{"id":68533,"date":"2025-03-29T20:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=68533"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:33:32","slug":"neill-leads-rondebosch-to-a-rollicking-victory-over-jeppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=68533","title":{"rendered":"Neill leads Rondebosch to a rollicking victory over Jeppe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68536\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68536 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Josh-Neill-vs-Jeppe-400x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Neill, blindside flanker from Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High School, led the way with his imposing runs against Jeppe High School for Boys. Photo: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Josh Neill<\/strong>&#8216;s headgear was, as usual, seen all over the park as he led a rollicking Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High side to a convincing 38-15 victory over Jeppe High School for Boys at the NMI Noord\/Suid Tournament at Paul Roos Gimnasium, in Stellenbosch, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Relive all the action on <strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Noord-Suid2025\"><strong>(www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took about five minutes for Neill to make his mark on the game. He burst through the Johannesburg school&#8217;s defensive line to dot down for the first of his two tries.<\/p>\n<p>That five-pointer, though, was only the start of Jeppe&#8217;s nightmares as Neill and his fellow flank, <strong>Alutha Wesi<\/strong>, kept on challenging the defence and laying down a physical challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Wesi, carrying the ball hard in the trenches, laid a platform for his teammate to exploit the space on the outside with some silky skills, but Neill wasn&#8217;t alone in enjoying the space.<\/p>\n<p>Outside centre<strong> Randall-John Davids<\/strong> punished the Zebras&#8217; defensive lapses with some outstanding runs, which also brought him a try.<\/p>\n<p>Jeppe showed some signs of the team that turned it on in the second half to beat <strong>King Edward VII School<\/strong> last weekend, with their backs impressing, especially outside centre <strong>Lindelani Nkambule<\/strong>, who showed off his wheels in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oakdale Landbou<\/strong>\u00a0performed as expected, beating <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit<\/strong>&#8216;s Rhinos 45-12. It was, however, not as easy as the scoreboard might suggest, with the side from the Lowveld fronting up physically to a massive pack. However, the Riversdal school made better use of their opportunities and did a good job of converting pressure into points.<\/p>\n<p>Inside centre <strong>Christiaan Vorster<\/strong> picked from where he had left off against Grey College, running in a hat-trick of tries. It was a well-deserved reward for a physically taxing performance, which saw him making one dominant run after another to stamp his authority in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>He found good support from hooker, <strong>Adrian Smith<\/strong>, who was at home at the back of a strong driving maul, which led to him diving over for two tries.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>Nellies<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; loose forwards, <strong>Vaughn van Zyl<\/strong> and blindside flanker, <strong>Vian Louw<\/strong>, were a cut above the rest. Van Zyl showed a few Oakdale defenders that he&#8217;s a bus on the move, while Louw was immense on defence, putting in some earth-shaking hits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCORERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High 38 (19)<\/strong> &#8211; Tries: Josh Neill (2), 13 Randall-John Davids, Alutha Wesi, Penalty Try, Caleb Bell. Conversions: Harry Soboil (3). <strong>Jeppe High School for Boys 15 (15)<\/strong> &#8211; Tries: Ndimphiwe Mjiji, Lindelani Nkambule. Conv: Nehemiah Hollenbach. Penalties: Hollenbach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oakdale Landbou 45 (24)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Tries: Christiaan Vorster (3) Adrian Smith (2), Diaan Augustyn,Reinhart Viljoen. Conversions: CT Vosloo (5). <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit 12 (7)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Tries: Tinyiko Silubane. Vian Louw. Doelskop: John Duncan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Neill&#8216;s headgear was, as usual, seen all over the park as he led a rollicking Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High side to a convincing 38-15 victory over Jeppe High School for Boys at the NMI Noord\/Suid Tournament at Paul Roos Gimnasium, in Stellenbosch, on Saturday. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools &#8211; (www.supersportschools.com) It took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":68536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68533","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\/68533","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}