{"id":74046,"date":"2025-06-01T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=74046"},"modified":"2025-06-01T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:15:53","slug":"slick-michaelhouse-wins-at-pretoria-boys-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=74046","title":{"rendered":"Slick Michaelhouse wins at Pretoria Boys High"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michaelhouse after their victory over Pretoria Boys High School at Pretoria Boys High. Photo: Supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michaelhouse<\/strong> produced a polished performance to defeat Pretoria Boys High School (PBHS) <\/strong>3-1 at PBHS on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Coach Nick B\u00e9richon<\/strong>‘s side was the only one of the three KwaZulu-Natal teams visiting Gauteng to win their hockey derby.<\/p>\n

Clifton<\/strong> drew with their hosts, St David’s Marist Inanda,<\/strong> and St Charles College<\/strong> lost to St Stithians College <\/strong>respectively.<\/p>\n

No one gets an easy ride against Clifton, but, frustratingly for the Durban school, they’ve come out on the wrong side of many one-goal games this season and that was again the case against St David’s, who won 2-1. St Stithians, meanwhile, outclassed St Charles 8-3.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m so pleased with the number of chances we created,” B\u00e9richon said after Michaelhouse’s win. “We were fast and dynamic on attack and opened them up.”<\/p>\n

Although they were the visitors, Michaelhouse didn’t allow PBHS the luxury of settling down, dominating territory and possession early on, which led to their opener, scored by Brunton Bigalke<\/strong> in the first chukka.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9richon’s charges made good use of space, connected well with their passes, and their tight pressing led to numerous turnovers. They, then, turned that possession into a second goal in the second quarter, with William Gilson <\/strong>providing the finish.<\/p>\n

Playing in front of their home faithful, Boys High found a response in the third chukka to half the visitors’ lead, scoring from a scorching tomahawk after a sweeping counterattack.<\/p>\n

Michaelhouse, though, had the final say, with Henry Love<\/strong> bagging their third in the final chukka to restore their two-goal cushion. It was his ninth goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Love’s goal was the coup de grace that Michaelhouse lacked when they fell 2-3 to Northwood<\/strong><\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9richon was pleased to see his charges translate what they had worked on at training into a match situation, especially since they did it far from familiar surroundings.<\/p>\n

“It’s not easy to come up here and win but I thought that we dominated the game, so I’m very pleased we got the result,” B\u00e9richon declared.<\/p>\n

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

Michaelhouse 3-1 Pretoria Boys High
\nSt David’s Marist Inanda 2-2 Clifton College
\nSt Stithians College 8-3 St Charles College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michaelhouse produced a polished performance to defeat Pretoria Boys High School (PBHS) 3-1 at PBHS on Saturday morning. Coach Nick B\u00e9richon‘s side was the only one of the three KwaZulu-Natal teams visiting Gauteng to win their hockey derby. Clifton drew with their hosts, St David’s Marist Inanda, and St Charles College lost to St Stithians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74046","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\/74046","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=74046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}