{"id":71447,"date":"2025-05-03T20:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=71447"},"modified":"2025-05-03T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:49:40","slug":"boishaai-bully-monnas-diamonds-on-top-in-seesaw-battle-against-maritzburg-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=71447","title":{"rendered":"Boishaai bully Monnas, Diamonds on top in seesaw battle against Maritzburg College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71453\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PSX_20250503_12154948-400x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> steamrolled Monument 85-0 on the final day of the <strong>Absa Wildeklawer-tournament<\/strong> in Kimberley.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Boishaai<\/strong><\/em> was in a devastating mood as they ran in 13 tries to hand the <em><strong>Wit Bulle<\/strong><\/em>, from Krugersdorp, their biggest hiding ever.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Monnas<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; previous biggest defeat was handed to them last year in Bloemfontein when Grey College smashed them 87-19.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Paarl&#8217;s <strong>Christiaan Grundlingh<\/strong> (hooker) and <strong>Jayden Joubert<\/strong> (flanker) both recorded first-half hat-tricks. Grundlingh also scored a fourth try in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Joubert, who usually plays lock, was outstanding on the side of the scrum before his coach, <strong>Sean Erasmus<\/strong>, replaced him at half-time. He was also named <strong>Man of the Match<\/strong> for his effort in the first 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>His replacement, <strong>Kobus Wilken<\/strong>, also produced the goods as he scored a brace of tries in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Boishaai&#8217;s fullback, <strong>Mark Grindlay<\/strong>, contributed 20 points to his side&#8217;s victory via ten conversions.<\/p>\n<p>Monnas lost both matches in Kimberley and will face <strong>EG Jansen<\/strong> in Boksburg in their next clash. This match is part of the SDC Noordvaal Cup. Boishaai&#8217;s next clash is against <strong>Grey College<\/strong> in the Brugstreet Stadium in Paarl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamantveld<\/strong>&#8216;s captain and inside centre, <strong>Jonathan Harding<\/strong>, was back in top form as his side defeated Maritzburg College by 38-31. Harding scored a hat-trick in the match that saw the two teams exchange the lead a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>He also received the <strong>Man of the Match<\/strong> honour for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Diamonds&#8217; tighthead prop, <strong>Dian Ellis<\/strong>, scored the match-winning try as he crashed over. Before his try, the scores were deadlocked at 31-all.<\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College&#8217;s hooker, <strong>Theo Boshoff<\/strong>, was his team&#8217;s best player on the day. He is difficult to bring down and scored a brace of tries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scorers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High 85 (52) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Christiaan Grundlingh (4), Jayden Joubert (3), Kobus Wilken (2), Josh le Roux, De Wet Nel, Liam de Villiers, Kaleb Holmes. Conversions: Mark Grindlay (10). <strong>Monument 0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamantveld 38 (17) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Jonathan Harding (3), Jayden de Klerk, Driaan Jacobs, Dian Ellis. Conversions: JG van Heerden (4). <strong>Maritzburg College 31 (24) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Theo Boshoff (2), Rylan Armoed, Indiphile Mlotshwa. Conversions: Liyema Tsoko (4). Penalty: Tsoko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paarl Boys&#8217; High steamrolled Monument 85-0 on the final day of the Absa Wildeklawer-tournament in Kimberley. Boishaai was in a devastating mood as they ran in 13 tries to hand the Wit Bulle, from Krugersdorp, their biggest hiding ever. Monnas&#8216; previous biggest defeat was handed to them last year in Bloemfontein when Grey College smashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71447","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\/71447","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}