{"id":78008,"date":"2025-07-25T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=78008"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:30:52","slug":"confident-paarl-boys-high-tackles-sacs-in-king-price-derby-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=78008","title":{"rendered":"Confident Paarl Boys’ High tackles SACS in King Price Derby Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paarl Boys’ High has run in plenty of tries in a very strong 2025 season. Photo: Frans Lombard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paarl Boys’ High<\/strong> has produced a strong season, suffering only one defeat in their 13 games, a narrow 26-28 setback at Oakdale Landbou<\/strong> in April. They’ll be heavily favoured to see off SACS <\/strong>on Saturday in a King Price Derby Series<\/strong> clash.<\/p>\n

Catch all the action live on SuperSport Schools<\/a> (www.supersportschools.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It hasn’t been the best of seasons for the Cape Town school, but they’ve put up some strong performances against Boishaai <\/strong><\/em>in the recent past, including a hard-fought 12-20 loss at home last year.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game kicks off at 12:45 at the Buco Brug Street Stadium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Paarl Boys’ High boasts a powerhouse pack, led by SA Schools’ prop Jordan Jooste<\/strong>, who specialises in dismantling opposition scrums, while also making a bone-crunching impact with his carries.<\/p>\n

SACS captain and flanker Siphe Mbungendlu<\/strong> is no stranger to physicality himself. His side will look to him for inspiration in the set-piece and breakdown battles.<\/p>\n

Physicality, though, is one of Boishaai’s calling cards, but they’re not one-dimensional. Their backs offer an additional strength in their speed of play, and inside centre Iwan<\/strong> Jordaan<\/strong>, doesn’t only collect points from the kicking tee. He creates tries with the ball in hand.<\/p>\n

The SACS backs will have to be highly alert and present good line speed on defence. If they give the Boishaai backs even a sniff of space, they will be punished for it.<\/p>\n

The SACS backline has not gelled as well as they usually do this season. However, they have had their moments and stunned opposition defences with their creativity<\/p>\n

Fullback Quewinn Lackay<\/strong> and outside centre Mikey Skeeles<\/strong> are two of their key players and often find ways to break through the opposition’s defensive lines. Paarl Boys’ High, though, poses a hardy challenge with their rush defence.<\/p>\n

The home side will fancy their chances of adding another win to an impressive record. Whatever happens, though, a fierce battle and entertaining rugby should light up this age-old Western Cape rivalry.<\/p>\n

TEAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paarl Boys’ High vs SACS at 12:45 in Paarl<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paarl Boys’ High (likely):<\/strong> 15 Mark Grindlay, 14 Jeneal Davids, 13 Tristan Joubert, 12 Iwan Jordaan, 11 Cole Moultrie, 10 Francois van der Merwe, 9 Liam de Villiers, 8 Steph van der Merwe (captain), 7 Kobus Wilken, 6 Wege van Zyl, 5 Jayden Joubert, 4 Gershom Pieters, 3 Cruz Davey, 2 Tommy Muller, 1 Jordan Jooste.<\/p>\n

SACS:<\/strong> 15 Quewinn Lackay, 14 Josh Gorgens, 13 Mikey Skeeles, 12 Daniel Grant, 11 Imtiaz Abrahams, 10 Robert Boyes, 9 Matt Forbes, 8 Thando Sithole, 7 Harrison Bell, 6 Siphe Mbungendlu (captain), 5 Cameron Hirst, 4 Reuben De Klerk, 3 Qiraan Hermans, 2 Sango Zangqa, 1 Qawe Sawuka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paarl Boys’ High has produced a strong season, suffering only one defeat in their 13 games, a narrow 26-28 setback at Oakdale Landbou in April. They’ll be heavily favoured to see off SACS on Saturday in a King Price Derby Series clash. Catch all the action live on SuperSport Schools (www.supersportschools.com). It hasn’t been the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":69420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78008","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\/78008","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=78008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}