{"id":76032,"date":"2025-06-24T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=76032"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:07:57","slug":"2025-lsen-week-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=76032","title":{"rendered":"2025 LSEN Craven Week fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8878 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LSENWeek-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"LSENWeek\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LSENWeek-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LSENWeek-946x1024.jpg 946w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LSENWeek-768x832.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LSENWeek.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <strong>2025 LSEN (learners with special needs) Craven Week<\/strong> will be hosted at <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Hoogenhout<\/strong> in <strong>Bethal, Mpumalanga<\/strong>, with matches taking place on Saturday, 28 June, Monday, 30 June, and Tuesday, 1 July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The action starts at 08:30 each day and ends as late as 17:30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The opening ceremony follows the day&#8217;s second last game, between <strong>Western Province<\/strong> and <strong>South Western Districts<\/strong>, with the last game on Saturday featuring the home side, <strong>the Pumas<\/strong>, tackling the <strong>Griffons<\/strong> at 16:00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arguably the biggest match of the day takes place at 09:50, though, when the <strong>Lions<\/strong> take on the <strong>Blue Bulls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the 2024 tournament, <strong>Eastern Province<\/strong> claimed the title of unofficial champions with a hard-fought 17-7 win over <strong>Western Province<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The team from the Eastern Cape will be aiming to go back-to-back to show that last year&#8217;s success was not an underdog&#8217;s story. They want to show that they&#8217;re one of the big guns. Again, a hungry Western Province side, will be one of their toughest challengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, if the past is an accurate indicator, then the tournament can be won by any side which brings its A- game to the field on matchday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Memorably, in 2017, the <strong>Valke<\/strong>, went through the tournament unbeaten despite being one of the smallest regions in the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Saturday 28 June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">08:30 &#8211; Sharks vs Leopards<br \/>\n09:50 &#8211; Golden Lions vs Blue Bulls<br \/>\n11:10 &#8211; Valke vs Cheetahs<br \/>\n12:40 &#8211; Western Province vs South Western Districts<br \/>\n14:00 &#8211; Eastern Province vs Boland<br \/>\n16:00 &#8211; Pumas vs Griffons<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Monday 30 June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TBA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Tuesday 1 July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 LSEN (learners with special needs) Craven Week will be hosted at Ho\u00ebrskool Hoogenhout in Bethal, Mpumalanga, with matches taking place on Saturday, 28 June, Monday, 30 June, and Tuesday, 1 July. The action starts at 08:30 each day and ends as late as 17:30. The opening ceremony follows the day&#8217;s second last game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":8944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76032","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\/76032","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}