{"id":60168,"date":"2024-10-26T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60168"},"modified":"2024-10-26T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:24:01","slug":"reddam-bedfordview-and-roedean-into-saints-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60168","title":{"rendered":"Reddam Bedfordview and Roedean into Saints final"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60172\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60172\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/water-polo-saints-invitational-261024-2-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: St Stithians College on Facebook.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ststithians\">St Stithians College on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Reddam House Bedfordview<\/strong> upset<strong> St Stithians Girls College<\/strong> in the semifinals to secure their place against <strong>Roedean School<\/strong> in Sunday&#8217;s final of the <strong>Saints Invitational Water Polo Tournament<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a very tight contest, the Reddam girls snatched a 6-5 win over the home team.<\/p>\n<p>Before that loss, St Stithians was on a roll and unbeaten in the tournament. That defeat, though, has left them in the bronze medal match against <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/cape-sides-grab-gold-at-saints-water-polo-invitational\/\">last year&#8217;s champion<\/a><\/strong>, <b>Herschel <\/b><strong>Girls School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Reddam&#8217;s record wasn&#8217;t quite perfect in the group stage, but they were undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>They had to settle for a 7-7 draw against <strong>Clarendon High School for Girls<\/strong> on Friday, but they comfortably won their other games, beating <strong>St Anne&#8217;s Diocesan College<\/strong> 8-5, Pearson High 4-0, and <strong>Beaulieu College <\/strong>14-5. Then, in the quarterfinals, they handed <strong>Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) Makhanda <\/strong>a 4-1 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Roedean&#8217;s record remained clean but imperfect, too. On Saturday, they scored an 8-4 win over St Anne&#8217;s in the quarter-finals and a narrow 4-3 victory over Herschel in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Roedean, from Parktown, started the tournament like a house on fire, charging to a 10-1 win over <strong>Kingsmead College<\/strong> on Thursday before dealing <strong>St Mary&#8217;s Waverley<\/strong> a 10-4 loss. On Friday, they thrashed the struggling <strong>Rand Park<\/strong> 22-0, only to be held to a 4-4 draw by DSG Makhanda.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s final will be played in the Saints Olympic pool at 11:30.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, DSG Makhanda faces <strong>Durban Girls&#8217; College<\/strong> (DGC) in the fifth-place playoff following a hard-fought 8-6 victory over <strong>St Dominic&#8217;s Catholic School for Girls. <\/strong>DGC, unbeaten after the opening two days, fell in the quarterfinals, going down 8-10 to Herschel.<\/p>\n<p>St Mary&#8217;s takes on St Anne&#8217;s for seventh, while <strong>Reddam House Constantia<\/strong>, beaten by DGC on the opening day, went down 6-8 to St Mary&#8217;s Waverley, and will play St Dominic&#8217;s for ninth place.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThere was some joy for <strong>Rand Park High<\/strong>, meanwhile, as they netted their first goals of the tournament in a 3-12 loss to Zimbabwe&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Chisipite Senior School<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playoffs<\/p>\n<p>DSG 8-6 St Dominic&#8217;s<br \/>\nReddam Constantia 6-8 St Mary&#8217;s Waverley<br \/>\nSt Anne&#8217;s 14-6 Kingswood<br \/>\nHerschel 7-2 Clarendon<br \/>\nRand Park 0-15 Collegiate<br \/>\nKingsmead 4-3 St Peter&#8217;s<br \/>\nBeaulieu College 9-4\u00a0Chisipite<br \/>\nPearson 4-6 Crawford Lonehill<br \/>\nRand Park 3-12 Chisipite<br \/>\nSt Peter&#8217;s 4-5 Pearson<br \/>\nKingswood 5-7 St Dominic&#8217;s<br \/>\nClarendon 5-6 Reddam Constantia<br \/>\nBeaulieu 3-7 Collegiate<br \/>\nKingsmead 6-3 Crawford Lonehill<br \/>\nHerschel 3-4 Roedean<br \/>\nDGC 11-7 St Anne&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinals<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nRoedean\u00a08-4\u00a0St\u00a0Anne&#8217;s<br \/>\nHerschel 10-8 DGC<br \/>\nDSG 1-4 Reddam Bedfordview<br \/>\nSt Stithians 8-3 St Mary&#8217;s Waverley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Herschel 3-4 Roedean<br \/>\nSt Stithians 5-6 Reddam Bedfordview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddam House Bedfordview upset St Stithians Girls College in the semifinals to secure their place against Roedean School in Sunday&#8217;s final of the Saints Invitational Water Polo Tournament. In a very tight contest, the Reddam girls snatched a 6-5 win over the home team. Before that loss, St Stithians was on a roll and unbeaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60168","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\/60168","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=60168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}