{"id":55864,"date":"2024-08-28T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=55864"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:05:20","slug":"curro-thatchfield-cup-champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=55864","title":{"rendered":"Curro Thatchfield Cup champions crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56004\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56004\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Curro-Festival-400x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo. Curro Thatchfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Curro Thatchfeld Cup<\/strong> produced one tightly contested game after another on Saturday as the leading teams in the competition went head-to-head for the silverware in front of a large crowd at the Pretoria school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/live.supersportschools.com\/category\/606f64751eea03755e567962\/sub-category\/66c8dddf0603a7d446ba8d0f\/\">Relive the event on SuperSport Schools.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the u19 girls&#8217; event,<strong> Curro Hazeldean<\/strong> took on <strong>Curro Soshanguve<\/strong> for a place in the final. In the only decisive victory of the playoffs, it was Hazeldean who advanced, winning 3-0 to book a meeting with <strong>The\u00a0King&#8217;s\u00a0School\u00a0Linbro Park <\/strong>for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Kings faced a challenging path to the title decider. Their clash with <strong>Curro Academy Pretoria <\/strong>finished 0-0 after regulation time, which meant a penalty shootout would decide who moved on. Kings Linbro then claimed a 5-3 victory from the spot to set up a showdown with Curro Hazeldean.<\/p>\n<p>In the decisive confrontation between Curro Hazeldean and Kings Linbro, it was, again, tight as could be, and neither team mustered a goal in regulation time. Penalties were needed to decide the champions.<\/p>\n<p>Kings Linbro had triumphed from the spot in the semi-finals, but their luck ran out in the final as Curro Hazeldean snatched a narrow 5-4 win to capture the champions&#8217; title.<\/p>\n<p>The boys&#8217; semi-finals pitted the hosts, Curro Thatchfield, against <strong>Greenside High <\/strong>and goals were again hard to come by. Curro, though, scored the only one of the contest to advance to the final where they took on <strong>Lyttelton Manor<\/strong>, who had ousted Curro Soshanguve in the final four, also by a 1-0 margin.<\/p>\n<p>On a day in which there was little to separate the contenders, the winning score was again 1-0 as Curro Thatchfield delighted their home supporters with a winning performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U19 Girls<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSemi 1: Curro Soshanguve 0-3 Curro Hazeldean<br \/>\nSemi 2: Curro Academy Pretoria (3) 0-0 (5) Kings Linbro Park<br \/>\nFinal: Curro Hazeldean (5) 0-0 (4) Kings Linbro Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>U19 Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Semi 1: Curro Thatchfield 1-0 Greenside High<br \/>\nSemi 2: Curro Soshanguve 0-1 Lyttelton Manor<br \/>\nFinal: Curro Thatchfield 1-0 Lyttelton Manor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curro Thatchfeld Cup produced one tightly contested game after another on Saturday as the leading teams in the competition went head-to-head for the silverware in front of a large crowd at the Pretoria school. Relive the event on SuperSport Schools. In the u19 girls&#8217; event, Curro Hazeldean took on Curro Soshanguve for a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":56004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55864","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\/55864","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=55864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}