{"id":9294,"date":"2020-03-11T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/newlands-day-produced-some-exciting-schoolboy-rugby\/"},"modified":"2020-03-11T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:20:39","slug":"newlands-day-produced-some-exciting-schoolboy-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"Newlands Day produced some exciting schoolboy rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5731\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Western_Province.jpg\" alt=\"Western Province\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" \/>There was an electric atmosphere at DHL Newlands on Tuesday as some of the top schools&#8217; rugby talent got a chance to show what they could do at the Western Province Rugby Schools Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With nine matches of 40 minutes each, there was action on the pitch from 14h00 and the schools turned out in their numbers in the afternoon, eventually close to filling the grandstand at DHL Newlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rugby itself was gripping as the teams did everything to impress on their chance to play in front of a big crowd at DHL Newlands, with a large number of interested parents, old boys, and school rugby fans in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Club sides SK Walmers and Busy Bees were also in action in addition to the different schools&#8217; teams, with plenty of tries being scored in the early games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scottsdene High held out against Gordons High before SK Walmers got the better of Busy Bees and Milnerton managed to shut out Melkbosstrand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A clinical performance from Durbanville saw them dominate against Brackenfell, while Stellenberg scored the only two tries in what was a tense encounter with Bellville as the light began to fade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boland Landbou were impressive in their 20-5 win against SACS, taking their opportunities well to deny the locals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the performances of the day came from Wynberg, who scored early and late to claim a 15-10 win against Paul Roos in dramatic style, with their gathered supporters cheering on loudly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another well-supported team was Paarl Boys and they were suitably dominant in their 15-5 win against Rondebosch. The final match saw Paarl Gim beat Bishops 20-15 in an entertaining match to end the night. Bishops did well to score three tries of their own, but the Paarl team scored four to end the event on a high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WP Rugby Schools Day results from DHL Newlands:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scottsdene 10-5 Gordons<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">SK Walmers RFC 35-5 Busy Bees RFC<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Milnerton 30-0 Melkbosstrand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brackenfell 0-50 Durbanville<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bellville 0-10 Stellenberg<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">SACS 5-20 Boland Landbou<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wynberg 15-10 Paul Roos<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rondebosch 5-15 Paarl Boys<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paarl Gim 20-15 Bishops<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an electric atmosphere at DHL Newlands on Tuesday as some of the top schools&#8217; rugby talent got a chance to show what they could do at the Western Province Rugby Schools Day. With nine matches of 40 minutes each, there was action on the pitch from 14h00 and the schools turned out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","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\/9294","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=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}