{"id":56121,"date":"2024-08-30T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=56121"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:53:30","slug":"champions-of-2022-and-2023-to-meet-for-cowie-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=56121","title":{"rendered":"Champions of 2022 and 2023 to meet for Cowie Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56125\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56125\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/football-maritzburg-300824-400x327.jpg\" alt=\"Maritzburg College fell to Edendale Technical High in the quarterfinals of the Jody Momple Cup on 25 August, but they';; have a shot at a title when they face Porth Shepstone in the final of the Cowie Cup. \" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritzburg College fell to Edendale Technical High in the quarterfinals of the Jody Momple Cup on 25 August, but they&#8217;ll have a shot at a title when they face Porth Shepstone in the final of the Cowie Cup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following a rigorous four-week process of elimination, featuring top teams from across KwaZulu-Natal, the <strong>Cowie Cup <\/strong>has been narrowed down to <strong>Maritzburg College<\/strong> and <strong>Port Shepstone High<\/strong>, who will meet for the title.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a showdown between the past two champions. College lifted the title in 2022 and Port Shepstone is the reigning champion.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals, played on Wednesday, Port Shepstone faced Pietermaritzburg&#8217;s <strong>Alexandra High<\/strong>. A tight contest finished in a 1-1 draw, which necessitated a penalty shootout to determine the winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the shootout, Port Shepstone won the game 5-4, capitalising on a missed penalty by Alex, while they converted all of their spot kicks, to move on to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College, who have been in the mix for titles in a number of tournaments this season, but have not yet won any silverware, withstood a stiff challenge from <strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> to book their place in the title decider.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at home, on <strong>Barns&#8217;<\/strong>, the <strong>Red, Black and White<\/strong>, who had beaten the <strong>Griffin<\/strong> 2-1 in a recent derby clash, also in Pietermaritzburg, won 1-0 the second time around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-final Results\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College 1-0 Westville<br \/>\nPort Shepstone (5) 1-1 ( 4) Alexandra High<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College vs Port Shepstone (TBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a rigorous four-week process of elimination, featuring top teams from across KwaZulu-Natal, the Cowie Cup has been narrowed down to Maritzburg College and Port Shepstone High, who will meet for the title. It&#8217;s also a showdown between the past two champions. College lifted the title in 2022 and Port Shepstone is the reigning champion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":56125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56121","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\/56121","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=56121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}