{"id":73092,"date":"2025-05-23T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=73092"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:09:17","slug":"st-albans-to-tackle-pretoria-boys-high-in-jacaranda-city-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=73092","title":{"rendered":"St Alban’s to tackle Pretoria Boys High in Jacaranda City derby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: St Alban’s College on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the winter school sports season at its peak, the City of Tshwane is set for an exciting clash on the AstroTurf between St Alban’s College<\/strong> and Pretoria Boys’ High School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The schools will complete a full fixture list of matches over Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

Catch the action LIVE on SuperSport Schools<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The first teams meet in a Hyundai Friday Nite Lights<\/strong> clash. Last year, it was Boys High who scored a narrow victory, winning 2-1.<\/p>\n

Coach Guy Elliott<\/strong>‘s St Alban’s team has put together an encouraging season. Most recently, the beat a tough Clifton College<\/strong> team 2-1 but then went down 0-1 to Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein.<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Alban’s Director of Hockey Robin Jones<\/strong> said the blue and grey has worked diligently to prepare for the showdown with their city rivals.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a good week of preparation. The term is in full swing after the Easter holidays, and it’s been nice to be back in a normal routine,” he declared. “Hopefully, we can translate all the work we’ve done at training into our performance on the field.”<\/p>\n

Jones said there is healthy competition between the schools. \u201cIt is always a good atmosphere on a Friday night for this fixture,\u201d he reckoned. \u201cBoth hockey clubs have an enormous amount of respect for one another, and it is always a fierce contest.<\/p>\n

“We have a really good relationship with PBHS, and we are certainly looking forward to sharing some special moments when the final whistle goes.”<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cA win on Leseding (St Alban’s home turf) on a Friday night is always special, but our primary focus will be on putting together a solid performance. If we can do that, hopefully the result will take care of itself.”<\/p>\n

Pretoria Boys High’s most recent match finished in a 2-0 win over Sutherland High School<\/strong>. Before that, they came out on the wrong end of the result against Hilton College<\/strong>, losing 0-1 away from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the winter school sports season at its peak, the City of Tshwane is set for an exciting clash on the AstroTurf between St Alban’s College and Pretoria Boys’ High School. The schools will complete a full fixture list of matches over Friday and Saturday. Catch the action LIVE on SuperSport Schools The first teams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73092","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\/73092","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=73092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}