{"id":9174,"date":"2019-09-26T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/boland-take-iqhawe-week-honours-at-home\/"},"modified":"2019-09-26T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:05:05","slug":"boland-take-iqhawe-week-honours-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=9174","title":{"rendered":"Boland take Iqhawe Week honours at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-9173\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NewsGBolandChampions.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGBolandChampions\" width=\"412\" height=\"206\" \/>It was a rewarding day for Boland on the final day of the Iqhawe Week at Paarl Gymnasium on Thursday, as they delivered a scintillating performance against Griquas in the final match of the tournament for a 29-10 victory and top honours in front of their home fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Bolanders got off to a flying start in the grand finale of the Under-15 competition \u2013 which is a joint venture between the South African Rugby Legends Association and SA Rugby \u2013 scoring four tries before the break, which included two by Michail Damon (fullback), to race to a 26-5 halftime lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This paved the way for their convincing 29-10 victory, despite the only points scored in the second half being a penalty goal by Boland and a try by Griquas. The win marked their third in as many games \u2013 a feat only Boland and the Sharks achieved in the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Sharks, in turn, overcame a tightly-fought first half against Eastern Province in which they led 12-10 to force their way to a 26-15 victory, while the Leopards also ensured that they finished the competition strongly with six different players crossing the try line en route to their 43-5 victory against the Pumas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Golden Lions, meanwhile, scored four tries to three by SWD for their 31-17 victory, with their more effective goal-kicking handing them a distinct edge on the scoreboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There were also a number of tight contests spicing up the final day\u2019s action, with the Griffons and Valke playing to a 17-17 draw as they scored three tries and one conversion a piece, while Border pipped Western Province 32-31 after surviving a strong second-half fightback by the Capetonians who found themselves trailing 20-5 at the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Free State had to work hard for their 21-19 victory against the Blue Bulls, with their extra conversion proving to be the difference on the scoreboard as both teams touched down three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Iqhawe Week Day 3 results (Thursday, 26 September):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Western Province 31-32 Border<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blue Bulls 19-21 Free State<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">SWD 17-31 Golden Lions<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Griffons 17-17 Valke<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eastern Province 15-26 KZN<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leopards 43-5 Pumas<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boland 29-10 Griquas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rewarding day for Boland on the final day of the Iqhawe Week at Paarl Gymnasium on Thursday, as they delivered a scintillating performance against Griquas in the final match of the tournament for a 29-10 victory and top honours in front of their home fans. The Bolanders got off to a flying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9174","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\/9174","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}