Candies leave St John’s feeling blue

Pretoria Boys’ High cooked up a storm on Burger Field, making light work of St John’s College and winning by a 34-point margin, the final score sitting at 39-5 to the visitors.

The Candies showed a dominant display of offensive play, cutting through The Blues defence like a hot knife through butter. The team scored seven tries amongst themselves, making sure that there was no opportunity for the home side to break into the match.

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By the halfway mark, the score was already sitting at 24-0, with the away team putting themselves in a strong position, displaying their hunger for points and a much-needed win.

St John’s College found solace in creating one scoring opportunity, through an overlap which was put away excellently by winger Jacob Smith and thus avoiding a potential whitewash.

Winger Ntasko Ndlovu, helped himself to two tries during the game, and would have been eyeing the try line for a potential hat-trick and looked dangerous for The Candies.

The Blues would have backed their defences going into the match, having shown throughout the season they are willing to put up a fight, if it means sacrificing flashy play. Unfortunately, this was not the case and nor was it enough to slow down the barrage of attacks thrown their way from the opposition.

Potentiall,y the score could have read a lot more than it did, with several placement kicks getting missed by the school from Pretoria. The side would feel that it has been one element of their play which has not quite been on par with some of the other teams this year.

Pretoria Boys’ High School will now need to wait a few weeks until their next fixture, with exams and a school holiday looming.

The last part of the season sees the school face up against long-standing rivals King Edward VII for the return fixture and Affies, both highly competitive teams this year.

How will the school on the hill fare in the final half of the season? Only time will tell.

Scorers:

Pretoria Boys’ High 39 (24) – Tries: Kitso Mokoena, Keethan Fitz, Ntsako Ndhlovu (2), Stephen Adams, Joshua Naude, Christopher Smith. Conversions: Tebogo Nchabaleng, Kyle Hezlett. St John’s College 5 (0) – Try: Jacob Smith.

Teams:

St John’s College: 15 Bryson Walker, 14 Bradley Chabalala, 13 Reece Watson, 12 Nkosi Sibanda (vice-captain), 11 Jacob Smith, 10 Joe Macrobert, 9 Thomas Kurger, 8 Yannis Patu, 7 Matt MacMaster (captain), 6 Grant Barnes, 5 Thomas Archer, 4 Dominic Kamangu, 3 Vincent Miles, 2 Kyle Watson, 1 Finlay Holden.

Pretoria Boys’ High: 15 Kyle Hezlett, 14 Tebogo Nchabaleng, 13 Christoper Smith, 12 Rickus Wessels, 11 Ntsako Ndlovu, 10 Keethan Fritz, 9 Joshua Naude (vice-captain), 8 Seth Venter, 7 Stephen Adams, 6 Etienne du Preez, 5 Tsephpiso Shikhibana, 4 Randy Muzungu, 3 Ofentse Moeng, 2 Shaun Schurmann (captain) 1 Kitso Mokoena.

Results:

St John’s College vs Pretoria Boys’ High School

u19A: Pretoria Boys’ High School 39, St John’s College 5
u19B: Pretoria Boys’ High School 14, St John’s College 9
u16A: Pretoria Boys’ High School 11, St John’s College 18
u15A: Pretoria Boys’ High School 15, St John’s College 19
u14A: Pretoria Boys’ High School 15, St John’s College 19