{"id":73254,"date":"2025-05-24T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=73254"},"modified":"2025-05-24T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:08:16","slug":"wartburg-kirchdorf-school-wins-spar-umvoti-and-uthukela-regional-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=73254","title":{"rendered":"Wartburg Kirchdorf School wins SPAR Umvoti and uThukela Regional title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wartburg Kichdorf was crowned the SPAR KZN Girls champions of the Umvoti and uThukela Regional. Photo: Supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wartburg Kirchdorf School<\/strong> was crowned the SPAR KZN Girls Hockey Umvoti and uThukela Regional <\/strong>champion after they defeated Domino Servite School<\/strong> 1-0 in the final of the regional tournament, at Ladysmith High<\/strong>, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The victory made Wartburg the ninth team to book a berth at the SPAR KZN Tournament Grand Finals<\/strong>, which will be hosted by St Mary’s DSG, Kloof, <\/strong>on 26 and 27 July.<\/p>\n

They join St Patrick\u2019s <\/strong><\/a>(Ugo and Sisonke Regional), Felixton College<\/strong><\/a> (KZN North Coastal Regional), Ashton Ballito <\/strong><\/a>(Durban North Regional), Maris Stella <\/strong><\/a>(Durban Central Regional), St Mary’s, DSG Kloof <\/strong>(<\/a>Highway Regional), Epworth School<\/a> <\/strong>(Pietermaritzburg Central Regional), St Anne’s Diocesan College <\/strong><\/a>(Pietermaritzburg North Regional), and Kingsway High<\/strong><\/a> (Durban South Regional) in the lineup.<\/p>\n

Wartburg’s win ended Ladysmith\u2019s two-year reign in the region.<\/p>\n

In the round-robin stage of the six-team tournament, Wartburg collected 13 points out of a possible 20, scoring wins over Estcourt High,<\/strong> Ladysmith<\/strong>, and Hamilton School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was nail-biting stuff, but Wartburg’s defence pulled them through by 1-0 margins in each of their three victories. They also picked up a single point after a 0-0 draw with Greytown High<\/strong>. When they met Domino Servite, the score was also 1-0, but that was in favour of Domino Servite.<\/p>\n

At the end of the round-robin, the top two teams met for the title, with Wartburg going head-to-head against the only team that had beaten them earlier in the day, Domino Servite, who had topped the standings after bagging the maximum 20 points.<\/p>\n

They began their campaign\u00a0with a 1-0 win over Greytown and followed that up with another 1-0 victory over Wartburg. Then, they thumped Estcourt and Hamilton 3-0 and 4-0 respectively, before edging out Ladysmith 1-0.<\/p>\n

When they met for the title, Wartburg had learned from their mistakes earlier in the day. They emerged a better side, turned the tables, and handed Domino Servite their first and only loss reversing their 0-1 defeat to claim a 1-0 win.<\/p>\n

With the victory, they were crowned champion of the region.<\/p>\n

The SPAR KZN Girls’ Hockey Tournament will next head to St Dominic’s<\/strong>, in Newcastle<\/strong>, for the KZN North Regional<\/strong> tournament on 31 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wartburg Kirchdorf School was crowned the SPAR KZN Girls Hockey Umvoti and uThukela Regional champion after they defeated Domino Servite School 1-0 in the final of the regional tournament, at Ladysmith High, on Saturday. The victory made Wartburg the ninth team to book a berth at the SPAR KZN Tournament Grand Finals, which will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73254","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\/73254","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}