Eastern Cape’s big three continue to dominate
Collegiate Girls’ High School, Pearson High School, and DSG Makhanda continued their dominance of Eastern Cape hockey on the weekend.
The three sides, who are undeniably the standout teams in the province, picked up convincing wins against their provincial opposition and they did it while playing entertaining hockey.
Coach Michael Abrahams’ Collegiate side took to the turf on Saturday morning to face Kingswood College.
The hosts, who defeated Rhenish Girls’ School to win the All Girls Festival earlier this month, were high in confidence after beating Union High School 9-0 a week ago.
Out of the three teams, Collegiate has been up there in terms of accuracy, finding the goal with relative ease, and remaining rock solid at the back.
They continued their fine form, outplaying Kingswood in almost all facets of the game to seal a comfortable 4-0 victory.
Kerrin Gillies, who has starred for Collegiate this season, scored twice before Casey Groblaar and Kate Brennen struck to seal the win.
Another side that won big on the weekend was DSG Makhanda, who hosted Queenstown Girls’ High and Hudson Park High School.
It was a momentous occasion for coach Geowynne Gamiet and his players as they celebrated captain Abigail Holderness reaching her 100th first-team match for the school.
Playing in front of her schoolmates and parents, Holderness rose to the occasion and marked it by netting twice against the Komani side, while her sister, Lucy, also made it onto the score sheet.
They were joined by Lauren Managé and Miké Holder, who helped DSG seal a dominant 5-2 win.
Straight after that match, DSG had a couple of hours to rest before taking on East London’s Hudson Park. Hudson, led by coach Jerry Snyman, was coming off a 0-5 loss to Pearson the previous night, and matters didn’t get any easier for them.
Skipper Holderness fired in another brace before Anna Olivier matched her contribution. Strikes by Emily Walker, Jessica Stevens, and Jocelyn Appel completed a 7-1 drubbing for the home side.
Pearson, after going down 1-2 against DSG a week ago, had Lisa de Villiers score a hat-trick and Chanelle Venter chip in with a brace in their Friday night win over Hudson Park. It was a calm and well-executed victory for coach Anton Peltenburg‘s side.
Clarendon High School for Girls romped to a 7-0 win over Cambridge High School behind four goals from Caroline Kretzmann. Captain Cara Knott scored twice and Kate Booyens brought the total to seven.
In Gqeberha, Woodridge College recorded a tight 1-0 victory over Alexander Road High School.
RESULTS
DSG Makhanda 5-2 Queenstown Girls’ High
Clarendon 7-0 Cambridge High School
DSG Makhanda 7-1 Hudson Park
Woodridge College 1-0 Alexander Road High School
Collegiate Girls’ High 4-0 Kingswood College
Pearson High 5-0 Hudson Park
