{"id":7993,"date":"2018-04-04T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/grey-college-prove-too-strong-for-christchurch-boys-high\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:32:18","slug":"grey-college-prove-too-strong-for-christchurch-boys-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=7993","title":{"rendered":"Grey College prove too strong for Christchurch Boys&#8217; High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7992\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NewsGZanderduPlessis.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"412\" alt=\"NewsGZanderduPlessis\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/>If there is one thing that you don&rsquo;t do against the first rugby team of Grey College, then it is challenging before a rugby game. Not even Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High challenging them with their traditional haka proofed futile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grey College was impressive in their 66-28 victory over Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High. The team from Bloemfontein started with a bang and kept the ball from the visitors from the Land of the Long White Cloud and managed to quickly build up a 26-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Flanker De Wet Marais was devastating with his bullocking runs and he completed a hat-trick. Marais played lock for Grey College during the 2017 season but could be a strong contender for a place in the SA Schools team of 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High must be commended that they never gave up and managed to fight back to trail by only 45-21 at the break. Their flyhalf, Cullen Moody, showed that he has a trusty boot and with his distribution kept his backlines attack sharp throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fullback, Ryan Barnes, got speed to burn and centre George Harding is a strong runner with the ball in hand. Harding scored a well-deserved try for his hard work in the midfield. Moody also scored after slicing through Grey College&rsquo;s defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the highlights of the match was the first try of winger Ian Small-Smith for Grey College. His outside centre, Wyclef Vlitoor, put a grubber through which Small-Smith regathered thanks to his pace. He is the brother of Cheetahs utility back, William Small-Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vlitoor also had an excellent match and kept the visitors from Christchurch guessing throughout. Two intercept tries to finish of the game by Vlitoor and Werner Gouws stretched the final score a bit further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grey College scrumhalf, Ross Braude, must also get a pat on the back for his performance in during the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Grey College 66 (45) &ndash;<\/strong> Tries: De Wet Marais (3), Ian Small-Smith (2), Wyclef Vlitoor (2), Franco Smith, Werner Gouws, George Cronj&eacute;. Conversion: Zander du Plessis (8). <strong>Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High 28 (21) &ndash;<\/strong> Try: George Harding, Cullen Moody, Ryan Barnes, Corbin Harding. Conversion: Moody (4).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that you don&rsquo;t do against the first rugby team of Grey College, then it is challenging before a rugby game. Not even Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High challenging them with their traditional haka proofed futile. Grey College was impressive in their 66-28 victory over Christchurch Boys&rsquo; High. The team from Bloemfontein started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","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\/7993","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=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}