{"id":59881,"date":"2024-10-24T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59881"},"modified":"2024-10-24T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:45:21","slug":"volkskool-rolls-gimnasium-for-27-to-claim-sixth-consecutive-north-west-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59881","title":{"rendered":"Volkskool rolls Gimnasium for 27 to claim sixth consecutive North West title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59898\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59898 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Volkies-Potch-Liga-Wenners-400x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potchefstroom Volkskool after claiming their historic 6th North West title. Photo: Potchefstroom Volkskool on Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Potchefstroom Volkskool<\/strong> claimed their sixth consecutive North West title on 16 October, doing it in some style by romping to an emphatic 10-wicket win over their neighbours <strong>Potchefstroom Gimnasium<\/strong> in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Relive all the action on <strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\"><strong>(www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chaos began after Volkies&#8217; opening bowler, <strong>Berno de Klerk<\/strong> claimed the wicket of the Gimmies&#8217; captain, <strong>Tommie Botha<\/strong>, on the last ball of the fourth over.<\/p>\n<p>De Klerk and fellow opening bowler <strong>Dian Liebenberg<\/strong> then proceeded to dismantle the visitor&#8217;s batting lineup as Gimmies crumbled to a mere 27 all out.<\/p>\n<p>De Klerk bowled an impressive six-over spell. He sent down 36 deliveries, of which 31 were dot balls, on his way to a fine return of 3\/13. The day, however, belonged to Liebenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Bowling 48 dot balls in the 53 he delivered, the Volkies&#8217; seamer piled on the pressure with his economical bowling, but it was the wickets&#8217; column that stood out most. Potchefstroom Gimnasium had no answers to the challenge he posed. In 8.5 overs, Liebenberg captured a decisive 7\/10, which utterly destroyed the Gimmies&#8217; batting effort.<\/p>\n<p>In stark contrast to the Gimnasium innings, the Volkskool batsmen made the pitch appear benign, knocking off the winning runs in no time at all. Requiring a paltry 28 to win, <strong>Diaan van der Merwe<\/strong> led the charge for Volkies.<\/p>\n<p>He struck an unbeaten 18 from only 12 balls, which included two fours and a six. <strong>Louis van Wyk<\/strong> weighed in with two boundaries in his 11-run contribution as the Volkies rocketed to a one-sided victory in just 17 balls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Potchefstroom Gimnasium 27\/10<\/strong> (Extras 8; Dian Liebenberg 7\/10, Berno de Klerk 3\/13); <strong>Potchefstroom Volkskool 29\/0<\/strong> (Diaan van der Merwe 18*).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Potchefstroom Volkskool won by 10 wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potchefstroom Volkskool claimed their sixth consecutive North West title on 16 October, doing it in some style by romping to an emphatic 10-wicket win over their neighbours Potchefstroom Gimnasium in the final. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools &#8211; (www.supersportschools.com) The chaos began after Volkies&#8217; opening bowler, Berno de Klerk claimed the wicket of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59881","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\/59881","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}