{"id":84271,"date":"2025-10-05T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=84271"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:14:52","slug":"st-andrews-schools-stubborn-fightback-overcomes-sacs-at-cape-schools-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=84271","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrew’s School’s stubborn fightback overcomes SACS at Cape Schools Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St Andrew’s School was full of smiles after an impressively resilient victory over SACS. Photo: St. Andrew’s School on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Andrew’s School vs SACS (unlimited overs, one-day, one-innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In their opening fixture of the Cape Schools Festival<\/strong>, the sole Free State<\/strong> outfit, St Andrew’s School<\/strong>, defeated their hosts, SACS<\/strong>, by 30 runs, in a one-innings, one-day, unlimited overs fixture.<\/p>\n

The visitors won the toss on the De Villiers Oval<\/strong> and chose to bat. Having armoured up to face the first delivery, Naud\u00e9<\/strong> Botha<\/strong> struck three fours and a six at the top of the order, making 22 from 22, but Ronan Meintjies<\/strong> had the visitors on the hop.<\/p>\n

The opening bowler had Saints <\/strong><\/em>wobbling on 14\/3 in the fourth over and went on to capture five of the first seven wickets to fall as the Bloemfontein boys clawed their way to 79\/7.<\/p>\n

Grov\u00e9 du Preez<\/strong>, in at seven, slowed the SACS’ assault, scoring a sturdy 39 off 89 to get the runs flowing at the back end of the innings. Schalk van Rensburg<\/strong>, batting ninth, played a crucial knock, making unbeaten 36 off 63, which included six fours and a six, helping St Andrew’s School to 162 all out.<\/p>\n

Meintjies<\/strong> sparkled for SACS, capturing 5\/29 in 12 overs, while Benjamin<\/strong> Blackburn<\/strong> also caused the visitors problems, securing 2\/35 in 13 overs.<\/p>\n

After his century against Palmerston North last Saturday, Jordan Berry<\/strong><\/a> continued the good work, contributing a solid 35 off 45 to the SACS’ run chase.<\/p>\n

Opener Luke Whitehead<\/strong> also aided their effort with 21 off 47, but the hosts lost four wickets for 19 runs in the middle order and lost momentum, ultimately being dismissed for 132.<\/p>\n

Andrew Sobiech<\/strong> led the St Andrew’s attack with a stunning 4\/44 from 15 overs, while FG Botha<\/strong>, who, unusually, missed out with the bat, snapped up 2\/31 from his eight overs of leg spin.<\/p>\n

Nikhil Sukraj<\/strong> brought a swift end to the contest, claiming two victims for no runs off just two deliveries.<\/p>\n

SCORES<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Andrew’s School 162\/10<\/strong> (Grov\u00e9 du Preez 39, Schalk van Rensburg 36*, Nikhil Sukraj 24, Naud\u00e9 Botha 22; Ronan Meintjies 5\/29, Benjamin Blackburn 2\/35); SACS 132\/10<\/strong> (Jordan Berry 35, Luke Whitehead 21; Andrew Sobiech 4\/44, Nikhil Sukraj 2\/0, FG Botha 2\/31).<\/p>\n

St. Andrew’s School won by 30 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Andrew’s School vs SACS (unlimited overs, one-day, one-innings) In their opening fixture of the Cape Schools Festival, the sole Free State outfit, St Andrew’s School, defeated their hosts, SACS, by 30 runs, in a one-innings, one-day, unlimited overs fixture. The visitors won the toss on the De Villiers Oval and chose to bat. Having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":84272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84271","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\/84271","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}