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Not even icy cold and relentless rain could halt the hosts, Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<\/strong>, as they opened the Fairtree Sport Festival<\/strong> with a commanding 64-12 victory over Ho\u00ebrskool Tygerberg<\/strong> on Friday in Pretoria.<\/p>\n Relive all the action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools<\/a> – (www.supersportschools)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Parkies<\/em><\/strong> dominated up front, laying a strong attacking platform through their powerful scrumming and accurate lineout work, which was an impressive feat in the challenging conditions.<\/p>\n The spotlight up front fell on hooker Jannes Eksteen<\/strong>, who controlled the driving maul superbly and was rewarded with two tries.<\/p>\n Loosehead prop Dean Field<\/strong> also earned a reward for his impressive scrumming and crossed for a try of his own.<\/p>\n Despite the less-than-ideal conditions, the hosts’ backline thrived. The return of Dylan Stumke<\/strong> at inside centre made a notable difference. He demonstrated his versatile skill set by using his powerful left boot to keep the Tigers pinned deep in their half, on defence.<\/p>\n Jody<\/strong> Abrahams<\/strong>, who took on the role of fullback, settled in as if he had worn the no. 15 jersey all season long, bagging a brace of tries, thanks to his lively performance.<\/p>\n However, none shone brighter than Menlo’s left-wing Zander Hamman<\/strong>. He impressed with a series of powerful runs, one of which resulted in a well-taken try. He then compounded the damage with his boot, converting seven of his nine attempts at goal to contribute 19 points to his side’s tally.<\/p>\n Despite the heavy defeat, the try of the day, arguably, belonged to Ho\u00ebrskool Tygerberg<\/strong>‘s fullback Calvin Hitmana<\/strong>, who brought the small Western Cape contingent to their feet with a superb solo effort, which began in his own 22 and saw him slice through multiple defenders on his way to the try-line.<\/p>\n Scorers<\/strong><\/p>\n Menlopark 64 (28) – <\/strong>Tries: Jannes Eksteen (2), Jody Abrahams (2), Zander Hamman, Dean Field, Duran Pieterse, Tyler Burkett, Dylan Stumke, Lucian Reed. Conversions: Hamman (7). Tygerberg (12) <\/strong>– Try: Calvin Hitimana, Penalty Try.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not even icy cold and relentless rain could halt the hosts, Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark, as they opened the Fairtree Sport Festival with a commanding 64-12 victory over Ho\u00ebrskool Tygerberg on Friday in Pretoria. Relive all the action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools)\u00a0 Parkies dominated up front, laying a strong attacking platform through their powerful scrumming and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":94240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94239","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\/94239","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=94239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}