{"id":92994,"date":"2026-04-02T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=92994"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:38:10","slug":"hilton-and-menlopark-enjoy-a-productive-day-at-the-st-stithians-hockey-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=92994","title":{"rendered":"Hilton and Menlopark enjoy a productive day at the St Stithians Hockey Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clifton College gave their travelling party of supporters plenty of reasons to cheer with splendid performances on Thursday at the St Stithians Hockey Festival. Photo: Supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DSG Makhanda<\/strong> and Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<\/strong> dominated the girls’ section, while Pretoria Boys High (PBHS)<\/strong> and KwaZulu-Natal’s Hilton College<\/strong> and Clifton College <\/strong>delivered outstanding performances in the boys’ section of the St Stithians Hockey Festival <\/strong>on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Hilton bookended the boys’ section schedule with victories over St David’s Marist Inanda <\/strong>and Reddam House Constantia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sechaba Gude<\/strong>, Tadi Hove<\/strong>, and Ethan Maltby<\/strong> found the back of the net in their 3-0 win over St David\u2019s Marist Inanda in the first match of the day.<\/p>\n

Coach Damian Kimfley<\/strong>\u2019s charges then took that form into the day’s final game. Hove and Maltby were on the scoresheet again, while Oyena Zulu<\/strong> added another in a 3-1 victory over Reddam House.<\/p>\n

Their provincial counterparts, Clifton, registered a win and a draw. Daniel Rea<\/strong> fired them to a 1-0 win over the hosts, St Stithians, in the morning, and Tye Milne <\/strong>scored in a 1-1 draw with PBHS later in the day, with Bongai Vuyeqaba<\/strong> replying for Boys High.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Victor Louw<\/strong> struck four times for PBHS in an emphatic 9-1 victory over Ashton International College, Ballito<\/strong>. Paidin Gray<\/strong>, Caylum du Preez<\/strong>, Chad Donkin,<\/strong> Liam van Eyssen<\/strong>, and Hans Arndt <\/strong>added a goal each.<\/p>\n

That was the joint-largest victory margin on Thursday, equalled by Falcon College <\/strong>in an 11-2 thrashing of the St Stithians Festival XI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Menlopark has been a force to be reckoned with at the Saints Festival. Photo: Supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Menlopark, who routed Beaulieu College<\/strong> 8-0 to record the widest margin of victory on day one of the girls’ festival, continued their dominance.<\/p>\n

Coach Brad Brook<\/strong>\u2019s charges kept clean sheets in victories over Ashton and Epworth School<\/strong>, winning those games 3-0 and 4-0, respectively.<\/p>\n

DSG Makhanda, who cruised to a 7-0 win over Springfield<\/strong><\/a> on day one, was put to the test by Waterkloof and passed it with flying colours.<\/p>\n

Coach Geowynne Gamiet<\/strong>‘s charges fought their way to a 3-2 win against the ladies from Pretoria, with Emma Watson<\/strong>, Ava van der Walt, <\/strong>and Lucy Holderness<\/strong> providing the goals.<\/p>\n

Holderness was on target again, this time with a hat-trick, to help her side secure a comfortable 4-0 win over St Stithians. Julia MacKenzie<\/strong> added the other goal as DSG Makhanda remained unbeaten at the festival.<\/p>\n

Bethlehem Voortrekker <\/strong>and Beaulieu College had mixed results, with both recording a win and a loss.<\/p>\n

Voortrekker began their day with a 2-0 win over Falcon before succumbing to a 0-4 defeat against Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>. Beaulieu, beaten 1-0 by Springfield in the morning, bounced back with a 3-0 win over the St Stithians Festival XI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In a break from the schools’ matches, the St Stithians’ old boys and girls demonstrated their smooth hockey skills, even though most of them no longer train as often as they did during their time at the institution. The St Stithians Alumni Men<\/strong>‘s team scored five unanswered goals against the St Stithians 1st XI, and the St Stithians Alumni Women<\/strong>\u2019s team defeated the St Stithians Girls\u2019 College Festival XI 3-0.<\/p>\n

The teams will rest on Good Friday. On Saturday morning, the action resumes at 07:00, with Clifton College tackling Reddam House Constantia. The first girls’ match starts at 07:15, with a showdown between Waterkloof and Epworth.<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hilton 3-0 St David’s Marist Inanda
\nClifton 1-0 St Stithians
\nMenlopark 2-1 Falcon
\nPretoria Boys High 9-1 Ashton Ballito
\nAffies 3-0 St Stithians Festival XI
\nSt David’s Marist Inanda 5-1 Reddam Constantia
\nSt Benedict’s 4-2 Menlopark
\nFalcon 11-2 St Stithians Festival XI
\nClifton 1-1 Pretoria Boys High
\nStithians Alumni XI 5-0 St Stithians
\nHilton 3-1 Reddam House Constantia.<\/p>\n

Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n

Springfield 1-0 Beaulieu
\nSt Stithians 1-0 Epworth
\nMenlopark 3-0 Ashton Ballito
\nBethlehem Voortrekker 2-0 Falcon
\nBeaulieu 3-0 St Stithians Festival XI
\nDSG Makhanda 3-2 Waterkloof
\nMenlopark 4-0 Epworth
\nSt Stithians Alumni XI 3-0 St Stithians Festival XI
\nSpringfield 1-0 Falcon
\nDSG Makhanda 4-0 St Stithians
\nWaterkloof 4-0 Bethlehem Voortrekker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DSG Makhanda and Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark dominated the girls’ section, while Pretoria Boys High (PBHS) and KwaZulu-Natal’s Hilton College and Clifton College delivered outstanding performances in the boys’ section of the St Stithians Hockey Festival on Thursday. Hilton bookended the boys’ section schedule with victories over St David’s Marist Inanda and Reddam House Constantia. Sechaba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":92997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92994","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\/92994","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}