{"id":67907,"date":"2025-03-22T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=67907"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:40:58","slug":"rhenish-dominates-at-synosport-greg-beling-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=67907","title":{"rendered":"Rhenish dominates at Synsport Greg Beling Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67911\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67911 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rhenish-25-03-G-1200-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"The Rhenish Girls' High 1st XI, with three emphatic victories, has proved itself to be the team to beat. Photo: Shot by Shani Photography.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rhenish Girls&#8217; High 1st XI, with three emphatic victories, has proved itself to be the team to beat. Photo: Shot by Shani Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A smattering of games on Thursday set the table for a full menu of exciting girls&#8217; hockey at the <strong>Synsport Greg Beling Hockey Festival<\/strong> on Friday, in East London.<\/p>\n<p>When the dust had settled on a day filled with entertaining action, <strong>Rhenish Girls&#8217; High School<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/leah-du-plessis-fires-rhenish-to-maiden-fairtree-super-12-title\/\"><strong>winners of the 2024 Fairtree Super 12<\/strong> <\/a>title, who began their year with <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/rhenish-kick-off-bumper-season-in-style-in-east-london\/\"><strong>a spotless record at the Greg Beling Festival<\/strong><\/a>, had again made their mark.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, it was a 5-1 win over <strong>Eunice<\/strong> that caught that eye. This time, Rhenish overpowered Eunice&#8217;s Bloemfontein rivals, <strong>Oranje<\/strong>, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>After recently making a remarkable 150th appearance for the Rhenish 1st XI, <strong>Leah du<\/strong> Plessis led the way by putting them in front with a superb field goal in the first chukka.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hockey Highlights - Sekond\u00eare Meisieskool Oranje vs Rhenish Girls&amp;apos; High School - 21 March 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vlq3EIbu7-0?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 most of their team of last year returning, big things are expected of the Stellenbosch girls and they went big in their first outing, overrunning <strong>Voortrekker<\/strong>, of Bethlehem, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Those wins followed up a 4-0 defeat of <strong>Clarendon High School for Girls<\/strong> on Thursday, where goals from <strong>Frankie Henn<\/strong>, <strong>Emma Lurie<\/strong>, <strong>Ruby Cilliers,<\/strong> and <strong>Grace Hobbs<\/strong>, set them up for two outstanding wins on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The action began early in the morning with <strong>Hudson Park High School<\/strong> taking on <strong>Paarl Vallei<\/strong> at <strong>Clarendon<\/strong>, and it was the Western Cape school that enjoyed the better of the clash, coming away with a convincing 4-0\u00a0victory.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Selborne<\/strong>, <strong>Ho\u0451rskool <\/strong><strong>Sasolburg <\/strong>met<strong> Queenstown Girls&#8217; High School (GHS)<\/strong>. In a tight contest, Sasolburg claimed a narrow 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Union High<\/strong>, from Graaff-Reinet, after romping to an 8-1 win over <strong>Cambridge High<\/strong> on Thursday, was involved in a back-and-forth tussle with GHS on Friday. The sides produced six goals between them but had to settle for a 3-3 draw.<\/p>\n<p>In other outings, <strong>Eunice High School<\/strong> came out on top against <strong>Parel Vallei<\/strong>, scoring a 3-1 victory, <strong>St Anne&#8217;s Diocesan College <\/strong>edged out Gqeberha\u2019s <strong>Pearson High School<\/strong> 1-0, and Kingsridge shared 10 goals with Westering in a thrilling 5-5 draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 21 March<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hudson Park 0-4 Parel Vallei<br \/>\nQueenstown GHS 1-2 Sasolburg<br \/>\nKingsridge 6-1 Cradock<br \/>\nRhenish 6-0 Voortrekker<br \/>\nDuineveld 3-1 Lilyfontein<br \/>\nMerrifield 3-0 Montana<br \/>\nStirling 3-0 Framesby<br \/>\nCambridge 2-0 Ho\u00ebr Volkskool Graaff-Reinet<br \/>\nKingswood College 0-1 Witteberg<br \/>\nKingsridge 5-5 Westering<br \/>\nPearson 5-1 Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg<br \/>\nHudson Park 0-5 Collegiate<br \/>\nQueenstown GHS 3-3 Union High<br \/>\nLilyfontein 2-1 Brandwag<br \/>\nFramesby 0-2 Duineveld<br \/>\nSt Anne&#8217;s 5-0 Voortrekker<br \/>\nEunice 3-1 Parel Vallei<br \/>\nCambridge 1-0 Curro Waterstone<br \/>\nMerrifield 3-0 Alexander Road<br \/>\nClarendon 2-0 Glenwood House<br \/>\nStirling 1-1 Woodridge<br \/>\nPearson 0-1 St Anne&#8217;s<br \/>\nRhenish 3-0 Oranje<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of games on Thursday set the table for a full menu of exciting girls&#8217; hockey at the Synsport Greg Beling Hockey Festival on Friday, in East London. When the dust had settled on a day filled with entertaining action, Rhenish Girls&#8217; High School, the winners of the 2024 Fairtree Super 12 title, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67907","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\/67907","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=67907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}