{"id":63582,"date":"2025-01-31T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63582"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:15:50","slug":"reddam-constantia-wins-three-at-itec-grey-college-water-polo-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63582","title":{"rendered":"Reddam Constantia wins three at ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63587\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63587\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/water-polo-generic-310125-400x319.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Brad Morgan.\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Brad Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual <strong>ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament<\/strong> kicked off on Thursday with 12 teams in action. The competition continues through the weekend until just after midday on Sunday, when the final will be played.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.supersportschools.com\/events\/679bf081946f567fc7b2caf3\/\"><strong>Catch the action LIVE on SuperSport Schools!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northwood<\/strong>, who finished in third place last year, cruised to an 18-3 win over George&#8217;s <strong>Glenwood House<\/strong> in their opener. Then, they edged out 2024&#8217;s runner-up, <strong>Affies<\/strong>, 10-9 in a very tight clash. Affies responded well by handily defeating East London&#8217;s <strong>Stirling High<\/strong> 13-5.<\/p>\n<p>There was a rude introduction for the Grey College II team. They were trounced 22-4 by the host&#8217;s first team and <strong>Reddam House Constantia<\/strong> made light work of them, rolling to a 23-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Reddam went on to beat <strong>Grey High<\/strong> 9-6 and <strong>Pretoria Boys High School (PBHS)<\/strong> 12-9 to finish the day with a perfect record of three wins from three outings, which thrust them to the top of the Pool B standings.<\/p>\n<p>That was not the only defeat that Boys High suffered. They lost a heart-breaker to <strong>Maritzburg College<\/strong>, who scored a nail-biting 8-7 win. The <em><strong>Red, Black, and White<\/strong><\/em>, also, scored another one-goal win over Grey College.<\/p>\n<p>Jeppe High School for Boys took on <strong>St John&#8217;s College<\/strong> and <strong>St Benedict&#8217;s College<\/strong> recently in preparation for the Grey College tournament, producing mixed results, with St John&#8217;s scoring a 16-5 win, and Jeppe beating <em><strong>Bennies<\/strong><\/em> 27-11 in a high-scoring fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Having those contests under the belt appeared to help, though, as Jeppe opened their account in Bloemfontein with a 14-7 win over <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A new champion will be crowned on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/day-4-hansen-stars-as-selborne-retains-itec-title\/\"><strong>Selborne College, who won in 2023 and 2024<\/strong><\/a>, are not defending the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THURSDAY RESULTS \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeppe 14-7 Paarl Boys&#8217; High<br \/>\nNorthwood 10-9 Affies<br \/>\nNorthwood 18-3 Glenwood House<br \/>\nStirling 5-13 Affies<br \/>\nStirling 6\u20135 Paarl Boys&#8217; High<br \/>\nGlenwood House 9-10 Stirling<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College 8-7 Pretoria Boys High<br \/>\nPretoria Boys High 9\u201312 Reddam House Constantia<br \/>\nReddam House Constantia 23-1 Grey College II<br \/>\nGrey College II 4\u201322 Grey College<br \/>\nGrey High 6-9 Reddam House Constantia<br \/>\nGrey High 9-8 Pretoria Boys High<br \/>\nGrey College 8-9 Maritzburg College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament kicked off on Thursday with 12 teams in action. The competition continues through the weekend until just after midday on Sunday, when the final will be played. Catch the action LIVE on SuperSport Schools! Northwood, who finished in third place last year, cruised to an 18-3 win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63582","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\/63582","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=63582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}