{"id":88242,"date":"2026-01-08T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=88242"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:54:53","slug":"big-guns-on-song-at-pretoria-boys-high-pre-season-basketball-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=88242","title":{"rendered":"Big guns on song at Pretoria Boys High Pre-Season Basketball Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The inaugural Pretoria Boys High School (PHBS) Basketball Festival<\/strong> kicked off on Thursday, 8 January morning in Pretoria, featuring 12 leading basketball-playing schools from the Gauteng region.<\/p>\n

The line-up includes, among others, PHBS A<\/strong>, ESCA<\/strong>, King Edward VII School (KES)<\/strong>, and St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong>, who were among the first sides to make an impact on the festival’s opening day.<\/p>\n

The home team, PHBS A, kicked off the festival with a hard-fought 42-35 victory of their city rivals, St Alban’s College<\/strong>. After the lunch break, PHBS A ratcheted up their momentum with an impressive 76-11 demolition of Crawford College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was, unfortunately for Crawford College, a challenging opening day. They also went down 10-34 to St John’s College A.<\/p>\n

St Alban’s College, after suffering defeat in their opener, showed marked improvement in their second outing, displaying greater energy in a 40-29 victory over St John’s College A.<\/p>\n

Pool B features, among others, ESCA, KES, and The King’s School Linbro Park<\/strong>, with the first two expected to be right in the thick of the title challenge.<\/p>\n

Both ESCA and KES enjoyed title-winning successes in 2025, with ESCA winning titles at the Westville Boys’ High Invitational School Stayers’ Basketball Tournament<\/strong><\/a> and The King’s School Linbro Park Basketball Tournament<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>KES lifted the Inanda Hoops Classic Challenge<\/a><\/strong>, held at St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong>, in October.<\/p>\n

Both teams demonstrated their prowess on the festival’s opening day. KES initiated their winning streak with a 43-28 victory over Linbro Park. They followed up with a 52-24 defeat of St John’s College B<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

ESCA beat St John’s College B 57-35 in the morning and came away with a 36-27 win over King’s Linbro later in the day.<\/p>\n

In Pool C, Jeppe defeated PHBS B <\/strong>31-19 in the first match of the group. St David’s also secured a victory, downing St Stithians College <\/strong>31-18 in their first game.<\/p>\n

Saints<\/strong><\/em> bounced back in the afternoon, handing Jeppe a 42-23 loss, while St David’s made their record two from two with a 36-18 win over PBHS B.<\/p>\n

RESULTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, 8 January\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pool A<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHBS A 42-35 St Alban’s College
\nSt John’s A 34-10 Crawford
\nSt Alban’s College 40-29 St John’s A
\nPHBS A 76-11 Crawford<\/p>\n

Pool B<\/strong><\/p>\n

KES 43-28 Linbro Park
\nESCA 57-35 St John’s B
\nESCA 36-27 King’s Linbro
\nKES 52-24 St John’s B<\/p>\n

Pool C<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeppe 31-19 PHBS B
\nSt David’s 31-18 St Stithians College
\nSt Stithians College 42-23 Jeppe
\nSt David’s 36-18 PHBS B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The inaugural Pretoria Boys High School (PHBS) Basketball Festival kicked off on Thursday, 8 January morning in Pretoria, featuring 12 leading basketball-playing schools from the Gauteng region. The line-up includes, among others, PHBS A, ESCA, King Edward VII School (KES), and St David’s Marist Inanda, who were among the first sides to make an impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":65177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88242","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\/88242","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}