{"id":90662,"date":"2026-02-18T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90662"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:21:06","slug":"stellenberg-downs-bellville-in-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90662","title":{"rendered":"Stellenberg downs Bellville in semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90663\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90663\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stellenberg-Bellville-2026-Feb-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stellenberg High has won three of their last four weekday matches, including victories over Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High and SACS. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/michael-thomas-and-stellenbergs-exciting-cricketing-evolution\/\"><strong>Supplied by Michael Thomas.<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Bellville derby awaited in the semi-finals of the 25-over <strong>Sammy Bloch Competition<\/strong> on Tuesday, with <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Bellville<\/strong> hosting <strong>Stellenberg High<\/strong>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/michael-thomas-and-stellenbergs-exciting-cricketing-evolution\/\"><strong>extremely successful 2025\/26 campaign<\/strong> <\/a>has been one of the stories of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The toss favoured the home side, who opted to bat first. Their innings was anchored by opener <strong>Xander Lategang<\/strong>, who resisted the <em><strong>Stellies<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; bowlers for 66 deliveries while producing the innings&#8217; top score of 38 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Number six batsman, <strong>Jordan Holtman<\/strong>, provided the next-best score for the hosts, striking three fours in his run-a-ball 28.<\/p>\n<p>Stellenberg, though, did a tidy job of keeping Bellville in check. Captain<strong> JJ Rothman<\/strong> delivered an economical three-over spell, picking up 2\/12. <strong>Gerrard Kamalie<\/strong> was even tighter and claimed 1\/11 in four overs.<\/p>\n<p>Bellville&#8217;s 25 overs ended with the home side on 117\/6. They had scored at 4.68 runs per over. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly high score, but the hosts&#8217; bowlers defended it tigerishly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-C Dikela<\/strong> snapped up a couple of vital early wickets, on his way to a return of 2\/31 from 4.3 overs. <strong>Ezra Williams<\/strong> was Bellville&#8217;s standout, however, knocking over 3\/19 in four overs.<\/p>\n<p>Nine overs into their reply, things weren&#8217;t looking good for the <em><strong>Jade Brigade<\/strong><\/em>. They were mired deep in the mud on 41\/6. <strong>Francois Hugo<\/strong>, batting at seven, and Gerrard Kamalie, at eight, met the challenge head-on, however, and turned the tide.<\/p>\n<p>Kamalie went on the attack, whacking three fours and three sixes in a decisive 43 not out off only 24 deliveries. Hugo was the perfect foil to Kamalie&#8217;s aggressive knock. He sent three deliveries to the boundary in his unbeaten 36 off 42 as the pair carried Stellenberg to victory with an unbroken 77-run seventh-wicket partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their defiant stand, Stellenberg reached 118\/6 after 19.3 overs to win the match by four wickets with 33 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised Scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Bellville 117\/6<\/strong> (Xander Lategang 38*, Jordan Holtman 28; JJ Rothman 2\/12); <strong>Stellenberg High 118\/6<\/strong> (Gerrard Kamalie 43*, Francois Hugo 36*; Ezra Williams 3\/19, Jay-C Dikela 2\/31). <strong>Stellenberg won by four wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bellville derby awaited in the semi-finals of the 25-over Sammy Bloch Competition on Tuesday, with Ho\u00ebrskool Bellville hosting Stellenberg High, whose extremely successful 2025\/26 campaign has been one of the stories of the season. The toss favoured the home side, who opted to bat first. Their innings was anchored by opener Xander Lategang, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":90663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90662","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\/90662","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}