{"id":89089,"date":"2026-01-23T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89089"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:38:37","slug":"shaw-century-rocks-northern-region-schools-sa20-defending-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89089","title":{"rendered":"Shaw century rocks Northern Region Schools SA20 defending champs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AJ Morkel in action against Wynberg Boys’ High during the Peninsula Cricket Festival in Cape Town. Photo: Schalk Coetzee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lunch at Ho\u00ebrskool Hans Moore<\/strong> must have tasted just a little more flavourful than usual for Aidan Shaw<\/strong> and Kearan Weyers<\/strong> after they spearheaded their side to a scintillating victory over the defending Northern Region champions in the Switch Schools SA20<\/strong> on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Relive all the\u00a0Switch Schools SA20\u00a0<\/em>action or catch it LIVE on SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The younger of the Shaw brothers produced a statement performance, striking an unbeaten century in a 24-run win over Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein<\/strong> on home soil in Benoni.<\/p>\n

The hosts, however, narrowly missed out on a valuable bonus point, falling short by four runs of restricting the Ysbere<\/em><\/strong> to 120, which would have earned them an extra point.<\/p>\n

Shaw<\/strong> was the central figure in a dramatic recovery after Moories<\/em> <\/strong>slumped to 8\/2 early on, and then to 12\/3 in the fourth over.<\/p>\n

Facing 70 of the innings’ 120 balls, the all-rounder smashed a superb unbeaten 103, peppering the boundary with 12 boundaries, six of which cleared the rope. Remarkably, he was the only Hans Moore batsman to pass 20, with the next highest score a modest 15 from Stephan Vermaak<\/strong>, which was almost seven times less than Shaw’s outstanding knock.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the damage inflicted by the Garsies<\/strong>‘ <\/em>bowlers was wrought by Ruan Coetzee<\/strong>, who produced an impressive new-ball spell, grabbing two wickets in his four overs, which cost 27 runs.<\/p>\n

Weyers, Han Moore’s\u00a0<\/strong>left-arm off-spinner, continued his outstanding form. Fresh off scoring 95 and bagging a four-wicket haul against<\/strong> Potchefstroom Gimnasium<\/strong><\/a>, he was again decisive, returning match-winning figures of 4\/17 from four overs, which played a pivotal role in restricting the defending champions to 126 all out.<\/p>\n

Riaan Boshoff<\/strong> top-scored for the Pretoria side with a fluent 38 from 28 balls to sound a warning ahead of Garsfontein’s afternoon clash against Ho\u00ebrskool Ben Vorster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At Actonville Cricket Club<\/strong>, Ho\u00ebrskool Marais Viljoen<\/strong> swept aside Merensky Landbou Akademie<\/strong>, winning by six wickets behind an inspired innings from opening batsman Trent Shrives<\/strong>. Chasing 117 to win, Shrives<\/strong> struck an unbeaten 62 from 51 balls to almost single-handedly steer his side to victory. No other batsmen made it beyond the teens.<\/p>\n

Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool (Affies)<\/strong> also made a powerful early statement, skittling the Black Caps<\/em><\/strong> of Ho\u00ebrskool Ben Vorster<\/strong> for only 58 to set up an emphatic eight-wicket victory.<\/p>\n

JP Botha<\/strong> starred with a superb all-round display, which was highlighted by his 4\/8 from four overs, which tore apart Ben Vorster’s innings. Later, he chipped in with an unbeaten 24.<\/p>\n

Vihan Pretorius<\/strong>, who is usually a seam bowling threat, bowled off spin and was rewarded with two wickets in three balls in the 15th over. He was also part of a run out and finished with figures of 2\/14.<\/p>\n

AJ Morkel <\/strong>helped JP Botha make light work of the run chase. He faced only eight balls, but made them count, blasting his way to 23 runs as Affies overhauled the Limpopo side’s total in only five overs.<\/p>\n

Summarised scorecards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hans Moore 150\/5\u00a0<\/strong>(Aiden Shaw 103*; Ruan Coetzee 2\/27);\u00a0Garsfontein 126\/10 <\/strong>(Riaan Boshoff 38, Arrie Verster 21; Kearan Wyers 4\/17, Nathan King 2\/7).\u00a0Hans Moore won by 24 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merensky 116\/9\u00a0<\/strong>(Logan Janse van Rensburg 26; Extras 23; Rieshaeel Hashim 2\/16, Ethan van Rooyen 2\/21, Zaim Hashim 2\/22);\u00a0Marais Viljoen 117\/4\u00a0<\/strong>(Trent Shrives 62*; Yogi Brahmbatt 2\/22).\u00a0Marais Viljoen won by six wickets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben Voster 58\/10 <\/strong>(Ruben Pohl 13; JP Botha 4\/8, Vihan Pretorius 2\/14);\u00a0Affies 59\/2 <\/strong>(JP Botha 24*, AJ Morkel 23; Rivoningo Chauke 1\/14).\u00a0Affies won by eight wickets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lunch at Ho\u00ebrskool Hans Moore must have tasted just a little more flavourful than usual for Aidan Shaw and Kearan Weyers after they spearheaded their side to a scintillating victory over the defending Northern Region champions in the Switch Schools SA20 on Friday morning. Relive all the\u00a0Switch Schools SA20\u00a0action or catch it LIVE on SuperSport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":89094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89089","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\/89089","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}