Waterkloof and Garsfontein set for a huge hockey showdown
Two of Pretoria’s top hockey-playing schools are set for a bumper weekend of action, covering two days, 9-10 May, when Hoërskool Garsfontein and Hoërskool Waterkloof go at it across all age groups, both girls and boys, in a home and away affair.
The action begins on Friday afternoon at Waterkloof with the u16B girls taking to the turf. They’ll be followed by the girls’ 3rd teams and the boys’ u16C sides as the matches serve to build up to the clashes of the A teams and the 1st sides.
At Garsfontein, Friday’s five build-up games include the girls’ u14B teams taking to the field first. They’ll be followed by the girls’ 2nd XIs, and, then, the u16A sides.
It will be a case of Hyundai Friday Nite Lights when both the girls’ and boys’ 1st XIs do battle at Garsfontein, with the girls’ clash starting at 18:05 and the boys playing at 19:20.
Catch the girls’ 1st XI match and the boys’ 1st XI game LIVE on SuperSport Schools, plus all the other Garsfontein vs Waterkloof games.
Garsfontein’s boys’ team, after recently finishing fourth at the Standard Bank Hibbert Shield against a high-quality field, will have drawn confidence from their excellent in Gqberha.
There is seldom much to separate the girls’ sides, which Garsies’ coach Charlene Jonsson acknowledged: “We have tightly contested matches each year,” she said. “The first-team girls drew 0-0 last year in this same fixture, and we have not played each other this year yet,” she told SuperSport School Plus.
Her team is ready for the clash, Jonsson added: “Preparations are going well. We are hitting our full in-season stride after all the tournaments are done for this phase of the year, and the focus shifts to our league matches and derbies.
“We keep focusing on getting one percent better each week,” she concluded.
FIXTURES
9 May at Garsfontein
15:00 – u14B girls
15:50 – 2nd girls
16:50 – u16A girls
18:05 – 1st girls
19:20 – 1st boys
9 May at Waterkloof
14:30 – u16B girls
15:20 – 3rd girls
16:10 – u16C boys
10 May at Garsfontein
07:45 – u15A girls
08:45 – u14A girls
09:45 – u14A boys
11:00 – u16A boys
12:15 – 2nd boys
13:15 – 3rd boys
10 May at Waterkloof
07:30 – u15B girls
08:20 – u14C girls
09:10 – u16C girls
10:00 – u16B boys
10:50 – u14B boys
