{"id":7913,"date":"2017-10-23T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/fixtures-for-the-craven-week-of-2018-announced\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:39:59","slug":"fixtures-for-the-craven-week-of-2018-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Fixtures for the Craven Week of 2018 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7699\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Coca-Cola_Craven_Week.png\" alt=\"Coca Cola Craven Week\" width=\"290\" height=\"211\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Coca-Cola_Craven_Week.png 418w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Coca-Cola_Craven_Week-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>The unofficial champions of the Coca-Cola Craven Week, the Golden Lions, will start off their campaign at next year edition of the tournament in Paarl against Eastern Province. The Lions was crowned unofficial champions earlier this year by defeating KwaZulu-Natal by 45-18 in the main match at St Stithians College in Johannesburg.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The match between the Lions and Eastern Province will be the main curtain raiser for the main match of the opening day on Paarl Boys&#8217; High&#8217;s main field. Boishaai will celebrate it 150th anniversary next year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hosts of next year&#8217;s tournament, Western Province, will meet the Pumas in the main match of the opening day.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Free State will lock horns with the Blue Bulls in their first match at the tournament. The Free State were ranked the second best team after the tournament in the City of Gold, while the Bulls was ranked eigth for their dismal performance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KwaZulu-Natal will face South Western Districts in their first match of the tournament on the second day in Paarl.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The fixtures:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Day 1&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Griffons vs Blue Bulls XV<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Border vs Limpopo Blue Bulls<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Golden Lions vs Eastern Province<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OPENING CEREMONY<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Western Province vs Pumas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Day 2&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Golden Lions XV vs Western Province XV&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Valke vs Leopards<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boland vs Griqualand West<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KwaZulu-Natal vs South Western Districts<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Free State vs Blue Bulls<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unofficial champions of the Coca-Cola Craven Week, the Golden Lions, will start off their campaign at next year edition of the tournament in Paarl against Eastern Province. The Lions was crowned unofficial champions earlier this year by defeating KwaZulu-Natal by 45-18 in the main match at St Stithians College in Johannesburg.&nbsp; The match between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","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\/7913","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}