{"id":8716,"date":"2019-04-20T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/welkom-gim-defeat-donkies-after-upping-performance-in-second-half\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T14:05:48","slug":"welkom-gim-defeat-donkies-after-upping-performance-in-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"Welkom Gim defeat Donkies after upping performance in second-half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8696\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NewsGHTSDrostdy.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGHTSDrostdy\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" \/>A low-scoring first half between HTS Drostdy and Welkom Gim saw the boys from Worcester 9-5 in the lead after three penalties by Carlton Pietersen.&nbsp; It was a try by hooker Martley Bayman that gave Welkom their points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second half began with a second try by Bayman, his third of the festival, to put Welkom in front again.&nbsp; Wing Angelo Olivier showed good pace in rounding the cover defence to score again for Welkom, this time converted by fullback Marchall Andrews, to increase the lead to 17-9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drostdy came right back when centre Zach le Roux got over in the corner, converted by Pietersen, to narrow the deficit to one point 16-17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welkom managed to move the ball rapidly to the left, finding fullback Andrews and he beat the defence to score in the corner.&nbsp; Flank Macneil Matthews took over the kicking duties from Andrews and showed good skill converting from the touchline, giving his team a cushion and a 24-16 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With three minutes remaining, Welkom centre Keith van Aswegen beat the defenders with good pace to increase the lead to 29-16.&nbsp; A final penalty by Andrews completed a 32-16 win by Welkom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Drostdy:<\/strong> Try Le Roux; Conversion Pietersen; Penalties Pietersen (3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Welkom:<\/strong> Tries Andrews, Van Aswegen, Olivier, Bayman (2); Conversion Andrews; Penalties Andrews, Matthews<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A low-scoring first half between HTS Drostdy and Welkom Gim saw the boys from Worcester 9-5 in the lead after three penalties by Carlton Pietersen.&nbsp; It was a try by hooker Martley Bayman that gave Welkom their points. The second half began with a second try by Bayman, his third of the festival, to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","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\/8716","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=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}