{"id":54727,"date":"2024-08-10T10:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T08:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=54727"},"modified":"2024-08-10T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T08:08:52","slug":"grey-and-northwood-remain-unbeaten-at-u18-guschkie-top-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=54727","title":{"rendered":"Grey and Northwood remain unbeaten at u18 Guschkie Top Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54738\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54738\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hockey-northwood-100824-400x413.jpg\" alt=\"Northwood is in a strong position to defend their title after the first two days of theu18 Guschkie Top Schools Tournament. \" width=\"400\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northwood&#8217;s title defence remains on course after the Knights produced a string of impressive victories over the first two days of theu18 Guschkie Top Schools Tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s host, <strong>Grey College<\/strong>, and KZN&#8217;s <strong>Northwood<\/strong> triumphed in the quarterfinals of the <strong>u18 Guschkie Top Schools Tournament<\/strong> on Friday to keep their records clean.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, they met in the final, with Northwood winning 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament kicked off on Thursday with a double-header, with <strong>Worcester Gim<\/strong> facing <strong>DF Malan<\/strong> in a meeting of Western Cape rivals, while Northwood&#8217;s <strong>Knights<\/strong> faced <strong>St Andrew&#8217;s School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gimmies and DF Malan were involved in a titanic struggle, which was settled only seconds from the final whistle when DF Malan scored the winning goal to capture a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Northwood showed off their intentions to defend their title when they rolled to a 4-0 victory over St Andrew&#8217;s. They repeated that score later in the day in a victory over DF Malan.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, they continued their free scoring ways, slotting four times against <strong>Somerset College<\/strong>, who did, at least, manage to pierce the Northwood defence once.<\/p>\n<p>Grey College has impressed. They opened their challenge with a 4-0 romp against <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool\u00a0 Eldoraigne<\/strong> 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Friday they brushed aside <strong>Menlopark<\/strong>, winning 3-0, thanks to goals from <strong>Matthias Visser, Waldo Konig<\/strong>, and <strong>MJ Bam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their second outing of the day, they took on their Bloemfontein rivals, St Andrew&#8217;s. After a tight opening chukka, the game was broken open in the second quarter when Grey struck two brilliant field goals through <strong>Ayanda Ngxaki<\/strong> and <strong>Wian du Plooy<\/strong>. Those were the only goals of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Grey College coach <strong>Wayne Coetzee<\/strong> felt his team could have performed much better: &#8220;We were not at our best, but we will take the result as we had different goal scorers on the sheet, which will give them confidence going forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals will see Grey take on DF Malan, who handed Saints a 0-1 defeat later in the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worcester Gimnasium 2-3 DF Malan<br \/>\nNorthwood 4-0 Saints<br \/>\nGrey College 4-0 Eldoraigne<br \/>\nSomerset College 1-2 Menlopark<br \/>\nSaints 1-3 Worcester Gimnasium<br \/>\nDF Malan 0-4 Northwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grey College 3-0 Menlopark<br \/>\nSt Andrew&#8217;s School 0-1 DF Malan<br \/>\nSomerset College 2-3 Eldoraigne<br \/>\nSt Andrew&#8217;s School 0-2 Grey College<br \/>\nNorthwood 4-1 Somerset College<br \/>\nDF Malan 3-2 Eldoraigne<br \/>\nWorcester Gimnasium (3) 1-1 (1) Menlopark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament&#8217;s host, Grey College, and KZN&#8217;s Northwood triumphed in the quarterfinals of the u18 Guschkie Top Schools Tournament on Friday to keep their records clean. Last year, they met in the final, with Northwood winning 2-0. The tournament kicked off on Thursday with a double-header, with Worcester Gim facing DF Malan in a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":54738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54727","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\/54727","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=54727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}