{"id":72728,"date":"2025-05-18T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=72728"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:54:20","slug":"eastern-capes-big-three-continue-to-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=72728","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cape’s big three continue to dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pearson was one of the big winners in the Eastern Cape over the weekend. Photo: Pearson High School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Collegiate Girls’ High School<\/strong>, Pearson High School<\/strong>, and DSG Makhanda<\/strong>\u00a0continued their dominance of Eastern Cape hockey on the weekend.<\/p>\n

The three sides, who are undeniably the standout teams in the province, picked up convincing wins against their provincial opposition and they did it while playing entertaining hockey.<\/p>\n

Coach Michael Abrahams<\/strong>\u2019 Collegiate side took to the turf on Saturday morning to face Kingswood College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The hosts, who defeated Rhenish Girls’ School to win the All Girls Festival<\/a><\/strong> earlier this month, were high in confidence after beating Union High School<\/strong> 9-0 a week ago.<\/p>\n

Out of the three teams, Collegiate has been up there in terms of accuracy, finding the goal with relative ease, and remaining rock solid at the back.<\/p>\n

They continued their fine form, outplaying Kingswood in almost all facets of the game to seal a comfortable 4-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Kerrin Gillies<\/strong>, who has starred for Collegiate this season, scored twice before Casey Groblaar<\/strong> and Kate Brennen<\/strong> struck to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Another side that won big on the weekend was DSG Makhanda, who hosted Queenstown Girls’ High<\/strong> and Hudson Park High School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was a momentous occasion for coach Geowynne Gamiet<\/strong> and his players as they celebrated captain Abigail Holderness reaching her 100th first-team match<\/a><\/strong> for the school.<\/p>\n

Playing in front of her schoolmates and parents, Holderness rose to the occasion and marked it by netting twice against the Komani side, while her sister, Lucy<\/strong>, also made it onto the score sheet.<\/p>\n

They were joined by Lauren Manag\u00e9<\/strong> and Mik\u00e9 Holder<\/strong>, who helped DSG seal a dominant 5-2 win.<\/p>\n

Straight after that match, DSG had a couple of hours to rest before taking on East London\u2019s Hudson Park.\u00a0Hudson, led by coach Jerry Snyman<\/strong>, was coming off a 0-5 loss to Pearson<\/strong> the previous night, and matters didn\u2019t get any easier for them.<\/p>\n

Skipper Holderness fired in another brace before Anna Olivier<\/strong> matched her contribution. Strikes by Emily Walker<\/strong>, Jessica Stevens<\/strong>, and Jocelyn Appel<\/strong> completed a 7-1 drubbing for the home side.<\/p>\n

Pearson, after going down 1-2 against DSG a week ago, had Lisa de Villiers<\/strong> score a hat-trick and Chanelle Venter<\/strong> chip in with a brace in their Friday night win over Hudson Park. It was a calm and well-executed victory for coach Anton Peltenburg<\/strong>‘s side.<\/p>\n

Clarendon High School for Girls<\/strong> romped to a 7-0 win over Cambridge High School<\/strong> behind four goals from\u00a0Caroline Kretzmann. <\/strong>Captain Cara Knott<\/strong> scored twice and Kate Booyens <\/strong>brought the total to seven.<\/p>\n

In Gqeberha, Woodridge College<\/strong> recorded a tight 1-0 victory over Alexander Road High School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

DSG Makhanda 5-2 Queenstown Girls’ High
\nClarendon 7-0 Cambridge High School
\nDSG Makhanda 7-1 Hudson Park
\nWoodridge College 1-0 Alexander Road High School
\nCollegiate Girls’ High 4-0 Kingswood College
\nPearson High 5-0 Hudson Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collegiate Girls’ High School, Pearson High School, and DSG Makhanda\u00a0continued their dominance of Eastern Cape hockey on the weekend. The three sides, who are undeniably the standout teams in the province, picked up convincing wins against their provincial opposition and they did it while playing entertaining hockey. Coach Michael Abrahams\u2019 Collegiate side took to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":72730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72728","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\/72728","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}