{"id":86673,"date":"2025-11-16T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=86673"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:04:38","slug":"holders-69-sends-st-andrews-college-into-switch-schools-sa20-ep-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=86673","title":{"rendered":"Holder’s 69 sends St Andrew’s College into Switch Schools SA20 EP final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Connor Holder, who enjoyed a productive day with the bat, ushered St Andrew’s College into the Eastern Province final of the Schools SA20 with a sparkling half-century. Photo: Supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Connor Holder<\/strong> scored a brilliant half-century to set St Andrew’s College<\/strong> up for a 37-run win over Pearson<\/strong> in their Switch Schools SA20 \u2013 Volume Two<\/strong> contest at Pearson on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The victory earned St Andrew’s a berth in the final of the Eastern Province<\/strong> leg of the nationwide tournament against Grey High<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rhys Wiblin,<\/strong> the St Andrew’s captain, won the toss and elected to bat first. His team turned that decision into a good one by racing to 175\/6 in their 20 overs. Then, they restricted Pearson to 138\/9 in reply.<\/p>\n

Pearson must have thought they were in business when they dismissed Thomas Lake<\/strong> in the third over of the contest, with the St Andrew’s opener mustering only two runs in a 21-run opening stand with Wiblin.<\/p>\n

What the home side had not counted on was the impact of Lake’s dismissal, which resulted in St Andrew\u2019s College’s most in-form players joining forces.\u00a0Wiblin and Holder entered the contest high in confidence, thanks to their unbeaten 63-run second-wicket partnership in a victory over Nico Malan<\/strong> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Nico Malan\u2019s total of 99 all out in 16.3 overs didn’t present St Andrew’s with a difficult challenge. They chased it down with ease, winning by nine wickets in 12.3 overs, with Holder finishing unbeaten on 38, while Wiblin was on 39 not out.<\/p>\n

Against Pearson, they picked up from where they left off and constructed a match-winning 114-run second-wicket partnership off 71 balls. Holder was the aggressor, registering a strike rate of 146, while Wiblin rolled along at 129.7.<\/p>\n

Holder’s outstanding 69 came off only 47 balls and included seven fours and three sixes. Wiblin, meanwhile, narrowly missed out on a half-century. He was dismissed for 48 off 37 after striking six fours and a six.<\/p>\n

Ben Scharges<\/strong>, who replaced Wiblin, provided the St Andrew’s innings with a late a flourish and ended with an unbeaten 22 off 15.<\/p>\n

Jean Schultz<\/strong> was the best of the Pearson bowlers, picking up 2\/21.<\/p>\n

Pearson’s run chase began solidly, with a sound opening stand of 65 off 57 balls between Ruan Coetzee<\/strong> and Cale Price<\/strong>. However, a double strike from Thomas Bussiahn in the 10th over, which got rid of both batsmen within the space of three balls, set Pearson on the back foot.<\/p>\n

Jean Schultz and Callum Armstrong<\/strong> fought back for Pearson, advancing the total by 46 runs from 35 balls before St Andrew’s grabbed three wickets in five balls.<\/p>\n

Callum Taggart<\/strong> emulated Bussiahn and delivered a double blow, dismissing Schultz and Armstrong with the fourth and sixth deliveries of the 16th over, before Oli Whitaker<\/strong> accounted for Jude Septoo in the next over.<\/p>\n

Taggart, who was the bowler in the contest, claimed his third wicket in the 18th over, on his way to 3\/31 from his three overs.<\/p>\n

Thomas Bussiahn and Oli Whitaker both claimed two wickets apiece, with Whitaker snapping up 2\/19 from four and Bussiahn returning 2\/23 from his four.<\/p>\n

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

St Andrew’s College 175\/6<\/strong> (Connor Holder 69, Rhys Wiblin 48, Ben Scharges 22*; Jean Schults 2\/21, Jayden Ward 1\/27, Callum Armstrong 1\/29). Pearson High 138\/9<\/strong> (Ruan Coetzee 30, Cale Price 29, Jean Schultz 27; Callum Taggart 3\/31, Oli Whitaker 2\/19, Thomas Bussiahn 2\/23). St Andrew’s won by 37 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connor Holder scored a brilliant half-century to set St Andrew’s College up for a 37-run win over Pearson in their Switch Schools SA20 \u2013 Volume Two contest at Pearson on Saturday afternoon. The victory earned St Andrew’s a berth in the final of the Eastern Province leg of the nationwide tournament against Grey High. Rhys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":86674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86673","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\/86673","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}