{"id":8726,"date":"2019-04-22T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/edwards-hat-trick-not-enough-to-secure-pretoria-boys-high-a-third-victory\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:38:51","slug":"edwards-hat-trick-not-enough-to-secure-pretoria-boys-high-a-third-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8726","title":{"rendered":"Edwards hat-trick not enough to secure Pretoria Boys&#8217; High a third victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8725\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NewsGMikhailEdwards.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGMikhailEdwards\" width=\"379\" height=\"400\" \/>Pretoria Boys High were looking for their third win at the festival when they came up against HTS Middelburg, hungry for their first win. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was Middelburg who made the best of their chances to take a 19-8 lead at the break. Pretoria had a number of chances, but a mistake in the last move prevented more than one try from them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Flank Jandre Kleyn opened the scoring with a try for HTS, and this was followed by Jaden Collaros converting a penalty. Impressive wing Quintino October then scored the first of his two tries, for Middelburg to go into a 12-3 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pretoria had some sustained pressure in the red zone with wing Bradley Mayekiso diving over to reduce the lead to 8-12. Pretoria Boys could rue the chances that they let slip and it was October, scoring his second try of the match, this time converted by Alec Vermaak, for HTS to lead 19-8 going into the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some good handling led to HTS opening the scoring in the second half, when centre Christiaan Vlok scored, converted by Vermaak, to increase the lead to 26-8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This seemed to wake up the Pretoria forwards and they were rewarded when centre Mikhail Edwards held on to the ball, broke through a tackle and ran 30m to score. Midway through the half, Edwards was again on hand to score his second try, this time converted by Justin Cross, to narrow the gap to 20-26. Two penalties converted by Vermaak increased the HTS lead to 32-20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boys High came back with Edwards scoring his hat-trick under the poles for an easy conversion by Cross to give them hope at 27-32. It was not to be; after another great game with plenty of movement ended with HTS Middelburg getting their first win of the festival in an exciting finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HTS Middelburg: Tries October (2), Vlok, Kleyn; Conversions Vermaak (3); Penalties Vermaak (2)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pretoria Boys High: Tries Mayekiso, Edwards (3); Conversions Cross (2); Penalty Collaros<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria Boys High were looking for their third win at the festival when they came up against HTS Middelburg, hungry for their first win. It was Middelburg who made the best of their chances to take a 19-8 lead at the break. Pretoria had a number of chances, but a mistake in the last move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","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\/8726","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=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}