{"id":55854,"date":"2024-08-28T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=55854"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:22:24","slug":"wynberg-signs-off-in-style-on-the-astro-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=55854","title":{"rendered":"Wynberg signs off in style on the Astro of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wynberg Boys’ High team ended their season with a win against DF Malan. Photo: Jo-dee Paulsen<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a challenging start to their hockey season, the Wynberg Boys’ High<\/strong> first hockey team played themselves into form and finished off their campaign with a string of stirring victories.<\/p>\n

During the week, coach Ben Wiley’<\/strong>s boys outplayed Fairmont High<\/strong> 6-1. Then, on Friday night, in their final outing on the Astro of Dreams<\/strong>, they put DF Malan<\/strong> to the sword, romping to a 7-0 victory over the visitors.<\/p>\n

Putting it all together in their final outing, Ethan Lee<\/strong>, Ethan Daniels<\/strong>, and Beni Hansen<\/strong> all delivered goals for Wynberg, while Dayle Gertson<\/strong> and Zach Gibbon<\/strong> doubled up, bagging a brace each.<\/p>\n

Those wins came after a disappointing 0-5 defeat<\/a> <\/strong>against their southern suburbs rivals, South African College High School (SACS)<\/strong>, the week before, which was a rare blip in an outstanding second half of the season.<\/p>\n

Before that clash, Wiley\u2019s boys had been in superb form and they had, arguably, ended 2024 as the second-best team behind SACS in the south of the city.<\/p>\n

Their form picked up in term three when action resumed after the SASHOC National Weeks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On the first weekend, Wynberg had a bye, but they put their time to good use and were on song in a convincing 4-0 midweek win over the UK’s Repton School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then, on the weekend that followed, they welcomed Paarl Gimnasium, the winners of the Cape Town International Hockey Tournament, to their home turf. Wiley’s boys hit their straps, coming away with a convincing 4-2 win<\/a>,<\/strong> courtesy of goals from the skipper Jordan Paulsen<\/a><\/strong>, Seth Trantraal<\/strong>, Zac Gibbon<\/strong>, and Dayyaan Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The following week, Wynberg was set an important task of trying to level their season’s series against Bishops Diocesan College<\/strong>.\u00a0In the sides’ first meeting, it was coach Ryan Julius’<\/strong>s team that had claimed an impressive 3-0 win over their rivals at the Woodlands AstroTurf<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since that defeat, however, a lot had changed and Wynberg was now playing some of its best hockey of the season. They were intent on avenging that loss against a Bishops team that had lost its way after a searing start to their 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

Wynberg duly reversed their earlier loss and claimed a victory they desperately sought, with Paulsen and company outscoring their opponents 3-1<\/a>. Liam Kleintjies <\/strong>netted the opener before the captain stole the spotlight by scoring twice in the second half.<\/p>\n

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The eight matriculants bidding farewell to the team this year. Photo: Jo-dee Paulsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the season wound towards its conclusion, Wynberg added another southern suburbs’ scalp, scoring a narrow 1-0 win over Rondebosch Boys’ High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ahead of them lay the toughest challenge of their season, a meeting with an in-form SACS team, rated by many as the best side in South Africa, at The Brewery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When the sides had clashed earlier in the season, Wynberg had held their own, going down just 0-1. On this occasion, though, playing away from home, they were overrun, with SACS storming to a 5-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Wynberg needed to quickly put that result behind them as their last two matches approached. They did that, scoring 13 goals and conceding only once in their last two matches.<\/p>\n

“The boys gelled in the second half of the season and, except for the SACS result, it was very positive,” Wiley told SuperSport Schools Plus<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The start of this week was flat due to the SACS loss, but the boys rallied nicely and put the focus on the matrics’ last games as inspiration.”<\/p>\n

Wiley identified one of the main reasons for his side’s third-term spurt, explaining: “The guys who came back from IPT came back to school hungry and ready to work hard for the badge. They added so much more to the team environment.”<\/p>\n

Friday’s big win over DF Malan was the last outing for Wynberg’s grade 12 learners – Dayle Gertson<\/strong>, Ethan Lee<\/strong>, Jordan Paulsen<\/strong>, Zach Raizenberg<\/strong>, Dayyaan Brown<\/strong>, Beni Hansen<\/strong>, Caleb Schilder<\/strong>, and Liam Kleintjies – <\/strong>and they made sure they signed off in style to bring the curtain down on a 2024 campaign that saw the team playing to its potential in the latter stages of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a challenging start to their hockey season, the Wynberg Boys’ High first hockey team played themselves into form and finished off their campaign with a string of stirring victories. During the week, coach Ben Wiley’s boys outplayed Fairmont High 6-1. Then, on Friday night, in their final outing on the Astro of Dreams, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55854","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\/55854","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=55854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}