{"id":8733,"date":"2019-04-22T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/glenwood-king-of-the-mud-against-transvalia-at-kerf2019\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:22:32","slug":"glenwood-king-of-the-mud-against-transvalia-at-kerf2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8733","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood king of the mud against Transvalia at KERF2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8732\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NewsGCarloCloete.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGCarloCloete\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/>With rain falling steadily, the conditions were not conducive to running rugby and yet Glenwood\u2019s handling was only slightly affected.&nbsp; Mistakes in the wet by visitors Transvalia cost them points as the Glenwood boys were quick to counter-attack.&nbsp; This led to tries against the run of play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Transvalia scored in the first five minutes following a maul, with hooker Bernard du Plessis breaking from the back to dive over, for a converted try by Shaun Christie for the early 7-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A penalty by Jordan Hendrickse made it 3-7.&nbsp; Glenwood, more adept in the wet, scored their first try when centre Martino van Wyk broke through, again converted by Hendrickse, for Glenwood to lead 10-7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A kick ahead, a gather and wing Carlo Cloete sped away from the defence to score in the corner.&nbsp; Again Hendrikse split the upright from the touchline conversion for a 17-7 lead.&nbsp; &nbsp;Two further converted tries, first by flank Ethan Smit and the second by hooker Sikholisa Nanto, saw Glenwood into a comfortable 31-7 lead at the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When play restarted, the mist was billowing in and conditions worsened.&nbsp; The rugby however continued to enthral, with good running and good defence.&nbsp; Glenwood scored again through fullback Steven Gibb, and with the conversion, Glenwood led 38-7, which became the final score of the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Glenwood<\/strong>: Tries: Smit, Cloete, Van Wyk, Nonto, Gibb; Conversions Hendrikse (5); Penalty Hendrikse<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Drostdy<\/strong>: Try Du Plessis; Conversion Christie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rain falling steadily, the conditions were not conducive to running rugby and yet Glenwood\u2019s handling was only slightly affected.&nbsp; Mistakes in the wet by visitors Transvalia cost them points as the Glenwood boys were quick to counter-attack.&nbsp; This led to tries against the run of play. Transvalia scored in the first five minutes following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","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\/8733","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=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}