{"id":63902,"date":"2025-02-05T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63902"},"modified":"2025-02-05T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:45:59","slug":"st-johns-college-and-soweto-basketball-academy-lift-aisj-basketball-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63902","title":{"rendered":"St John’s College and Soweto Basketball Academy lift AISJ basketball titles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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u18 2025 champions of the American International School of Johannesburg Tournament, Soweto Basketball Academy. Photo. Mammoth Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday, St John’s College won the u18 boys’ boys’ title at the annual American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ)<\/strong> Basketball Tournament, while the Soweto Basketball Academy<\/strong> took the girls’ u18 honours.<\/p>\n

St John’s had fallen short a number of times previously in the AISJ event, but this time they went all the way, holding off Michael Mount Waldorf School<\/strong> 21-19 in the final.<\/p>\n

All credit to St John’s, they had to negotiate a tricky path to the title game.<\/p>\n

In their semi-final, they took on St Benedict’s College and claimed a 10-point win, prevailing 46-36. It was a reversal of the 2024 final in which Bennies<\/strong><\/em> had convincingly dispatched St John’s, winning 54-30.<\/p>\n

There was some consolation for St Benedict’s. They scored a 38-32 win over St Stithians to claim the bronze medal.<\/p>\n

St John’s didn’t finish with a clean record, though. Pool A was extremely closely contested, with St John’s, Pretoria Boys High<\/strong>, and Michael Mount Waldorf all winning two and losing one game.<\/p>\n

Boys High beat Michael Mount 46-39, Michael Mount beat St John’s 44-41, and St John’s beat Pretoria Boys High 47-44. In the final, St John’s reversed their earlier defeat to Michael Mount.<\/p>\n

St Stithians won all three of their Pool B matches, beating King’s School Linbro Park<\/strong> 25-19, St Benedict’s 35-31, and AISJ 49-29. As happened with St John’s and Michael Mount, there was a reversal later in the tournament, when Bennies beat Saints for third place.<\/p>\n

Westville Boys’ High<\/strong> enjoyed the smoothest progress through the pool games. They were extended by ESCA<\/strong>, winning 35-32, but, in their other games, they outplayed St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong> 22-10, and overran St Andrew’s College<\/strong> 45-19.<\/p>\n

In the u18 girls’ division, the Soweto Basketball Academy successfully defended the title they won in 2024, adding it to a growing list of accolades. Up against Sacred Heart<\/strong> in the gold medal game, the Soweto Basketball Academy recorded a 32-24 win.<\/p>\n

They had been stretched by Redhill<\/strong> in their semi-final, claiming a 31-28 victory, while Sacred Heart had advanced to the final by overpowering AISJ 23-11.\u00a0 In the playoff for third, Redhill defeated the hosts, AISJ, 41-30.<\/p>\n

David Tirkaso<\/strong>, of St John’s, was named the boys’ Most Valuable Player (MVP), while\u00a0Ntokozo Thonga,<\/strong> from the Soweto Basketball Academy, won the girls’ MVP.<\/p>\n

Boys’ Semi final<\/strong><\/p>\n

St John’s College 46-36 St Benedict’s
\nMichael Mount Waldorf School 33-29 Saints<\/p>\n

Girls’ Semi-final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sacred Heart 23-11 AISJ
\nSoweto Basketball Academy 31-28 Redhill<\/p>\n

Boys’ 3rd place<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Benedict’s 38-32 St Stithians<\/p>\n

Girls’ 3rd place\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Redhill 41-30 AISJ<\/p>\n

Boys’ Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

St John’s College 21-19 Michael Mount Waldorf School<\/p>\n

Girls’ Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soweto Basketball Academy\u00a0 32-24 Sacred Heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, St John’s College won the u18 boys’ boys’ title at the annual American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ) Basketball Tournament, while the Soweto Basketball Academy took the girls’ u18 honours. St John’s had fallen short a number of times previously in the AISJ event, but this time they went all the way, holding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":63982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63902","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\/63902","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}