF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Maris Stella School<\/strong> enjoyed a good run on Friday’s first day of the Independent Schools’ Sports Festival (ISSF)<\/strong> at St Stithians College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ISSF is a two-day annual festival, which brings together the top Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal girls’ schools to test their hockey skills against each other, with the host alternately annually between the two provinces.<\/p>\n

This year’s even marks the third time that St Stithians has hosted it, having previously filled in the role in 2001 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Maris Stella under the mentorship of their coaches Eloise Walters <\/strong>and Ethan Biggar<\/strong>, delivered three wins on the opening day.<\/p>\n

The Durban side secured a 1-0 victory over St Dominic’s Catholic School for Girls<\/strong> in their opener, following a back-and-forth clash. In their second outing, they outduelled Rosebank’s St Teresa’s School<\/strong>, winning 1-0 again, thanks to Alluluto Sikhosana, who scored the winning goals in both matches.<\/p>\n

Walters’ girls stepped up their performance in the third game, brushing aside Brescia House<\/strong> 3-1. Again, Sikhosana was among the goals, striking twice, while Juliette Fenton<\/strong> added a third as the coastal crew took a comfortable win.<\/p>\n

Walters described her team as ecstatic after their three victories: “We, as Maris Stella, are happy to be a part of this wonderful festival. The girls work hard and grow as a team in every match that they play. We are excited for the future of Maris Stella hockey,” said enthused.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four matches were played on the opening day across four fields. The results included\u00a0St Anne’s Diocesan College<\/strong> defeating St Andrew’s<\/strong>\u00a01-0, and Epworth<\/strong> repeating that scoreline in a win over<\/p>\n

St Teresa’s dominated against St John’s, winning 4-0, after racing into a 3-0 lead after only 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Mary’s DSG (Pretoria) 0-4 Wykeham Collegiate
\nWykeham Collegiate 5-0 Brescia House
\nWykeham Collegiate 1-1 Kingsmead
\nSt Mary’s DSG (Pretoria) 0-3 Our Lady of Fatima
\nSt Mary’s DSG (Kloof) 4-0 Roedean School
\nSt Mary’s DSG (Kloof) 1-1 St Stithians
\nSt Mary’s DSG (Kloof) 2-0 Brescia House
\nSt Stithians 0-0 Durban Girls’ College
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 2-0 Durban Girls’ College
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 1-0 St John’s
\nDurban Girls’ College 2-0\u00a0 Roedean
\nSt Andrew’s 0-1 St John’s
\nSt Andrew’s 0-1 St Mary’s DSG (Kloof)
\nSt John’s 4-0 St Teresa’s
\nSt Teresa’s 0-3 Our Lady of Fatima
\nOur Lady of Fatima 3-0 St Mary\u2019s PTA
\nSt Anne’s 1-0 St Andrew’s
\nSt Anne’s 0-0 St Mary\u2019s Waverley
\nEpworth 1-0 St Mary’s DSG (Pretoria)
\nEpworth 0-0 St Dominic’s
\nMaris Stella 1-0 St Dominic’s
\nMaris Stella 1-0 St Teresa’s
\nMaris Stella 3-1 Brescia House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maris Stella School enjoyed a good run on Friday’s first day of the Independent Schools’ Sports Festival (ISSF) at St Stithians College. The ISSF is a two-day annual festival, which brings together the top Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal girls’ schools to test their hockey skills against each other, with the host alternately annually between the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48489","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\/48489","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=48489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}