{"id":77356,"date":"2025-07-11T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77356"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:27:42","slug":"eastern-province-rolls-as-competition-for-semi-final-spots-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77356","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Province rolls as competition for semi-final spots intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eastern Province continued their domination of Pool A on day three of the u16 SASHOC National Week, defeating Western Province A 2-0. Photo: TeamPhotoSA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eastern Province (EP)<\/strong>, the defending champions, continued on their merry, winning way on Thursday, day three of the u16 Girls’ SASHOC National Tournament<\/strong>, at St Anne’s DSG<\/strong>, in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

The picked up a further three points and enhanced their flawless run with a 2-0 win over a determined Western Province A<\/strong> side<\/p>\n

Iminathi Rungqu<\/strong> and Lucy Holderness<\/strong>, who have both consistent and influential for EP since the tournament started, sealed a crucial victory for coach Ignatius Malgraff<\/strong>‘s side.<\/p>\n

That win leaves EP with a comfortable five-point lead at the top of the Pool A standings, and a positive goal difference of 15 goals from only four matches. They have already secured a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Western Province A<\/strong>, after their setback against Eastern Province A, returned guns blazing in their second match of the day and took out their frustrations on Eastern Gauteng<\/strong>, powering their way to a one-sided 6-0 victory.<\/p>\n

That win lifted Province’s record to two wins, a draw, and the loss to EP from their four games – good enough for second place in Pool A, with a match against Southern Gauteng B<\/strong> awaiting them in their last group stage assignment.<\/p>\n

Western Province A is on seven points, as is Southern Gauteng A<\/strong>, who also made a strong statement with a 4-1 win over Eastern Gauteng A<\/strong> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Province, though, has a better goal difference by a single goal. Southerns, in their final pool clash, face a tough challenge, however, taking on the high-flying Eastern Province.<\/p>\n

Southern Free State A<\/strong> romped to their first win in style, outplaying Southern Gauteng B 4\u20130, thanks to goals from Logan Williams<\/strong>, Tshiamo Sizane<\/strong>, Illana De Gouveia<\/strong>, and Zene Beukes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In Pool B, in a showdown of unbeaten teams, KZN Coastal A<\/strong> outplayed Boland A<\/strong>, scoring a commanding 3-0 win.<\/p>\n

Charley-Rose Boyall<\/strong> was instrumental in the victory, scoring twice, with Asanele Zuma<\/strong> continuing her strong goal scoring form by adding another goal to take her tally to three.<\/p>\n

EP’s Lucy Holderness<\/strong> leads the way on the goal scoring chart with five goals, while Boyall, Alanda Rademeyer <\/strong>(Boland A), and Iminathi Rungqu have all netted four times.<\/p>\n

Northern Gauteng A<\/strong>, with goals from Rearabetsoe Masepe<\/strong> and Lenique Vogel<\/strong>, scored a tight 2-1 win over KZN Coastal B<\/strong>, for whom Bella Roberts<\/strong> scored. With her goal, Vogel joined Zuma on three for the tournament thus far.<\/p>\n

That result leaves Northerns two points behind Boland A ahead of the last round of group stage matches. Boland A takes on KZN Inland A<\/strong> in their last pool game, while Northerns tackles the table-topping KZN Coastal A, who are all but certain of finishing in first place in Pool B.<\/p>\n

KZN Inland A were held to a goalless draw by Boland B<\/strong> on Thursday, which ended their chances of making the semi-finals. They play twice on Friday, which means they could bag six points, but they trail second placed Boland A by seven.<\/p>\n

DAY 3| RESULTS
\n<\/strong>
\nPOOL A<\/strong>
\nSouthern Gauteng A 4:<\/strong> Zuri Jimerson, Emily Quinton, Teegan Aronson, Erica Broskie. Eastern Gauteng A 1:<\/strong> Natalia Jardim.
\nEastern Province A 2:<\/strong> Iminathi Rungqu, Lucy Holderness. Western Province A 0<\/strong>.
\nEastern Gauteng A:<\/strong> 0. Western Province A:<\/strong> 6 Bea Van den Berg, Jamie Gall, Aisha Hendricks, Heather Kane, Sophia Luger, Sally Gitlin.
\nSouthern Gauteng B 0<\/strong>.\u00a0Southern Free State A 4:<\/strong> Logan Williams, Tshiamo Sizane, Illana De Gouveia, Zene Beukes.
\n
\nPOOL B<\/strong>
\nNorthern Gauteng A 2:<\/strong> Rearabetsoe Masepe, Lenique Vogel. KZN Coastal B 1:<\/strong> Bella Roberts.
\nBoland A 0<\/strong>. KZN Coastal A 3:<\/strong> Charley-Rose Boyall (X2), Asanele Zuma.
\nKZN Inland A<\/strong> 0<\/strong>. Boland B 0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eastern Province (EP), the defending champions, continued on their merry, winning way on Thursday, day three of the u16 Girls’ SASHOC National Tournament, at St Anne’s DSG, in KwaZulu-Natal. The picked up a further three points and enhanced their flawless run with a 2-0 win over a determined Western Province A side Iminathi Rungqu and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":77357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77356","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\/77356","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}