{"id":76739,"date":"2025-07-02T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=76739"},"modified":"2025-07-02T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:09:04","slug":"pool-b-undecided-ahead-of-last-round-of-group-games-at-sashoc-national-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=76739","title":{"rendered":"Pool B undecided ahead of last round of group games at SASHOC National Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Western Province A drew with Western Province B on Wednesday, but Province A, with three wins before that, remains on track to qualify for the semi-finals of the SASHOC National Week. Photo: Teamphoto SA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Western Province A<\/strong> planted one foot in the semi-finals of the SASHOC National Week <\/strong>when they drew 0-0 with Western Province B<\/strong> at Maritzburg College<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Coach Natalie Esteves’<\/strong> side hasn\u2019t lost, recording three wins and a draw in their four outings.<\/p>\n

Province has one more match to go on Thursday and a win in that fixture would confirm their passage into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Making it to the top four would be a huge improvement over their seventh-place finish in the 2024 tournament.<\/p>\n

Province has 10 points from four games. A draw against second-placed KZN Coastal<\/strong>, whom they meet on Thursday morning, would put them into the final four.<\/p>\n

Coastal, meanwhile, has nine points and would need Northern Gauteng A<\/strong> and Province B to do them favours should they fail to beat Province A.<\/p>\n

The KZN girls kept their semi-final dream alive with a tight 1-0 win over Northerns. The three points they picked up for the win kept them three clear of their neighbours, KZN Inland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, unlike Coastal, who have played four games, Inland has played only three matches and has two games to go on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Coach Morne Odendaal<\/strong>‘s side inserted themselves into the conversation for a semi-final berth by beating Border A 4-1 on Wednesday, with goals from Emma Williams<\/strong>, Annabelle Balmer<\/strong>, Jasmin Kelly<\/strong>, and Siphokazi Mpontshane<\/strong>. Busiwe Mayekiso<\/strong> replied for Border.<\/p>\n

Border has found the going tough at the SASHOC National Week and had scored only one goal ahead of their clash with KZN Inland, by Tarelle Jones<\/strong> in a 1-3 loss to Northern Gauteng A.<\/p>\n

That defeat was followed by an 0-7 setback against Western Province A and a 0-5 defeat at the hands of KZN Coastal A.<\/p>\n

It looked as if they might be in for more of the same as KZN Inland made a blistering start, drawing blood in the first minute of play with a wonderful field goal from Emma Williams.<\/p>\n

However, in a move that was uncharacteristic of their form, Border issued an almost immediate response to Inland\u2019s goal with a reply from Busiwe Mayekiso in the fourth minute. For the next 32 minutes, it remained 1-1.<\/p>\n

Six minutes into the second half, Balmer broke the stalemate with a penalty corner conversion. Then, in the final stages of the contest, the host province executed a one-two punch to put the match beyond Border\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n

Kelly increased their advantage to 3-1 with a field goal, which was followed soon after by Mpontshane’s second goal of the IPTs and Inland\u2019s fourth.<\/p>\n

Odendaal\u2019s side has an opportunity to put the top two teams under pressure when they go up against last year’s runners-up, Northerns, at 07:30.<\/p>\n

Should they make it past Northerns, they will have an opportunity to punch their ticket to the semi-finals when they face Western Province B at 17:25.<\/p>\n

The top of the table contest between Western Province A and KZN Coastal will be in the spotlight at 10:20.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Province A: 0<\/strong>. Western Province B: 0<\/strong>.
\nKZN Coastal A: 1<\/strong> – Jada Blair. Northern Gauteng A: 0<\/strong>.
\nKZN Inland A: 4<\/strong> – Emma Williams, Annabelle Balmer, Jasmin Kelly, Siphokazi Mpontshane. Border A: 1<\/strong> – Busiwe Mayekiso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Western Province A planted one foot in the semi-finals of the SASHOC National Week when they drew 0-0 with Western Province B at Maritzburg College on Tuesday. Coach Natalie Esteves’ side hasn\u2019t lost, recording three wins and a draw in their four outings. Province has one more match to go on Thursday and a win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76739","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\/76739","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=76739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}