Rhenish dominates at Synsport Greg Beling Festival
A smattering of games on Thursday set the table for a full menu of exciting girls’ hockey at the Synsport Greg Beling Hockey Festival on Friday, in East London.
When the dust had settled on a day filled with entertaining action, Rhenish Girls’ High School, the winners of the 2024 Fairtree Super 12 title, who began their year with a spotless record at the Greg Beling Festival, had again made their mark.
Last year, it was a 5-1 win over Eunice that caught that eye. This time, Rhenish overpowered Eunice’s Bloemfontein rivals, Oranje, 3-0.
After recently making a remarkable 150th appearance for the Rhenish 1st XI, Leah du Plessis led the way by putting them in front with a superb field goal in the first chukka.
With most of their team of last year returning, big things are expected of the Stellenbosch girls and they went big in their first outing, overrunning Voortrekker, of Bethlehem, 6-0.
Those wins followed up a 4-0 defeat of Clarendon High School for Girls on Thursday, where goals from Frankie Henn, Emma Lurie, Ruby Cilliers, and Grace Hobbs, set them up for two outstanding wins on Friday.
The action began early in the morning with Hudson Park High School taking on Paarl Vallei at Clarendon, and it was the Western Cape school that enjoyed the better of the clash, coming away with a convincing 4-0 victory.
At Selborne, Hoёrskool Sasolburg met Queenstown Girls’ High School (GHS). In a tight contest, Sasolburg claimed a narrow 2-1 win.
Union High, from Graaff-Reinet, after romping to an 8-1 win over Cambridge High on Thursday, was involved in a back-and-forth tussle with GHS on Friday. The sides produced six goals between them but had to settle for a 3-3 draw.
In other outings, Eunice High School came out on top against Parel Vallei, scoring a 3-1 victory, St Anne’s Diocesan College edged out Gqeberha’s Pearson High School 1-0, and Kingsridge shared 10 goals with Westering in a thrilling 5-5 draw.
RESULTS
Friday, 21 March
Hudson Park 0-4 Parel Vallei
Queenstown GHS 1-2 Sasolburg
Kingsridge 6-1 Cradock
Rhenish 6-0 Voortrekker
Duineveld 3-1 Lilyfontein
Merrifield 3-0 Montana
Stirling 3-0 Framesby
Cambridge 2-0 Hoër Volkskool Graaff-Reinet
Kingswood College 0-1 Witteberg
Kingsridge 5-5 Westering
Pearson 5-1 Hoërskool Middelburg
Hudson Park 0-5 Collegiate
Queenstown GHS 3-3 Union High
Lilyfontein 2-1 Brandwag
Framesby 0-2 Duineveld
St Anne’s 5-0 Voortrekker
Eunice 3-1 Parel Vallei
Cambridge 1-0 Curro Waterstone
Merrifield 3-0 Alexander Road
Clarendon 2-0 Glenwood House
Stirling 1-1 Woodridge
Pearson 0-1 St Anne’s
Rhenish 3-0 Oranje
