{"id":67982,"date":"2025-03-23T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=67982"},"modified":"2025-03-23T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:13:42","slug":"hilton-records-brilliant-win-at-kearsney-dhs-triumphs-at-michaelhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=67982","title":{"rendered":"Hilton records brilliant win at Kearsney, DHS triumphs at Michaelhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hilton College’s first team in a huddle after their 4-0 win over Westville last week. Photo: Hilton College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hilton College<\/strong> and Durban High School (DHS)<\/strong> recorded superb victories away from home on Saturday afternoon. Hilton delivered an outstanding performance in a 2-0 victory over Kearsney\u00a0College<\/strong> at Kearsney, while DHS defeated their hosts, Michaelhouse<\/strong>, 4-1.<\/p>\n

Tadi Hove<\/strong> continued his goal-scoring form for Hilton College as he fired them to victory on the AH Mason Astro, where not many visitors come away with wins.<\/p>\n

Hove was one of the scorers in Hilton’s 4-0 win over Westville Boys’ High<\/strong> last week. On Saturday, he took his tally to three goals in two games, striking twice in the space of three minutes shortly before the halftime break.<\/p>\n

The teams traded jabs through the first 26 minutes of play before Hove deflected a shot from one of his teammates from the edge of the D past the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

One of Hilton’s targets for the season is to be a great defensive team. It’s an area that they have dedicated a lot of time and attention to, according to their coach, Damian Kimfley<\/strong>. That showed on the field. Matt Thomas<\/strong> and Rob Berman<\/strong>, the two senior figures in defence, rallied the juniors around them into creating an impregnable wall.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Hilton, their captain, Xavier Enslin<\/strong>, suffered an injury in the first chukka, which led to a hospital visit.\u00a0Regan Mudau<\/strong> took over operations and ran a steady ship.<\/p>\n

Hilton pressed hard and one of those presses resulted in a turnover at the halfway line. From there, Ethan Malthby<\/strong> made an incisive run to the edge of the D before laying off to Hove, who slotted his second goal just before the halftime break.<\/p>\n

“The senior players have done well in their leadership roles, and the youngsters stepped up to the plate brilliantly. They look a lot more like the team we want them to be,” Kimfley shared after the encounter.<\/p>\n

At Michaelhouse, DHS took the lead over Michaelhouse on the Punchbowl Astro and refused to cede control of the match.<\/p>\n

The visitors went ahead shortly before the end of the first chukka when they converted a penalty corner. There was a good response from the home team, who flipped the field and piled pressure on the DHS goal.<\/p>\n

Both sides traded attacks, but it was DHS who found the back of the net again, after a fine build-up, only seconds from the break, to go into it with a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n

The frenetic nature of the contest opened the door for errors to happen and one of those mistakes resulted in DHS being awarded a penalty stroke three minutes before the end of the third chukka. Keegan Hezlett<\/strong>‘s charges made good use of the opportunity and went three goals clear.<\/p>\n

Despite trailing 0-3, Michaelhouse kept taking the game to the visitors. Their industry was rewarded when they earned a penalty stroke of their own seven minutes into the fourth quarter. A successful conversion brought coach Nick B\u00e9richon<\/strong>‘s charges back to two goals down at 1-3.<\/p>\n

Three minutes later, though, DHS closed out the contest with their fourth goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hilton College and Durban High School (DHS) recorded superb victories away from home on Saturday afternoon. Hilton delivered an outstanding performance in a 2-0 victory over Kearsney\u00a0College at Kearsney, while DHS defeated their hosts, Michaelhouse, 4-1. Tadi Hove continued his goal-scoring form for Hilton College as he fired them to victory on the AH Mason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67982","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\/67982","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}