{"id":53246,"date":"2024-07-23T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53246"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:04:23","slug":"northwood-triumphs-in-u14-kzn-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53246","title":{"rendered":"Northwood triumphs in u14 KZN Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53250\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Northwood-210724-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>Northwood School <\/strong>has been crowned the champion of the <strong>KZN High Schools Football Association&#8217;s u14 Cup<\/strong> after defeating <strong>Durban High School (DHS) <\/strong>in the final on Sunday at <strong>Crawford North Coast<\/strong>, in Ballito.<\/p>\n<p>The title-decider went down to a penalty shootout following a goalless draw, and Northwood edged it 4-3 to claim the honours.<\/p>\n<p>There was a further award for Northwood, with their outstanding <strong>Kyan Valjee<\/strong> being named the Player of the Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Intensive training sessions during the winter holidays, which were aimed at enhancing Northwood&#8217;s overall performances, paid dividends. They had been scheduled as a response to obstacles at the beginning of the school&#8217;s football season, which had prevented them from performing at their peak.<\/p>\n<p>On their way to the final, Northwood dominated against <strong>Crawford La Lucia<\/strong>, powering their way to a 5-1 victory. They followed that with a convincing 4-1 win over <strong>Carter High School <\/strong>in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals, they were comfortable winners again, defeating <strong>Durban Academy <\/strong>3-0.<\/p>\n<p>DHS pushed them all the way in the final, with little to separate the sides, but, in the end, Northwood captured the Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KZHSFA u14 Cup Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st Round<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Port Shepstone 1-4 DHS<br \/>\nGlenwood 2-3 Sastri<br \/>\nHilton 2-3 Clifton<br \/>\nIxopo 1-2 Westville<br \/>\nNorthwood 5-1 Crawford La Lucia<br \/>\nHillcrest 2-1 New Forest<br \/>\nSt Nicholas 2-8 Durban Academy<br \/>\nCarter beat Ashton on penalties<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DHS 2-1 Sastri<br \/>\nClifton 0-1 Westville<br \/>\nNorthwood 1-0 Carter<br \/>\nHillcrest 1-3 Durban Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DHS 2-1 Westville<br \/>\nNorthwood 3-0 Durban Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northwood (4) 0-0 (3) Durban High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwood School has been crowned the champion of the KZN High Schools Football Association&#8217;s u14 Cup after defeating Durban High School (DHS) in the final on Sunday at Crawford North Coast, in Ballito. The title-decider went down to a penalty shootout following a goalless draw, and Northwood edged it 4-3 to claim the honours. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53246","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\/53246","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}