{"id":81587,"date":"2025-08-26T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=81587"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:12:42","slug":"koekemoer-leads-menlopark-to-win-waterkloof-steamrolls-pretoria-boys-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=81587","title":{"rendered":"Koekemoer leads Menlopark to win, Waterkloof steamrolls Pretoria Boys High"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CricketMorn\u00e9 Koekemoer<\/strong> played a crucial innings of 85 runs to guide Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<\/strong> to their first victory of the 2025 Titans Platinum A-League<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Read and relive all the 2025 Schools Cricket action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This season, the Platinum League boasts a cracking lineup of teams and matches. Menlopark, Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>, Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> (Affies)<\/strong> and Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein<\/strong>‘s Ysbere <\/strong><\/em>all possess serious firepower. A four-horse race for the Titans’ honours is not out of the question.<\/p>\n

Batting at four for the Parkies<\/strong><\/em>, Koekemoer laid the foundation in the middle order, playing the anchor role in his side’s 68-run victory over Prestige College<\/strong>, at the Prestige Oval<\/strong>, in Hammanskraal. His innings, which came off only 70 balls, allowed the rest of the lineup to bat around him.<\/p>\n

Firstly, he combined nicely with Luan Barnard<\/strong> (38) in a partnership of 89 runs and then he put on another 27 with young gun Jan-Willem Pienaar<\/strong> (32). Further useful contributions from Jacques de Villiers<\/strong> (28) and James Bronkhorst<\/strong> (24) took the visitors to a healthy 257\/9 from their 50 overs.<\/p>\n

Ditebogo Chauke<\/strong>, Prestige’s bowling spearhead, found a good rhythm and was rewarded with a return of 3\/39 from nine overs. Johan Bosch<\/strong> did the trick for Menlopark, snapping up 4\/22 to rip through Prestige College’s top order.<\/p>\n

Despite a hard-fought 60 from Omphile Maredi<\/strong>, who also contributed 2\/52 with the ball, Menlopark comfortably held the upper hand and eased to a 68-run victory.<\/p>\n

In Pretoria, at the Andr\u00e9 van der Walt Oval<\/strong>, Waterkloof’s AJ de Villiers<\/strong> notched a classy century as the defending champions overpowered Pretoria Boys High<\/strong>. As good opening batsmen do, De Villiers occupied the crease well. He spent 140 deliveries in the middle and struck 15 fours and two sixes in a masterful 124.<\/p>\n

‘Kloof<\/strong><\/em> captain and hard-hitting middle-order batsman, Riley Miller<\/strong>, made his presence felt, clubbing five sixes in his 75, which helped lift his side to 278\/6 from their 50 overs. Eduan Gottfried<\/strong> was the best of Boys High’s bowlers, claiming 3\/56 in eight overs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Boys High, their batsmen didn’t come close to replicating the efforts of the Waterkloof batsmen, which had plenty to do with Ricardo Crous<\/strong>. He undermined the PBHS innings by knocking over 4\/30.<\/p>\n

Three wicket hauls from Rivan Booysen (3\/10) and Jaco van der Walt (3\/21) meant Boys High never got going and they were dismissed for only 100, 178 runs shy of Waterkloof’s total.<\/p>\n

Summarised scorecards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark 257\/9 <\/strong>(Morn\u00e9 Koekemoer 85, Luan Lombard 38, Jan-Willem Pienaar 32, Jacques de Villiers 28, James Bronkhorst 24; Ditebogo Chauke 3\/39, Bongani Sithole 2\/35, Omphile Maredi 2\/52, Gift Motlhasedi 2\/40);\u00a0Prestige College 189\u00a0<\/strong>(Omphile Maredi 60, Lesedi Mabena 24, Mohau Mahlnagu 24; Johan Bosch 4\/22, Matt van der Westhuizen 2\/33, Jordan van Eck 2\/39).\u00a0Menlopark won by 68 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof 278\/6 <\/strong>(AJ de Villiers 124, Riley Miller 75, Johan Feuth 33, Extras 20; Eduan Gottfried 3\/56, Jaydon Knott-Craig 2\/47); Pretoria Boys High <\/strong>100\u00a0<\/strong>(Pieter Steyn 27, Timothy Gordon 21; Ricardo Crous 4\/30, Rivan Booysen 3\/10, Jaco van der Walt 3\/21).\u00a0Waterkloof won by 178 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morn\u00e9 Koekemoer played a crucial innings of 85 runs to guide Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark to their first victory of the 2025 Titans Platinum A-League on Saturday. Read and relive all the 2025 Schools Cricket action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com)\u00a0 This season, the Platinum League boasts a cracking lineup of teams and matches. Menlopark, Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81587","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\/81587","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}