{"id":77102,"date":"2025-07-04T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77102"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:58:57","slug":"wp-u18s-down-hosts-while-border-cd-and-bulls-u16s-share-spoils-at-fnb-girls-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77102","title":{"rendered":"WP U18s down hosts while Border CD and Bulls U16s share spoils at FNB Girls Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77103\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77103\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/250704-u18-girls-week-champions-wp-400x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: SA Rugby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Western Province edged the Golden Lions in the final match of the FNB U18 Girls Week while Border Country Districts snatched a late draw against the Blue Bulls in the last round of the FNB U16 Girls Week at Queens High School in Johannesburg on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>WP and the Bulls claimed wins on Friday to finish the U18 Girls Week unbeaten, while Eastern Province, the Limpopo Blue Bulls, South Western Districts, the Pumas, Border and KwaZulu-Natal secured third-round victories to end their campaigns on a high.<\/p>\n<p>WP got off to a slow start in the final match against the Lions, but cracked into gear after half-time. The girls from the Cape scored five unanswered tries and 31 points in the second stanza, with flyhalf Nuha Levy contributing a try as well as three conversions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, No 8 Amanda Seokotsa scored a hat-trick in the Limpopo Blue Bulls\u2019 31-15 win over the Griffons, while loosehead prop Jessica Ejeleonu touched down three times for the Valke in the East Rand outfit\u2019s 27-25 loss to the Pumas.<\/p>\n<p>In the final round of the U16 Girls Week, the Lions beat WP 17-7 to finish their campaign with three consecutive wins.<\/p>\n<p>Border Country Districts drew 12-12 with the Bulls in the last game of the tournament, with the Eastern Cape side ending their campaign unbeaten.<\/p>\n<p>The girls from Border CD led 7-0 at the break, before the Bulls hit back with two tries after half-time. Just as the game was slipping away, loosehead prop Endinako Fetumane crossed the line for Border, ensuring that her side came away with a draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FNB U18 Girls Week day three results (Friday, 4 July 2025):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EP 12 (5) Zimbabwe 0 (0)<br \/>\nGriffons 15 (0) Limpopo Blue Bulls 31 (12)<br \/>\nLeopards 12 (12) SWD 22 (0)<br \/>\nValke 25 (15) Pumas 27 (0)<br \/>\nGriquas 0 (0) Border 41 (12)<br \/>\nBlue Bulls 19 (12) Boland 12 (0)<br \/>\nFree State 0 (0) KwaZulu-Natal 38 (17)<br \/>\nWP 31 (0) Golden Lions 5 (5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0FNB U16 Girls Week day three results (Friday, 4 July 2025):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free State 0 (0) Zimbabwe 5 (0)<br \/>\nGriquas 0 (0) Griffons 17 (5)<br \/>\nBorder 17 (12) Pumas 7 (0)<br \/>\nSWD 20 (10) Limpopo Blue Bulls 27 (0)Valke 0 (0)<br \/>\nGolden Lions Invitational XV 20 (10)<br \/>\nLeopards 0 (0) KwaZulu-Natal 38 (24)<br \/>\nGolden Lions 17 (12) WP 7 (0)<br \/>\nBoland 7 (0) EP 13 (13)<br \/>\nBorder Country Districts 12 (7) Blue Bulls 12 (0)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Province edged the Golden Lions in the final match of the FNB U18 Girls Week while Border Country Districts snatched a late draw against the Blue Bulls in the last round of the FNB U16 Girls Week at Queens High School in Johannesburg on Friday. WP and the Bulls claimed wins on Friday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77102","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\/77102","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}