{"id":86044,"date":"2025-11-02T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=86044"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:14:39","slug":"boishaai-crowned-boland-switch-schools-sa20-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=86044","title":{"rendered":"Boishaai crowned Boland Switch Schools SA20 champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86046\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86046\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Boishaai-team-photo-Boland-SA20-final-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After an emphatic win, Boishaai will be focused on progressing even further than being the Boland champions of the Switch Schools SA20 competition. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paarlboyshighschool?igsh=MWFubnRoYmNycThoMA==\"><strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High on Instagram.<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The venue was <strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium<\/strong>, in Stellenbosch, but the finalists in the <strong>Boland<\/strong> region&#8217;s <strong>Switch Schools SA20 Volume Two <\/strong>final on Saturday were the traditional rivals,<strong> Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> and <strong>Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When the toss went their way, <em><strong>Boishaai<\/strong><\/em> chose to field and were excellent with the ball, limiting <em><strong>Gimmies<\/strong><\/em> to just 112\/7.<\/p>\n<p>They followed up with an aggressive batting performance and powered their way to a one-sided 10-wicket victory.<\/p>\n<p>Opener <strong>Wian Munnik<\/strong> delivered a solid 26 runs off 40 balls for Gimmies, but support from his fellow top and middle order batsmen was sparse.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the innings, <strong>Waldus de Jager<\/strong> bludgeoned four fours in an undefeated 29 off 27, but Gim was restricted to only 5.6 runs per over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reese Peterson<\/strong> was clinical with the ball, capturing 3\/23 in four overs, while <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/boland-squad-for-khaya-majola-week-announced\/\"><strong>Aden Batt, who made the Boland team for the Khaya Majola Week,<\/strong><\/a> showed why he cracked the provincial nod with a return of 2\/18 from four overs.<\/p>\n<p>Openers <strong>AB Jacob<\/strong>s and <strong>Neil Louw<\/strong>, then, made light work of the modest victory target, sharing an unbroken partnership of 117 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs was ruthless, hammering six fours and nine sixes in a rapid 89 from just 41 balls. With Jacobs firing, Louw held down his end, finishing with a more measured 24 not out off of 20 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>When Boishaai sealed a dominant victory, they had used up just over half the balls available to them in their run chase, charging over the line with 59 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised Scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paarl Gimnasium 112\/7<\/strong> (Waldus de Jager 29*, Wian Munnik 26; Reese Peterson 3\/23, Aden Batt 2\/18); <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High 117\/0<\/strong> (AB Jacobs 89*, Neil Louw 24*). <strong>Boishaai won by 10 wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venue was Paul Roos Gimnasium, in Stellenbosch, but the finalists in the Boland region&#8217;s Switch Schools SA20 Volume Two final on Saturday were the traditional rivals, Paarl Boys&#8217; High and Paarl Gimnasium. When the toss went their way, Boishaai chose to field and were excellent with the ball, limiting Gimmies to just 112\/7. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":86046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86044","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\/86044","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=86044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}