{"id":82365,"date":"2025-09-06T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=82365"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:16:31","slug":"st-johns-st-stithians-set-the-pace-at-st-albans-beach-water-polo-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=82365","title":{"rendered":"St John’s, St Stithians set the pace at St Alban’s Beach Water Polo Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The opening day of the 3rd Annual Beach Water Polo Tournament<\/strong> got underway at St Alban’s College<\/strong>, in Pretoria, on Friday. The event, which features eight men’s clubs’ teams, and 14 open age group schools’ teams, runs through until Sunday.<\/p>\n

In Pool A, a familiar powerhouse, St John’s College<\/strong>, made a commanding start to their campaign, overpowering Parktown Boys’ High<\/strong> 19\u20130 before cruising to an 11-1 defeat of the Zimbabwean side, Christian Brothers College (CBC) Bulawayo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, CBC had opened their challenge with an impressive 12-5 win over St Peter’s College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

St Peter’s, though, bounced back in style, showing strong character in a determined 11-6 win over Parktown Boys’ High.<\/p>\n

Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> (Affies<\/strong><\/em>) played three tough matches and came away with two inspiring victories, defeating St Alban’s 8-5 and King Edward VII (KES)<\/strong> 7-3 before coming up short against St John’s, who improved their record to three from three with an 8-5 win.<\/p>\n

After going down to Affies, St Alban’s showed resilience when they outlasted KES 6\u20135 in a nail-biter. That was followed by a 14-3 dismantling of Parktown. KES suffered two hard-fought defeats, but they came out on the right side of another closely contested clash, scoring an 8-5 win over CBC Bulawayo.<\/p>\n

In Pool B, St Stithians College<\/strong> stamped their authority and staked their claim as the team to beat by going three for three. In their opener, a key clash against St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong>, Saints<\/strong> <\/em>came away with a 7-4 win.<\/p>\n

They enjoyed a routine 12-4 victory over the St Alban\u2019s 2nd team before wrapping up their assignments with a 9-5 win over Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong> to finish the day comfortably on top of the group standings.<\/p>\n

Jeppe ended the day in second spot, with Pretoria Boys High <\/strong>in third. Boys High beat the St John’s College 2nd team 6\u20132, but lost a nail-biter to St David’s, who snatched an 8-7 win in a tense, closely fought encounter. That victory left the Sandton school in fourth place after Friday’s action.<\/p>\n

St Benedict’s College<\/strong> picked up a narrow 5\u20134 win over the St Alban’s 2nd team but came up short in their other fixtures.<\/p>\n

POOLS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pool A<\/strong>
\nSt John\u2019s College 1st team
\nAfrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool
\nSt Alban\u2019s College 1st team
\nKing Edward VII School
\nSt Peter\u2019s College
\nParktown Boys High School
\nChristian Brothers College Zimbabwe<\/p>\n

Pool B<\/strong>
\nSt Stithians College
\nJeppe High School for Boys
\nSt David\u2019s Marist Inanda
\nPretoria Boys High School
\nSt Benedict\u2019s College
\nSt John\u2019s College 2nd Team
\nSt Alban\u2019s College 2nd team<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

POOL A
\n<\/strong>Affies 8-5 St Alban’s
\nSt Peter\u2019s 5-12 CBC Bulawayo
\nParktown 0-19 St John’s
\nAffies 7-3 KES
\nCBC Bulawayo 1-11 St John’s
\nSt Peter’s 11-6 Parktown
\nSt John’s 8-5 Affies
\nSt Alban’s 6-5 KES
\nSt Alban’s 14-3 Parktown
\nCBC Bulawayo 5-8 KES<\/p>\n

POOL B
\n<\/strong>St David’s 8-7 Pretoria Boys High
\nSt Alban’s 2nd<\/span>\u00a0team 4-5 St Benedict’s
\nSt Stithians 7-4 St David’s
\nJeppe 6-0 St John\u2019s 2nd\u00a0team
\nSt Alban’s 2nd team\u00a04-12 St Stithians
\nSt Benedict’s 2-6 Jeppe
\nPretoria Boys High 6-2 St John’s 2nd <\/span>team
\nSt Stithians 9-5 Jeppe
\nSt John’s 2nd team 7-4 St Benedict’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opening day of the 3rd Annual Beach Water Polo Tournament got underway at St Alban’s College, in Pretoria, on Friday. The event, which features eight men’s clubs’ teams, and 14 open age group schools’ teams, runs through until Sunday. In Pool A, a familiar powerhouse, St John’s College, made a commanding start to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":61481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82365","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\/82365","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}