{"id":63944,"date":"2025-02-03T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63944"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:49:30","slug":"affies-crowned-itec-grey-college-water-polo-tournament-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63944","title":{"rendered":"Affies crowned ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63953\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63953\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/water-polo-itec-affies-020225-400x302.jpg\" alt=\"The 2025 ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament champions, Affies. Photo: Grey College on Facebook.\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2025 ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament champions, Affies. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greycollege\"><strong>Grey College on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> <strong>(<em>Affies<\/em>)<\/strong> clinched the <strong>ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament<\/strong> on Sunday in Bloemfontein with a battling 14-11 victory over <strong>Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Affies, beaten in the final in the previous two years by Selborne College, was desperate to go all the way on this occasion and make it third time lucky.<\/p>\n<p>They made a good start, scoring the first goal of the contest, but Jeppe quickly responded. By the end of the first chukka, it was 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Coach <strong>Lucky Letshabo<\/strong>&#8216;s Jeppe side, then, hit the front, striking twice to open up a 4-2 advantage. It didn&#8217;t last long as Affies fought their way back and levelled.<\/p>\n<p>At 5-5, Jeppe had an opportunity to hit the front, but they were denied by the Affies&#8217; netminder.<\/p>\n<p>Then, for the first time since the first chukka, Affies snatched the lead. Goals, suddenly, began to rain down. At the end of the third chukka, the Pretoria school had one hand on the trophy, leading 11-8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waterpolo Final - Affies vs Jeppe - Grey College Water Polo Tournament - 2 February 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jV5SbFHCfpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With typical grit, Jeppe kept fighting until the end. They shared the honours in the last chukka, with both teams netting three times, but that left Affies the champions by a 14-11 margin.<\/p>\n<p>In a high-scoring battle for third place, <strong>Northwood<\/strong> outlasted <strong>Reddam House Constantia<\/strong> 17-13, while <strong>Grey High School<\/strong> ended fifth after a second win over <strong>Maritzburg College<\/strong>, beating the KZN side 10-6. They had beaten them 14-6 earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pretoria Boys High School (PBHS)<\/strong> doubled up Stirling High&#8217;s score, recording a 10-5 win to place seventh. <strong>Glenwood House<\/strong> took ninth place after a hard-fought 11-9 victory over the hosts, <strong>Grey College<\/strong>, and <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> enjoyed a 23-3 romp in their last outing against the <strong>Grey College 2nd team<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playoff Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Affies 14-11 Jeppe<br \/>\nNorthwood 17-13 Reddam House Constantia<br \/>\nGrey High 10-5 Maritzburg College<br \/>\nPretoria Boys High 10-5 Stirling High<br \/>\nGlenwood House 11-9 Grey College<br \/>\nPaarl Boys&#8217; High 23-3 Grey College II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool (Affies) clinched the ITEC Grey College Water Polo Tournament on Sunday in Bloemfontein with a battling 14-11 victory over Jeppe High School for Boys. Affies, beaten in the final in the previous two years by Selborne College, was desperate to go all the way on this occasion and make it third time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63944","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\/63944","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=63944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}