{"id":90967,"date":"2026-02-22T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90967"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:54:58","slug":"rustenburg-stays-in-finsbury-a-section-after-fryer-inspired-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90967","title":{"rendered":"Rustenburg stays in Finsbury A section after Fryer-inspired fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90973\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90973\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Beyers-Pretorius-bowled-by-Callie-Fryer-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midstream College opening batsman, Beyers Pretorius, had his off-stump snapped in half by a fired-up Callie Fryer of Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1466999722097705&amp;set=pb.100063630724356.-2207520000&amp;type=3\"><strong>Midstream College on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of <strong>Callie Fryer<\/strong>&#8216;s finest performances in the <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg<\/strong> kit inspired a 39\u2011run victory, which secured <em><strong>Rusties<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; place in A Section of the Finsbury League.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fryer, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/hoerskool-rustenburg-star-callie-fryer-makes-franchise-debut-at-just-17\/\"><strong>who made his first\u2011class debut just three weeks ago<\/strong><\/a>, produced six of the best, which enabled Rustenburg to defend a modest total of 133 all out in their promotion\/relegation clash against <strong>Midstream College<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After scoring an important 22 with the bat, the second\u2011highest contribution for the home side behind the 30 made by <strong>Tristan van der Linde<\/strong>, Fryer delivered a match\u2011defining eight\u2011over spell.<\/p>\n<p>Making good use of his home wicket, Fryer was fast and ruthless. He knocked over six batsmen, conceded only 28 runs, and delivered 37 dot balls from his 48 deliveries in a match-winning performance.<\/p>\n<p>A valuable contribution of 2\/24 from <strong>Augustus (Augie) Behrens <\/strong>also helped limit the visitors from Midrand to only 94 all out. <strong>Dian de Villiers <\/strong>and <strong>Ryan Strauss<\/strong>, with 20 apiece, fought hard, but that wasn&#8217;t enough in the face of Fryer&#8217;s fierce pace.<\/p>\n<p>Midstream College had been set 134 for victory, thanks to a good bowling performance, led by <strong>Beyers Pretorius<\/strong>. who ripped into the Rusties&#8217; batting line-up, knocking over 4\/18, while <strong>Tehan Mar\u00e9<\/strong> chipped in with 2\/6.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Midstream, they weren&#8217;t prepared for Callie Fryer&#8217;s six-wicket masterclass and the devastation that it wrought.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg 133\/10 <\/strong>(Tristan van der Linde 30, Callie Fryer 22, Xander Wenhold 20, Extras 20; Beyers Pretorius 4\/18, Tehan Mar\u00e9 2\/6). <strong>Midstream College 94\/10 <\/strong>(Dian de Villiers 20, Ryan Strauss 20, Extras 20; Callie Fryer 6\/28, Augustus Behrens 2\/24).\u00a0<strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg won by 39 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Callie Fryer&#8216;s finest performances in the Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg kit inspired a 39\u2011run victory, which secured Rusties&#8216; place in A Section of the Finsbury League. Fryer, who made his first\u2011class debut just three weeks ago, produced six of the best, which enabled Rustenburg to defend a modest total of 133 all out in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":90973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90967","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\/90967","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=90967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}