{"id":70392,"date":"2025-04-20T08:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=70392"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:43:56","slug":"local-teams-and-maritzburg-college-on-song-at-kes-easter-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=70392","title":{"rendered":"Local teams and Maritzburg College on song at KES Easter Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maritzburg College won both of their games on Saturday, beating Selborne College 3-0 and Queen’s College 4-1. Photo: TeamPhoto SA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parktown Boys’ High School<\/strong> continued their impressive run at the King Edward VII School (KES) Hockey Festival<\/strong>, clinching a second consecutive win with a commanding performance on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The team built on the momentum of a 3-1 win over St Charles College<\/strong> on Thursday and put together a well-structured performance, which was highlighted by sharp passing.<\/p>\n

They added a second 3-1 victory, this time over Ho\u00ebrskool Eldoraigne<\/strong>, thanks to goals from Khanyisa Kraai<\/strong>, Elethu Bam<\/strong>, and Abiye Bamson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Coach David Grace<\/strong> praised his players after the match, expressing his satisfaction with the team’s progress.<\/p>\n

“They were very good,” he said. “The team is going from strength to strength.<\/p>\n

“I feel very good about the two wins, and I am looking forward to our day three fixtures. It is going to be tough against Selborne<\/strong> and Maritzburg College<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the hosts, KES, continued their strong form, racking up successive wins over opposition from KwaZulu-Natal, beating St Charles College 3-0 and Kearsney College<\/strong> 2-0.<\/p>\n

It was a day of double celebration for KES as Ben Simon<\/strong> and Reece Small<\/strong> both earned their 50th hockey caps for the school.<\/p>\n

In other games, after a tough 2-6 defeat to KES in their opener on Thursday, Glenwood<\/strong> showed character and resilience in a 5-2 win over Helpmekaar Kollege<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Durban school looked like a completely different outfit from the one that struggled against the home side. They fell behind in the opening chukka against Helpies<\/strong><\/em> but soon equalised, thanks to their hard work pressing high and their swift ball movement.<\/p>\n

Helpmekaar responded well to again edge ahead in the second chukka and they took that 2-1 lead into half-time. Glenwood, though. kept up their intensity, and a minute before the end of their third chukka it was all-square.<\/p>\n

In the last chukka, their pressure delivered dividends as they slotted three times to break open a tight contest and won by three goals.<\/p>\n

Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong> has made an impressive start to the season and they kept rolling with two convincing wins, handing Kearsney a 4-1 defeat in the morning before outplaying Ho\u00ebrskool <\/strong> Waterkloof <\/strong>5-1.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeppe 4-1 Kearsney
\nMaritzburg College 4-1 Queen’s
\nKES 3-0 St Charles
\nWaterkloof 2-0 Pearson
\nGlenwood 5-2 Helpmekaar
\nParktown 3-1 Eldoraigne
\nMaritzburg College 3-0 Selborne
\nQueen\u2019s 3-2 St Charles
\nPearson 1\u20131 Glenwood
\nKES 2\u20130 Kearsney
\nJeppe 5-1 Waterkloof
\nSelborne\u00a01-2\u00a0Northwood<\/p>\n

Sunday, 20 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

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7:30 – <\/strong>Glenwood vs Eldoraigne
\n8:50 –<\/strong> Selborne vs Parktown
\n10:10 –<\/strong> Waterkloof vs Queen’s College
\n11:30 –<\/strong> Jeppe vs St Charles
\n12:50 –<\/strong> Northwood vs Helpmekaar
\n14:10 –<\/strong> Maritzburg College vs Parktown
\n15:30 –<\/strong> KES vs Queen’s College
\n16:50 –<\/strong> Pearson vs Helpmekaar
\n18:10 –<\/strong> Selborne vs Kearsney<\/p>\n

St John’s College Astro\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

07:30 \u2013<\/strong> Pearson High School vs Northwood
\n08:50 –<\/strong> Ho\u00ebrskool Eldoraigne vs Kearsney<\/p>\n

Monday, 21 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

King Edward VII Weinberg Astro<\/strong><\/p>\n

07:30 –<\/strong> Jeppe vs Queen’s College
\n08:50 –<\/strong>\u00a0Selborne College vs Glenwood
\n10:10 –<\/strong> Pearson vs Kearsney
\n11:30 –<\/strong>\u00a0Maritzburg College vs Eldoraigne
\n12:50 –<\/strong>\u00a0KES vs Northwood
\n14:10 –<\/strong>\u00a0St Charles vs Waterkloof
\n15:30 –<\/strong> Helpmekaar vs Parktown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parktown Boys’ High School continued their impressive run at the King Edward VII School (KES) Hockey Festival, clinching a second consecutive win with a commanding performance on Saturday afternoon. The team built on the momentum of a 3-1 win over St Charles College on Thursday and put together a well-structured performance, which was highlighted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":70397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70392","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\/70392","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=70392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}