{"id":62419,"date":"2025-01-12T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=62419"},"modified":"2025-01-12T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:44:13","slug":"potch-volkies-pulls-off-low-scoring-win-while-st-andrews-takes-down-menlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=62419","title":{"rendered":"Potch Volkies pulls off low scoring win, while St Andrew’s takes down Menlo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kody Klaas. Photo: Grey High School on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Potchefstroom Volkskool<\/strong>‘s Olefa Padi<\/strong> played a leading role in his side’s successful defence of a low T20 score on Sunday, the last day of the Grey Festival.<\/p>\n

Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools<\/strong> – (www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The spinner snared four important wickets to help his team defend only 114 runs and score a 16-run victory over Glenwood<\/strong> at Grey College’s Tommix Oval<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With Padi leading the way, the Durban school mustered only 97\/7 in their 20 overs.<\/p>\n

He, however, received outstanding assistance from Handr\u00e9 de\u00a0Beer<\/strong>, who showed that a nagging line and length are still highly effective in the shorter form of the game.<\/p>\n

De Beer, like Padi, sent down four overs and provided a miserly return of 1\/9, delivering his quota in two two-over spells. He also bowled the last over of the match, with 18 runs to defend, and conceded only a single.<\/p>\n

Captain and opening batsman, Louis van Wyk,<\/strong> continued his searing form, racking up a third successive half-century, which was the key knock in Volkskool’s innings.<\/p>\n

Andrew Sobiech<\/strong> delivered with both bat and ball as St Andrew’s School<\/strong> secured a five-wicket win over Menlopark<\/strong>, their first of the festival. Sobiech captured 2\/26 and then played a match-winning innings of 63 runs as Saints chased down 165 for victory. Naud\u00e9 Botha<\/strong> also played a vital role with 38 runs coming from his blade.<\/p>\n

Dian van Zyl<\/strong>, the Menlopark captain and his side’s leading run scorer for the week, fell just short of a third half-century on the trot, putting together an entertaining innings of 42 runs.<\/p>\n

Northwood<\/strong> closed out a strong four days as they, too, claimed a five-wicket victory over a struggling Selborne College<\/strong> team. This time around, it was the bats of Ross McGlashan<\/strong> (53) and Jamie Wimble<\/strong> (44*) who helped them pull off a successful run chase. Wimble also delivered with the ball, snapping up 2\/13 in two overs.<\/p>\n

Not even a half-century from Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong>‘ T20 specialist batsman, Aiden Reyneke<\/strong> was enough to stop Grey High School<\/strong> from recording another convincing victory. Reyneke led the way for the Johannesburg school, playing with authority to score 58 in his side’s 149\/7.<\/p>\n

Luke Tait<\/strong> (49*), who thoroughly deserved a half-century, played exquisitely to stay unbeaten for the winning team. Connor Parry<\/strong> (40*) joined in on the fun as the pair contributed a combined 89 runs to get the side from Gqeberha home with eight wickets to spare.<\/p>\n

Summarised scorecards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Potchefstroom Volkskool 113\/10<\/strong> (Louis van Wyk 52; Krian Jugoo 3\/16, Akhil Maharaj 2\/15; Glenwood 97\/7<\/strong> (Kreesan Pillai 43; Olefa Padi 4\/22). Potchefstroom Volkskool won by 16 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Menlopark 164\/8<\/strong> (Dian van Zyl 42, Jan-Willem Pienaar 34*, Morn\u00e9 Koekemoer 28, Tiaan Serfontein 24; Jonathan Hickley 2\/10, JD Basson 2\/24, Andrew Sobiech 2\/26); St Andrew’s School 165\/5<\/strong> (Andrew Sobiech 63, Naud\u00e9 Botha 38, Leon Athanasiou 21; James Bronkhorst 2\/3, Jan-Willem Pienaar 2\/28). St Andrew’s School won by five wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Selborne College 158\/7<\/strong> (Aaron Senekal 37, Cian O’Neill 31, Joshua Wilkie 23; Aidan Bauristhene 3\/38, Jamie Wimble 2\/13); Northwood 162\/5<\/strong> (Ross McGlashan 53, Jamie Wimble 44*; Bungqina Nuku 1\/19). Northwood won by five wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jeppe High School for Boys 149\/7<\/strong> (Aiden Reyneke 58, Zizi Mkhize 26, Keegan Caxeiro 23; Nathan Howell 3\/28); Grey High School 154\/2<\/strong> (Luke Tait 49*, Connor Parry 40*, Charl Posthumus 34, Teun Kloppenberg 23; Shreshth Kumar 1\/31). Grey High School won by eight wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potchefstroom Volkskool‘s Olefa Padi played a leading role in his side’s successful defence of a low T20 score on Sunday, the last day of the Grey Festival. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com) The spinner snared four important wickets to help his team defend only 114 runs and score a 16-run victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62419","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\/62419","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=62419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}