{"id":53645,"date":"2024-07-29T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53645"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:41:08","slug":"st-marys-waverley-wins-pullen-trophy-waterkloof-lifts-howell-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53645","title":{"rendered":"St Mary’s Waverley wins Pullen Trophy, Waterkloof lifts Howell Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: St Mary’s School, Waverley on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St Mary’s Waverley<\/strong> might have missed out on qualifying for the Fairtree Top 12<\/strong> for a first time in 2024, but they showed they remain a force to be reckoned with by capturing the Pullen Trophy<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

They beat Ho\u00ebrskool Monument<\/strong> 2-1 in the final to succeed Top 12-qualified St Stithians Girls College<\/strong> as the champions.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Saints<\/strong> won the title with a 3-1 win over Noordheuwel<\/strong> in the title-decider.<\/p>\n

The Pullen and Howell competitions feature leading schools from the Johannesburg, Pretoria and the surrounding regions.<\/p>\n

St Mary’s last won the Pullen Trophy in 2022, after a six-year wait, so it wasn’t a long title wait for the school’s renowned hockey programme to take hold of the silverware again. That same year, their u16 team finished fourth, losing to Monnas <\/strong>in the third and fourth playoff. On Saturday, St Mary’s got the better of the team from Krugersdorp.<\/p>\n

The Waverley girls were first onto the score sheet when Zara Colyn<\/strong> struck four minutes from the end of the first chukka.<\/p>\n

Monument levelled in the second chukka, when Hannah Quinton<\/strong> scored from a penalty corner.<\/p>\n

The winner, though, came from Lucy Viljoen<\/strong> in the final chukka, also from a PC.<\/p>\n

St Mary’s coach Cindy Brown<\/strong> said consistency won her team the trophy. “We were consistent throughout the tournament. I think we played some good hockey.<\/p>\n

“Today was a tough game,” she added, “but we scored the goals when it counted.<\/p>\n

“Monument played well, and I am chuffed that the girls pulled through,\u201d Brown concluded.<\/p>\n

In the u16 final Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong> beat their Pretoria rivals Garsfontein<\/strong> 3-0 to lift the Howell Trophy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St Mary’s Waverley might have missed out on qualifying for the Fairtree Top 12 for a first time in 2024, but they showed they remain a force to be reckoned with by capturing the Pullen Trophy on Saturday. They beat Ho\u00ebrskool Monument 2-1 in the final to succeed Top 12-qualified St Stithians Girls College as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":53788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53645","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\/53645","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=53645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}