{"id":8691,"date":"2019-04-18T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/pretoria-boys-high-on-top-in-opening-clash-of-kerf2019-against-kearsney\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:33:24","slug":"pretoria-boys-high-on-top-in-opening-clash-of-kerf2019-against-kearsney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8691","title":{"rendered":"Pretoria Boys&#8217; High on top in opening clash of KERF2019 against Kearsney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8690\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NewsGPretoriaBHS.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGPretoriaBHS\" width=\"370\" height=\"328\" \/>Kearsney College traditionally opens their Standard Bank Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival and this year, the 12th, it was against <strong>Pretoria Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>. Kearsney had the better of the first half, but it was all PBHS in the second half for a 27-11 win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After initially feeling out each other it was Pretoria who scored when wing <strong>Tim Glatthaar<\/strong> beat the cover defence to score in the corner for a five-point lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gradually the Kearsney forwards began dominating and after 17 minutes it was prop forward <strong>Bradley Taylor<\/strong> who opened their scoring with a try, after the forwards had advanced 15m with pick and go driving. The scores were level but Kearsney sneaked ahead following a penalty by scrumhalf Jordan Bamber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boys High rallied and exerted their own pressure which led to Glatthaar going over for his second try following broken play in the Kearsney red zone. It was easily converted by flyhalf Justin Cross. On the stroke of half-time, a penalty by Bamber narrowed the score to 11-12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second half saw a change with Pretoria exerting most of the pressure. Early in the half scrumhalf Jaden Collaros ran 20m through the defence to score and Cross\u2019 conversion saw Pretoria increasing their lead to 19-11. A long-range penalty by Cross increased it further to 22-11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aidan Bristow<\/strong>, captain and flank, scored the final try which was converted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pretoria Boys&#8217; High 27 &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Tim Glatthaar (2), Jaden Collaros, Aidan Bristow. Conversions: Justin Cross (2). Penalty: Cross. <strong>Kearsney College 11 &#8211;<\/strong> Try: Bradley Taylor. Penalties: Jordan Bamber (2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[powr-comments id=&#8221;e72b051c_1555590674432&#8243;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kearsney College traditionally opens their Standard Bank Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival and this year, the 12th, it was against Pretoria Boys&#8217; High. Kearsney had the better of the first half, but it was all PBHS in the second half for a 27-11 win. After initially feeling out each other it was Pretoria who scored when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","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\/8691","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}