{"id":57844,"date":"2024-09-25T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=57844"},"modified":"2024-09-25T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:08:03","slug":"reddam-constantia-crowned-st-annes-water-polo-tournament-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=57844","title":{"rendered":"Reddam Constantia crowned St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament champs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The champions of the 2024 St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament, Reddam House Constantia. Photo: Western Province Schools Water Polo on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a tense and nerve-wracking 71 games in the St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament, Reddam House<\/strong> Constantia<\/strong> blew past the hosts, St Anne’s, in the 72nd and last match, beating them 10-2 in the final on Tuesday to be crowned the champions.<\/p>\n

It was an emphatic ending to a superb run through the tournament for the Western Cape side.<\/p>\n

They set the bar high from their very first game, opening their challenge with a 13-1 shellacking of St Mary’s DSG (Kloof)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rhenish provided stiff opposition, but Reddam triumphed 6-1. After that, they brushed aside Westville Girls High’, <\/strong>racking up a 17-0 victory.<\/p>\n

That momentum continued when they beat the Stingrays, the St Anne’s Junior team, 9-2, and Herschel 8-3.<\/p>\n

In the final, the Constantia girls seized the initiative early on, racing into an 8-2 lead in the second chukka. The outcome was pretty much decided by then, but St Anne’s did well to limit the damage over the remainder of the contest, eventually going down by eight goals.<\/p>\n

It was a good tournament for the hosts, who showed off their intent in their first two fixtures, crushing The Wykeham Collegiate<\/strong> 24-0 and Danville <\/strong>25-1.<\/p>\n

\"While
While the weather was cold, the action in the pool was hot as 20 of the best teams in the country battled it out for the St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament title.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I’m so proud of my St Anne\u2019s teams, both of them,” coach Megan Sileno said. “The Junior team (the Stingrays) outdid themselves and exceeded all expectations by ending top eight and winning three out of three penalty shootouts. They were truly amazing.<\/p>\n

“And my first team was truly incredible. They showed such grit, fight, and determination. They were remarkable this weekend. I am so proud of them,” she told SuperSport Schools Plus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sileno, who will bid farewell to St Anne’s at the end of the year, thanked everyone who had supported her and the water polo programme.<\/p>\n

“I am unfortunate to be leaving St Anne’s at the end of the year,” she said. “It’s such an amazing community of parents and girls and school spirit. All of my parents were around, helping and troubleshooting. When the weather was so bad on Friday and Saturday, they were just helping,” she said, alluding to the icy conditions, which brought snow to the KZN Midlands, which could be seen from St Anne’s.<\/p>\n

“My headmistress was helping with hay and was baling for me to cover the mud. Nobody was sleeping, they were getting stuck in and our ground staff was incredible as well. They were just all over the place and amazing.<\/p>\n

“Our community catering staff and cleaning ladies all came down to show support for the final and they were remarkable. It was incredible, I am very happy with our performance and how the tournament ran,” Sileno concluded.<\/p>\n

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Herschel Girls’ School, second at the MacKenzie Cup, had to settle for fourth at the St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2023 champions, St Stithians, <\/strong>finished fifth after an impressive 9-3 win over Rhenish Girls’ High in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Coach Kyla Moolman’<\/strong>s girls had a tough opener, which ended in a 3-4 defeat at the hands of Durban Girls College (DGC)<\/strong>.\u00a0Later in the tournament, they avenged that loss, edging out DGC 6-5 in another one-goal thriller.<\/p>\n

Saints dug deep in their second outing to defeat Beaulieu 8-2. A 4-2 victory over Maris Stella<\/strong> kept them in the running for the title, but St Anne’s hurt their prospects of success by recording a 5-2 win over the Johannesburg school.<\/p>\n

Herschel, who had recently finished as the runners-up to Reddam House Constantia in the MacKenzie Cup<\/a><\/strong>, just missed out on the bronze medal, going 3-4 down to Roedean in the third-place playoff.<\/p>\n

RESULTS – DAY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Anne’s 24-0 The Wykehem Collegiate (TWC)
\nStingrays v Reddam Umhlanga 4-3
\nDGC v Maris Stella
\nSt Mary’s Kloof 15-3 Westville
\nSt Anne’s 25-1 Danville
\nHerschel 11-1 Stingrays
\nReddam Bedfordview 8-4 Beaulieu<\/p>\n

DAY 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Mary’s Kloof 1-13 Reddam Constantia
\nRoedean 18-0 Danville
\nSt Dominic’s 5-4 Reddam Umhlanga
\nDGC 4-3 St Stithians
\nSt Mary’s Kloof 5-9 Rhenish
\nSt Anne’s 5-4 Roedean
\nStingrays 6-5 Crawford La Lucia
\nMaris Stella 3-9 Reddam Bedfordview
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 11-2 Westville Girls’ High
\nKingsmead 15-0 TWC
\nHerschel 8-2 St Dominic’s
\nSt Stithians 8-2 Beaulieu
\nReddam Constantia 6-1 Rhenish
\nKingsmead 9-2 Danville
\nCrawford La Lucia 5-7 Reddam Umhlanga 5-7
\nDGC 11-10 Reddam Bedfordview
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 5-4 St Mary’s Kloof
\nKingsmead 1-5 Roedean
\nStingrays 6-5 St Dominic’s 6-5<\/p>\n

DAY 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Stithians 4-2 Maris Stella
\nRhenish 11-1 Westville Girls’ High
\nRoedean 20-0 TWC
\nHerschel 10-1 Crawford La Lucia
\nDGC 5-1 Beaulieu
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 4-6 Reddam Constantia
\nSt Anne’s 8-4 Kingsmead
\nSt Dominic’s 7-2 Crawford La Lucia
\nReddam Bedfordview 5-6 St Stithians
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 4-5 Rhenish
\nHerschel 5-2 Reddam Umhlanga
\nMaris Stella 4-5 Beaulieu
\nTWC 5-6 Danville
\nReddam Constantia 17-0 Westville Girls’ High
\nStingrays 6-5 Reddam Bedfordview
\nSt Dominic’s 4-7 St Stithians
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 2-7 Roedean
\nRhenish 8-1 Kingsmead<\/p>\n

DAY 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Danville 3-4 Westville Girls’ High
\nReddam Umhlanga 8-3 Maris Stella
\nBeaulieu 4-2 Crawford La Lucia
\nSt Mary’s Kloof 9-3 TWC
\nSt Anne’s 5-2 St Stithians
\nHerschel 11-3 Rhenish
\nRoedean 7-4 DGC
\nReddam Constantia 9-2\u00a0 Stingrays
\nReddam Bedfordview 8-2 St Mary’s Waverley
\nSt Dominic’s 6-4 Kingsmead
\nCrawford 8-1 Danville
\nMaris Stella 15-5 TWC
\nWestville Girls’ High 1-16 Beaulieu
\nReddam Umhlanga 9-1 St Mary’s
\nDGC 5-6 St Stithians
\nStingrays 3-6 Rhenish
\nSt Anne’s v Roedean (3) 5-5 (2)
\nReddam Constantia 8-3 Herschel<\/p>\n

DAY 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

TWC 7-6 Danville (19\/20)
\nCrawford La Lucia 5-2 Maris Stella (17\/18)
\nWestville Girls’ High 2-7 St Mary’s Kloof (15\/16)
\nBeaulieu (5) 3-3 (6) Reddam Umhlanga\u00a0 (13\/14)
\nSt Mary’s Waverley 9-5 Kingsmead (11\/12)
\nSt Dominic’s 2-4 Reddam Bedfordview (9\/10)
\nStingrays 2-5 DGC (7\/8)
\nSt Stithians 9-3 Rhenish 9-3 (5\/6)
\nRoedean 4-3 Herschel (3\/4)
\nSt Anne’s 2-10 Reddam Constantia (1\/2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a tense and nerve-wracking 71 games in the St Anne’s Water Polo Tournament, Reddam House Constantia blew past the hosts, St Anne’s, in the 72nd and last match, beating them 10-2 in the final on Tuesday to be crowned the champions. It was an emphatic ending to a superb run through the tournament for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":57845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57844","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\/57844","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=57844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}