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Rondebosch Boys’ High produced a very good performance in their Premier Interschools match against Diocesan College to walk from Piley Rees victorious 22-7. EG Jansen was in a devastating mood as they recorded a century as they smashed Die Anker 103-17 in their Beeld Trophy match. 

Ben Vorster booked their place in the final of the Limpopo medium schools league with a victory of 47-17 over Nylstroom in the semi-final. Ben Viljoen defeated Louis Trichardt 40-16 in the other semi-final.

Eastern Cape 

Union HS	25	Victoria Park	0
St. Andrew’s College	17	Selborne College	17
Kingswood College	23	Muir College	22

Limpopo

Ben Vorster	47	Nylstroom	16
Ben Viljoen	40	Louis Trichardt	16

Northvaal 

EG Jansen	103	Die Anker	17
Waterkloof	71	Eldoraigne	5
King Edward VII	53	St. John’s College	22
Pretoria Boys’ High	35	St. Alban’s College	6
Jeppe Boys’ High	45	St. Benedict’s College	24
Bekker	60	President	5

Western Province 

Rondebosch Boys’ High	22	Diocesan College	7
Paarl Boys’ High	24	Boland Landbou	13
Paarl Gimnasium	17	Oakdale Landbou	17
Wynberg Boys’ High	15	SACS	7
Tygerberg	23	Stellenberg	18

Twice a year, every year, boys walk the 400 or so metres along Tullyallen Road to play a rugby match. It is a wonderful tradition.

They are the same sort of schools – same sort of boys, same sort of staffs, same sport of parents, same sort of aspirations, same sort of manners, but none of that stops them from getting stuck in on the rugby field, as well they should. Mercifully it is a wholesome passion and then you walk back the 400 or so metres, knowing there will be another one later.

Look back down the years as far as your experience takes you and try to pick the nasty incidents between the two schools. They hardly exist and so it is possible and in fact desirable to play two matches each year. There is no residue of acrimony.

There is added lustre this year as it has been chosen as a Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools and will be shown on television.

This one, at Bishops, the 183rd between the two schools, is the first for 2013, a year when Rondebosch look to have the upper hand.

Bishops have lost their last four matches in a row, seven altogether and a draw in 12 matches. But then, as they have always done, they play top opponents. So do Rondebosch. They have lost three and drawn one of their 10 matches.

Results against Common Opponents

Paul Roos: Bishops drew 22-22; Rondebosch lost 10-5
Paarl Gim: Bishops lost 24-3; Rondebosch lost 35-14
SACS: Bishops lost 22-5; Rondebosch won 41-18
Wynberg: Bishops lost 42-28; Rondebosch drew 10-10

Rondebosch look stronger.
Representative Players

Rondebosch also have more players chosen to represent Western Province teams. Three of their players have been chosen to go to Craven Week – fullback Khanyo Ngcukana and tighthead Brett Paulse – and two made the Western Province Academy Week side – scrumhalf Stef de Gouveia and loosehead Kyle White. Bishops has one in each side – eighthman Saud Abrahams for Craven Week and hooker Cuan Hablutzel for the Academy Week.

All of those are a consolation for Rondebosch and perhaps a concern for Bishops but on the day anything can happen. Just look at the 2011 results down below to see how things can fluctuate.

Teams

Bishops: 15 Gerard Pieterse, 14 Ant van Ryneveld, 13 Mike Mynhardt, 12 Herman Share , 11 Andre Manuel, 10 Ty Wills, 9 Sean van Rensburg, 8 Saud Abrahams, 7 Wes White, 6 Mervano da Silva, 5 Shane Smith, 4 Sam Mitchell, 3 Tariq Allen, 2 Cuan Hablutzel (captain), 1 Dan Russell

Coaches: Dave Mallett, Gareth Hayden, Stephen Knoop

Rondebosch: 15 Khanyo Ngcukana, 14 Blake Reinecke, 13 Clyde Martch, 12 Ronald Melck (captain), 11 Nicholas le Roux, 10 Tyren Lee, 9 Stefano de Gouveia (vice-captain), 8 Jay Stevens, 7 Philip Jankielsohn, 6 Michael Palframan , 5 Christoph Blake, 4 Luke Stringer, 3 Brett Paulse , 2 Alan Eaby, 1 Kyle Whyte
Replacements: 16 Justin Baty, 17 Luca Botha, 18 Robert Jankielsohn, 19 Blake Reinecke, 20 Hylton Gibson, 21 Robert Blake, 22 Francois Swart

Coaches: Clinton van Rensburg, Rod Labuschagne

Date: 8 June 2013
Venue: Diocesan College (Bishops)
1st XV kick-off: 11.30
Television: Live on SuperSport 6 (206)
Expected weather conditions: 70% chance of rain with a high of 14°C, dropping to 10°C, and a 19km/h southwester.

Rugby Programme and Venues

The Piley Rees Field is named for the legendary schoolmaster and rugby coach who had been a master at Bishops from 1922 to 1967. He died in 1975 and the field was named after him in 1983.

The fields on the Top Field – to the right as you come down the Avenue – take their names from what they were next to, The Avenue Field was and still is next to the Avenue. The Range was next to the shooting range before it was moved to the far side of the Oaks. Parallel and next to the Range is the Cemetery because it was next to the cemetery behind St Thomas’s Church, where the Astroturf now is. When the cemetery was deconsecrated the field was used for rugby and called the Graveyard.

The Fields outside of the school in the dip next to the river were once a farm. JW Lutgens acquired the farm in 1799 and sop that low-lying part was called Lutgensvale.

Piley Rees

09.00: 3rd XV
10.15: 2nd XV
11.30: 1st XV

Avenue
09.00: 5th XV
10.15: 4th XV

Range
08.00: 6th XV
10.00: Under-15C

Cemetery
08.50: Under-15B
10.00: Under-15A

Sahara
08.50: Under-16B
10.00: Under-16A

Lutgensvale A
08.50: Under-14B
10.00: Under-14A

Lutgensvale B
08.50: Under-14D
10.00: Under-14C

Lutgensvale C
10.00: Under-16C

Results Down the Years

1911: Bishops won 18-0 & 25-0
1916: Bishops won 13-0 & drew 13-13
1917: Bishops won 5-3 & Rondebosch won 14-3
1918: Bishops won 16-0 & drew 0-0
1921: Bishops won 6-0
1923: Rondebosch won 9-8
1925: Rondebosch won 22-3
1926: Bishops won 10-9 & 6-3
1928: Bishops won 8-3 & 15-3
1929: Bishops won 7-3
1930: Bishops won 15-9 & 12-9
1931: Bishops won 11-3 & 16-9
1932: Bishops won 9-3 & 15-0
1933: Bishops won 11-6 & drew 3-3
1935: Bishops won 6-3
1936: Bishops won 49-0 & 37-3
1937: Drew 0-0 & Bishops won 6-3
1938: Rondebosch won 8-3 & Bishops won 16-6
1939: Rondebosch won 8-0
1940: Bishops won 25-3 & 11-8
1941: Bishops won 13-9 & Rondebosch won 8-3
1942: Bishops won 16-4 & 10-3
1943: Bishops won 21-0 & 31-3
1944: Rondebosch won 21-14 & 6-0
1945: Rondebosch won 6-0 & Bishops won 11-8
1946: Drew 3-3 & drew 3-3
1947: Bishops won 6-3 & Rondebosch won 9-6
1948: Rondebosch won 17-13 & Bishops won 13-6
1949: Bishops won 23-0 & 17-6
1950: Drew 14-14 & Rondebosch won 17-6
1951: Bishops won 8-0 & 17-0
1952: Rondebosch won 6-3 & drew 3-3
1953: Rondebosch won 6-3 & 13-3
1954: Rondebosch won 11-3
1955: Bishops won 9-6 & 8-6
1956: Bishops won 11-0 & Rondebosch won 9-6
1957: Rondebosch won 5-0 & drew 3-3
1958: Rondebosch won 8-0 & 8-6
1959: Bishops won 10-0 & Rondebosch won 3-0
1960: Drew 3-3 & Rondebosch won 12-3
1961: Rondebosch won 5-0 & 13-6
1962: Bishops won 3-0 & drew 6-6
1963: Rondebosch won 11-0 & 9-6
1964: Rondebosch won 13-0 & 13-0
1965: Drew 0-0 & drew 3-3
1966: Rondebosch won 14-3 & 12-3
1967: Drew 3-3 & Rondebosch won 20-0
1968: Rondebosch won 6-0 & drew 8-8
1969: Rondebosch won 11-6 & 25-3
1970: Rondebosch won 14-0 & 11-9
1971: Rondebosch won 8-3 & 24-3
1972: Rondebosch won 13-4 & 13-4
1973: Rondebosch won 13-12 & Bishops won 16-13
1974: Bishops won 9-3 & 18-4
1975: Bishops won 27-3 & 22-6
1976: Bishops won 14-13 & 22-12
1977: Rondebosch won 15-12 & 33-7
1978: Drew 6-6 & Bishops won 8-6
1979: Bishops won 9-0 & 24-0
1980: Rondebosch won 22-12 & Bishops won 10-3
1981: Bishops won 12-6 & 7-6
1982: Bishops won 18-6 & Rondebosch won 12-6
1983: Rondebosch won 18-10 & Bishops won 16-6
1984: Rondebosch won 7-0 & 15-11
1985: Bishops won 12-3 & Rondebosch won 16-9
1986: Bishops won 14-4 & 13-3
1987: Bishops won 12-7 & 15-3
1988: Bishops won 10-3 & 13-3
1989: Bishops won 58-10 & 7-4
1990: Bishops 14-7 & 9-0
1991: Bishops 12-9 & 21-9
1992: Bishops 34-3 & 27-6
1993: Bishops 28-10 & 19-5
1994: Rondebosch won 6-5 & 19-9
1995: Rondebosch won 7-6 & 11-10
1996: Rondebosch won 17-7 & 6-0
1997: Rondebosch won 18-0 & 31-11
1998: Bishops won 20-0 &15-7
1999: Rondebosch 16-15 & Bishops won 24-9
2000: Rondebosch 22-19 & 27-17
2001: Bishops won 17-0 & 18-0
2002: Bishops won 52-8 & 41-25
2003: Bishops won 18-5 & 78-19
2004: Bishops won 27-8 & Rondebosch won 26-22
2005: Bishops won 31-6 & 14-12
2006: Bishops won 71-3 & 75-22
2007: Bishops won 48-27 & 27-24
2008: Bishops won 20-8 & 47-15
2009: Rondebosch won 16-10 & Bishops won 10-6
2010: Bishops won 38-10 & the sides drew 19-19
2011: Rondebosch won 34-18 & Bishops won 37-12
2012: Bishops won 15-3 and Rondebosch won 19-11

Rondebosch play Bishops at Bishops in a Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools match on Saturday, and they will be wearing purple hose.

The Rondebosch 1st XV are doing this, not as a fashion statement, but to increase awareness of all forms of bullkying in support of the JAG Foundation’s BullyProof campaign which culminates with South Africa’s first National Bullying Awareness Day on 26 July 2013,

The JAGBullyProof purple socks can be purchased for R100 . Supporters receive a pair of socks, and another pair of purple socks is donated to a child at one of the underprivileged JAGBully-Proof schools.

To order a pair of JAGBullyProof socks or for more information: www.jagfoundation.org.za or tel: (021) 702 7880

RUGBY coaches have expressed mixed feelings over the Zimbabwe Under-18 Craven Week side that was selected over the weekend.

Some are urging the Zimbabwe Rugby Union to do more and improve the game at junior level.

The side is dominated by players from St George’s College, who have six, while Peterhouse and St John’s College each have five players.

Falcon and Midlands Christian College have two players each and Mutare’s Hillcrest College and Prince Edward have one each.

Some of the players that had made it into the provincial selection teams failed to make it for the final leg of the selection process held in Esigodini at Falcon College as they could not afford the camping fees.

While Falcon were hosting the trials, it had been agreed that players were to pay for their food and accommodation at the school.

It meant that those who were were talented enough to make it into the sides but didn’t have the financial support to foot the fees for camping and food, lost out.

Old Hararians and Gateway coach, Dereck Chiwara, feels that there are areas where the ZRU should intervene if there is to be a level playing ground in the selection of players for the national teams.

“Falcon did what they could to host the trials but it was not upon them to pay for the players’ food and that is where the ZRU and provincial boards should come in with the financial resources and support such initiatives all the way down to the most junior side.

“These games should benefit the kids and the financial background of the players should not have a (negative) impact on whether or not they are going to make it for the side,” said the former Harare Sports Club official.

While there have been questions over the dominance by mainly St George’s College and St John’s College players in this year’s squad, Chiwara believes there are a lot of factors that come in when a coach or selection panel are choosing a team for a tournament.

“Selection of players is not just about which schools have made it, but it also involves the coaches’ strategies, goals and his vision because the national team is not really where we are to teach basics, those should come from schools.

Marlow het Saterdag, 1 Junie, met elf spanne rugby gespeel teen Hoërskool Framesby. Die wedstryde het in Port Elizabeth plaasgevind. Marlow se spanne het goeie konstruktiewe rugby gespeel en wen sewe van die elf wedstryde.

In die hoofwedstryd klop Marlow vir Framesby 31-30. Die wedstryd is gekenmerk deur beide spanne wat mekaar behoorlik aangevat het op die verdediging en ook krag-rugby op die aanval.

Marlow het die eerste punte van die wedstryd aangeteken. Francois Swanepoel, buitesenter, gaan druk Marlow se eerste drie onder die pale. Peet Schoeman, binnesenter, het die lyn gebreek en vir Francois in die gaping gesit. Dirk van Wyk, heelagter, verdoel die drie.

Hierna het die tuisspan baie goeie rugby gespeel. Framesby het hul voorspelers met goeie aanvallende lyne rondom die afbreekpunte gebruik. Dit het gelei tot effektiewe momentum. Framesby druk twee verdoelde drieë en slaag ook met twee strafdoele wat Erns Stapelberg, losskakel, deur die pale jaag. Marlow het ook geleenthede gehad om punte aan te teken, maar kon nie afrond nie. Framesby se verdediging was rotsvas. Die haltydtelling kom te staan op 20-7 in Framesby se guns.

In die tweede helfte val albei spanne verwoed aan. Framesby gebruik hul kans eerste en druk nog ‘n verdoelde drie.

Die Wolramme het met elke geleentheid tussen voor-en agterspelers die bal wyer begin gedra. Hierdie spel het gelei tot een van die beste terugveg pogings deur ‘n skolespan vanjaar. Marlow druk hul tweede drie, deur skitter spel van hul agterlyn. Peet Schoeman breek weer die verdediging en soek aansluiting by Dirk van Wyk, heelagter, wat by die agterlyn aansluit. Chuiner van den Heever, linkervleuel, het ook werk kom soek aan die regterkant en bewerkstellig ‘n oop spasie vir Michael Botha. Michael Botha, regtervleuel, gaan druk Marlow se tweede drie.

Marlow val hierna weer aan met hul voorspelers en wen goeie gebiedsvoordeel. Marlow se skrumskakel, Hendrik Venter, duik oor die doellyn na ‘n goeie breekslag. Dirk van Wyk verdoel die drie.

Framesby het ook met tye die bal gedra, maar die besoekers het baie druk op hul geplaas. Erns Stapelberg, losskakel van Framesby, slaag met ‘n skitter skepdoel van sowat 55m.

Dit het die Wolramme nog meer vasberade gemaak en Peet Schoeman, wat ‘n skitter wedstryd beleef het, duik oor die doellyn vir Marlow se vierde drie. Peet het weer die verdediging van Framesby getroef en klop vyf spelers en rond self af. Dirk van Wyk slaag met ‘n moeilike verdoelskop en die telling kom te staan op 30-26 vir Framesby.

Marlow het in die laaste vyf minute van die wedstryd die bal effektief gedra en teen die sterk wind goeie rugby gespeel. Hierdie aanvallende spel deur die besoekers het gelei tot ‘n strafdoel wat Heini Brümm, losskakel, uitskop in die hoekie. Marlow se voorspelers wen die lynstaan, dryf effektief en druk die wendrie in die doodsnikke van die wedstryd. Marco Blom, haker, duik oor die doellyn.

Albei spanne moet gekomplimenteer word met kilpharde en skoon rugby. Marlow kan trots wees op die feit dat hulle vanaf 27-7 in die tweede helfte, teruggeveg het teen ‘n sterk wind. Welgedaan Wolramme