{"id":78489,"date":"2025-07-29T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=78489"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:54:58","slug":"long-range-tries-lift-dhs-to-win-at-jeppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=78489","title":{"rendered":"Long-range tries lift DHS to win at Jeppe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeppe fared well in the battle for territory, but DHS scored three of their four tries from long-range to score a 24-10 win on Collard Field. Photo: Jeppe High School for Boys on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2023, Durban High School<\/strong> (DHS) lost a nailbiter on the Collard Field<\/strong>, in Johannesburg, going down 36-39 to Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong>. In 2024, on Van Heerden’s Field<\/strong>, in Durban, they beat Jeppe 24-20. On Saturday, the Horseflies<\/strong> <\/em>returned to Johannesburg and claimed a 24-10 victory.<\/p>\n

With the win, DHS improved their record in 2025 to 13 wins and only two defeats, both against unbeaten teams, Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong> and Westville Boys’ High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Very quietly, School<\/strong> <\/em>has produced a superb follow-up to their outstanding 2024 season, which, interestingly, concluded with the same 13 wins and two losses record. Their 2025 season is not yet done, however. They visit Northwood<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

When the teams met in Durban last year, Jeppe entered the game averaging 33 points a match while DHS had surrendered only eight a contest. It finished in the middle ground in favour of coach Peter Engeldow<\/strong>‘s boys. On Saturday, Jeppe repeated their 24-point output, but halved Jeppe’s output.<\/p>\n

The visitors made a fine start to their quest for back-to-back wins over the Zebras<\/strong><\/em>, with their first points coming from a typically well-practiced and well-executed move. From a lineout five metres out, they hit the ball up through their forwards before feeding their bowling ball inside centre, Zingce Simka<\/strong>, with a flat, long pass.<\/p>\n

Jeppe knew what was coming, but not even three tacklers were able to keep the powerhouse midfielder out. It wasn’t a difficult conversion, but Jordan van Wyk<\/strong> pinged his kick off the left upright, leaving the score at 5-0.<\/p>\n

From the kick-off, it became something of a tactical kicking battle, with Jeppe playing the game down near the DHS 22, but when the home side bobbled a pass Simka picked up the ball and released left-wing Zenkosi Mthiyane<\/strong>. Hitting the afterburners, he raced down the left-hand touchline for a thrilling 70-metre try in the left-hand corner.<\/p>\n

Van Wyk was narrowly wide from the touchline, but School<\/strong><\/em> could hardly have hoped for a better start, up 10-0 in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n

In the absence of SA Schools A prop, Andr\u00e9 Poulton<\/strong>, Jeppe came ever so close to surrendering another try when they were shoved off their own put-in, just five metres from their try line. They survived, but DHS forwards’ coach Ronnie Uys<\/strong> must have loved what he saw.<\/p>\n

To their credit, Jeppe rebounded, worked their way downfield, and put DHS under sustained pressure. The visitors had a narrow escape when an attempted clearance was charged down, but the in-goal area on Collard Field is small and the ball richocheted out of the field of play.<\/p>\n

After DHS’s bright start, Jeppe had begun to boss the territorial battle. However, a decision to try a set piece move rather than kick to touch when they won a penalty only 10 metres from the DHS try line appeared peculiar. The end result was the visitors winning a penalty after effectively contesting a ruck.<\/p>\n

Then, when DHS spilled a ball inside the Jeppe 22, a searing counterattack by the home side almost finished with a try, but their final pass, flat to a charging 8th-man Mihle Dyakala<\/strong> was forward.<\/p>\n

Right before the halftime whistle, Jeppe’s industry and efforts were rewarded when captain, scrumhalf Talent Sithole<\/strong>, wriggled through the slightest of gaps to dive over from close range. Nehemia Hollenbach<\/strong> nailed the conversion, leaving only three points separating the sides after a fascinating first half of thrust and counter-thrust.<\/p>\n

Coach Drikus Venter<\/strong>‘s players then carried the momentum they had enjoyed late in the first half into the second stanza and played a lot of rugby in the DHS half without managing to truly penetrate the rugged defence of the Durban boys.<\/p>\n

With 17 minutes of the second half played, a massive clearance kick by flyhalf Jordan van Wyk into the Jeppe 22 was kicked into touch, but it put DHS on Jeppe’s halfway line with possession for the lineout. A pinpoint throw-in to the back enabled DHS to get a rolling maul moving. Then, a couple of dummy runners and two accurate long passes played centre Nathan Aneke<\/strong> into an outside gap.<\/p>\n

Aneke, the lightning to his midfield partner Zingce Simka’s thunder, received the ball 45 metres out, pinned his ears back and rounded the Jeppe defence for a spectacular score. It was a gut punch for Sithole and company after they had played so much of the second half in the visitors’ half.<\/p>\n

Fullback Cilermo Carolus<\/strong> took over the kicking duties and slotted the kick to, once again, open up a 10-point lead at 17-7.<\/p>\n

DHS turned to a slow poison approach in the last 10 minutes, taking it to Jeppe with their pack driving the ball up, drawing the hosts’ defenders in to make strength-sapping tackle after strength-sapping tackle. Jeppe struggled to exit their 22. Eventually, though, they won a penalty, but when their kick for touch missed the mark, they were made to pay.<\/p>\n

DHS quickly shifted play from the left-hand touchline back infield and to the right flank. It took only two passes, and Richard Gyamfi<\/strong> saw space in front of him. He raced through from 47 metres out for another five-pointer. Carolus, then, rubbed salt in the Jeppe wound by converting from the touchline.<\/p>\n

The ability of DHS to strike from long-range was a feature of the clash. The accuracy of the visitors’ cut-out passes, shifting the ball wide at speed, left Jeppe exposed. If that was something that School had identified in the lead-up to the game – and knowing coach Peter Engeldow’s excellence at analysis, it likely was – they executed what they needed to do extremely well.<\/p>\n

Jeppe, as always, kept fighting to the final whistle and it brought them the final say in the game when flyhalf Hollenbach snapped over a drop kick in the final minute. The day, though, belonged to DHS.<\/p>\n

Scorers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeppe 10 (7) – <\/strong>Try: Talent Sithole; Conversion: Nehemia Hollenbach; Dropped goal: Nehemia Hollenbach. DHS 24 (10) –\u00a0<\/strong>Tries: Zingce Simka, Zenkosi Mthiyane, Nathan Aneke, Richard Gyamfi; Conversions: Cilermo Carolus (2).<\/p>\n

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

u 19 –<\/strong> Jeppe I 20 DHS I 24; Jeppe II 38 DHS II 33; Jeppe III 14 DHS III 41; Jeppe IV 7 DHS IV 29; Jeppe V 0 DHS V 26; Jeppe VI 15 DHS VI 22<\/p>\n

u16 –<\/strong> Jeppe A 35 DHS A 14; Jeppe B 7 DHS B 46; Jeppe C 14 DHS C 24; Jeppe D 10 DHS D 8; Jeppe E 21 DHS E 13<\/p>\n

u15 –<\/strong> Jeppe A 22 DHS A 26; Jeppe B 27 DHS B 24; Jeppe C; Jeppe D 31 DHS D 20; Jeppe E 40 DHS E 17<\/p>\n

u14 –<\/strong> Jeppe A 0 DHS A 15; Jeppe B 9 DHS B 36; Jeppe C 8 DHS C 12; Jeppe D 29 DHS D 32; Jeppe E 20 DHS E 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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