{"id":79928,"date":"2025-08-10T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=79928"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:24:05","slug":"herschel-and-affies-set-to-lock-horns-for-challengers-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=79928","title":{"rendered":"Herschel and Affies set to lock horns for Challengers’ Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Herschel and Affies met in the group stages of the Challengers’ Cup, with Herschel won that fixture 1-0. Photo: Nico de Wit<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Herschel Girls School<\/strong> continued their fine form at the Challengers’ Cup\u00a0on Saturday and booked themselves a place in the final of the tournament, at La Rochelle Girls’ High<\/strong>, in Paarl.<\/p>\n

The Cape Town school defeated St Mary\u2019s Waverley<\/strong> 2-0 in the semifinals, setting up a title game against Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool<\/strong> (Affies) <\/strong>at 11:20 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Catch all the playoff action LIVE on the SuperSport Schools App.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The journey to the title-deciding clash was similar for both sides, with both dominating during the group stage while playing attractive hockey and scoring numerous goals.<\/p>\n

They were both in Pool B<\/strong>, which Herschel topped after four wins in five matches, while Affies picked up three wins and 10 points to occupy second place.<\/p>\n

In the semifinals, they faced St Mary\u2019s and Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein <\/strong>respectively, the top two teams from Pool A<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Herschel made a cracking start in their showdown with St Mary’s and opened the scoring with a well-worked field goal, netted by Anna Sherren<\/strong>, after only six minutes.<\/p>\n

It was evenly contested after that, and it took Herschel another 32 minutes before they doubled their lead through Katie Featherstone<\/strong>, who converted from a short corner opportunity.<\/p>\n

St Mary’s, the 2024 runner-up, gave it all they had but were kept out by Herschel’s stubborn defence.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s final will be Herschel’s second of the season. They reached the final of the Belgotex Sport Girls Challenge<\/a><\/strong> in May but were beaten on penalties by Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Affies faced a familiar Pretoria rival when they met Garsies<\/strong><\/em> in the semi-finals. When the teams met a week ago in the\u00a0Pullen Cup final<\/a><\/strong>, in Johannesburg, Affies scored a 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n

It was much closer on Saturday, however, and the contest went down to the wire. Mia Pretorius<\/strong> scored early for Affies before Daniella Grobbelaar<\/strong> equalised in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n

After regulation time ended at 1-1, a penalty shootout was required to separate the sides. Affies, who placed fourth in 2024, held their nerve and secured a slim 1-0 win to book their place in the final.<\/p>\n

Day 3 | Results \u2013 Group stage playoffs\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parel Vallei (2) 1-1 (1) Outeniqua
\nDurban Girls’ College 3-0 Fairmont
\nHerschel 2-0 St Mary’s Waverley
\nRustenburg Girls’ High 1-0 Springfield
\nAffies (1) 1-1 (0) Garsfontein
\nSt Cyprian’s School (1) 1-1 (0) Paarl Girls’ High<\/p>\n

Day 4 | Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n

08:00 – Springfield vs Paarl Girls (11th\/12th playoff)
\n09:00 – Parel Vallei vs Durban Girls College (5th\/6th playoff)
\n09:10 – Rustenburg Girls vs St Cyprian’s School (9th\/10th playoff) @Paarl Girls’ High
\n10:10 – St Mary’s Waverley vs Garsfontein (3rd\/4th playoff)
\n10:20 – Outeniqua vs Fairmont High (7th\/8th playoff) @Paarl Girls’ High
\n11:20 – Herschel vs Affies (Final)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Herschel Girls School continued their fine form at the Challengers’ Cup\u00a0on Saturday and booked themselves a place in the final of the tournament, at La Rochelle Girls’ High, in Paarl. The Cape Town school defeated St Mary\u2019s Waverley 2-0 in the semifinals, setting up a title game against Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool (Affies) at 11:20 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79928","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\/79928","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}