ISSF Day One – KwaZulu-Natal sides enjoy fruitful outings
Durban Girls’ College (DGC), Epworth School, and Our Lady of Fatima were unbeaten on Friday, the first day of the Independent Schools Sports Festival (ISSF), being hosted by DGC.
The showpiece served up a smorgasbord of results, from blowouts to tightly contested draws.
Fifteen teams are participating in the event, namely: DGC, Our Lady of Fatima, Roedean School, St Stithians College, Maris Stella, St Mary’s Waverley, St Anne’s Diocesan College, St Marys DSG, Kloof, St Teresa’s School, Epworth School, Brescia House, Kingsmead College, St Andrew’s School for Girls, St John’s DSG, and St Dominic’s Catholic School.
The teams completed 21 matches, played at DGC and Northwood, on the first day.
DGC got the festival underway in style, pummelling Teresa’s 7-0. That was the biggest margin of victory on the day.
The closest another team came to matching that was when Our Lady of Fatima beat Brescia House 5-0. Epworth matched that score when they outplayed St Teresa’s.
DGC wrapped up their day one assignments with a 1-0 win over Kingsmead later in the afternoon.
Their KwaZulu-Natal neighbours, Epworth, recorded three wins in three outings. Their 5-0 victory over St Teresa’s was sandwiched between a 4-1 drubbing of Brescia House and a 2-0 win over Kingsmead.
Like Epworth, Our Lady of Fatima went three from three. Coach Matthew Smith’s charges gave their supporters something to cheer and didn’t concede a single goal. They handed Brescia House a 5-0 defeat, edged past Kingsmead 1-0, and outclassed Roedean 3-0.
While they didn’t lose a single match, St Mary’s DSG, Kloof, found goals hard to come by. They played out a 0-0 stalemate with their highveld namesakes, St Mary’s Waverley, won 2-1 over Roedean, and then recorded another 0-0 draw, this time with St Dominic’s.
Coach Morne Odendaal’s St Anne’s played four matches and acquitted themselves well. However, their record was not unblemished. They scored wins over St Dominic’s, Roedean, and St Andrew’s School for Girls but came out on the wrong end of the result against St Mary’s Waverley.
The Johannesburg school will be keen to build on their victory over St Anne’s when they run out to face DGC at 08:00 on Saturday morning.
Epworth will be out to preserve their unbeaten record when they face St Stithians, also at 08:00, at Northwood.
The festival ends later on Saturday.
RESULTS
St Mary’s DSG Kloof 0-0 St Mary’s Waverley
Epworth 4-1 Brescia House
St Anne’s 1-0 St Dominic’s
St Mary’s DSG Kloof 2-1 Roedean
Maris Stella 0-0 St Teresa’s
DGC 1-0 Kingsmead
St John’s DSG 1-0 St Stithians
St Anne’s 2-0 Roedean
DGC 7-0 St Teresa’s
Our Lady of Fatima 5-0 Brescia House
St Andrew’s School for Girls 0-0 St John’s DSG
St Dominic’s 0-0 St Mary’s DSG Kloof
Epworth 5-0 St Teresa’s
Our Lady of Fatima 1-0 Kingsmead
Maris Stella 2-1 Brescia House
St Anne’s 2-0 St Andrew’s School
Epworth School 2-0 Kingsmead
St Dominic’s 0-0 St John’s DSG
St Mary’s Waverley 2-1 St Anne’s
St Stithians 1-0 Maris Stella
Our Lady of Fatima 3-0 Roedean
