{"id":8914,"date":"2019-06-28T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/sharks-of-2019-are-the-slayers-of-giants-at-u13-craven-week\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:48:10","slug":"sharks-of-2019-are-the-slayers-of-giants-at-u13-craven-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"Sharks of 2019 are the slayers of giants at u13 Craven Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8913\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/NewsGSharksu13.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGSharksu13\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/NewsGSharksu13.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/NewsGSharksu13-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The Sharks managed to spoil Western Province&#8217;s party at the annual u13 Craven Week at Rob Ferreira in White River. The team from KwaZulu-Natal shocked Western Province by 26-24 to be crowned unofficial champions of the tournament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This spoiled Western Province&#8217;s party as they were attempting to be crowned unofficial champions for the seventh successive time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This was only Western Province&#8217;s fourth defeat in their last 44 matches at this prestigious event. It also ended their unbeaten record that stretched from the first match of the 2013 tournament. Their last defeat before Friday&#8217;s against the Sharks was against the Blue Bulls in 2012 (19-8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other two defeats during their last 44 clashes at the Craven Week were also in the main matches against the Eastern Province (0-12) and Limpopo Blue Bulls (6-8) in 2009 and 2011 respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More to follow&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scorers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sharks 26 (19) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries:\u00a0Sisonke Ndlela (3), Penalty Try. Conversions:\u00a0Ramatuku Sikhakhane (2). <strong>Western Province 24 (7) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Chris Jordaan (2),\u00a0Simthandile Mafuya, David Simon. Conversions: Simon (2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boland 71 (36) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Cheswill Jooste (4), Clemintino Thompson (2), Latino Mentoor (2), Haygen Opperman (2), Kieran Smith. Conversions: Viaan Mentoor (5), Dequinne de Bruyn (3). <strong>Griffons 5 (0) &#8211;<\/strong> Try: Rylen Kirsten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Western Districts 45 (5) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Kurt Coetzee (2), Rowan Mafutu (2), Erick Steyn, Keanon Jantjies, Aza Gabada. Conversions: Jantjies (3), Coetzee (2).\u00a0<strong>Limpopo Blue Bulls 15 (15) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Risima Kosa, Liam Santos. Conversion: Andrew Stopforth. Penalty: Stopforth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leopards 26 (7) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Clayton Wright, Geoffrey French, Cohen Witbaai, Zulu Khumalo. Conversions: Lhuandr\u00e9 Pretorius (3). <strong>Free State 12 (0) &#8211;<\/strong> Tries: Divan Roux, Pieter van der Merwe. Conversion: Kamo Mokoena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sharks managed to spoil Western Province&#8217;s party at the annual u13 Craven Week at Rob Ferreira in White River. The team from KwaZulu-Natal shocked Western Province by 26-24 to be crowned unofficial champions of the tournament.\u00a0 This spoiled Western Province&#8217;s party as they were attempting to be crowned unofficial champions for the seventh successive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","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\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}