{"id":96540,"date":"2026-05-26T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=96540"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:24:32","slug":"queens-college-victorious-against-feisty-hudson-park-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=96540","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s College victorious against feisty Hudson Park High"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Queen’s College finished strongly to douse a lively Hudson Park High challenge at the Rec Ground. Photo: Queen’s College on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Queen\u2019s College<\/strong> overcame some moments of anxiety with 19 minutes remaining before going on to score a solid 40-22 victory in a well-contested encounter against Hudson Park<\/strong> High<\/strong> at the Rec Ground<\/strong> in Komani on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The home team led 20-14 at the break, but then had to watch as Hudson took control of the early part of the second half.<\/p>\n

By the 51st minute, the visitors led 22-20, after adding eight points without reply.<\/p>\n

The Queenians, however, regrouped admirably. A few minutes later, they scored from a rolling maul before hooker Nande Tiwani<\/strong> produced one of the highlights of the match when he found himself in space and sprinted some 30 metres for another try.<\/p>\n

That lifted the home side into a 34-22 lead, providing them with some much-needed daylight. Queen’s flyhalf Bongo Nyakaza<\/strong> then made sure of victory by kicking two more penalties.<\/p>\n

Nyakaza made a telling contribution with his boot, slotting four conversions and four penalties for a personal tally of 20 points.<\/p>\n

Other tries for Queen’s came from Zino Lali<\/strong>, Ncutu Kepe<\/strong> and Zimi Deleki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Following an early try by scrumhalf Zizibele Mtongwana<\/strong>, Hudson crossed again in the 11th<\/sup> minute, with their big centre Athan Gravett<\/strong> making a superb break to put Mtongwana in again under the posts.<\/p>\n

In the second half, wing Cwenga Bityo<\/strong> beat the cover defence for another good try, while he also added 10 points with the boot.<\/p>\n

At Ooskus Gymnasium<\/strong>, Stirling High <\/b>came from behind, scoring a late try to edge out the home side 19-18, while, in other matches, Selborne<\/strong> and Dale<\/strong> scored big wins.<\/p>\n

For Stirling, Iyazi Mbhele<\/strong> crossed for a hat-trick of tries. Crucially, two of those were converted.<\/p>\n

Selborne played a midweek fixture against Port Rex<\/strong> and had too much class for their opponents. Loose forward Travis Enslin<\/strong> enjoyed a field day, running in four tries in a 60-10 victory. Selborne led 34-0 at the break<\/p>\n

Similarly, Dale set up their 59-7 win over Cambridge High<\/strong> at the Graveyard<\/strong> in Qonce by jumping out to a 33-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n

Scorers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queen’s College 40 (20) –<\/strong> Tries: Zina Lali, Ncutu Kepe, Zimi Deleke, Nande Tiwani. Penalties: Bongo Nyakaza (4). Conversions: Nyakaza (4). Hudson Park High 22 (14) –<\/strong> Tries: Zizibele Mtongwana (2), Cwenga Bityo. Penalty: Bityo. Conversions: Bityo (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queen\u2019s College overcame some moments of anxiety with 19 minutes remaining before going on to score a solid 40-22 victory in a well-contested encounter against Hudson Park High at the Rec Ground in Komani on Saturday. The home team led 20-14 at the break, but then had to watch as Hudson took control of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":96541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96540","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\/96540","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}