Grey and Northwood remain unbeaten at u18 Guschkie Top Schools
The tournament’s host, Grey College, and KZN’s Northwood triumphed in the quarterfinals of the u18 Guschkie Top Schools Tournament on Friday to keep their records clean.
Last year, they met in the final, with Northwood winning 2-0.
The tournament kicked off on Thursday with a double-header, with Worcester Gim facing DF Malan in a meeting of Western Cape rivals, while Northwood’s Knights faced St Andrew’s School.
Gimmies and DF Malan were involved in a titanic struggle, which was settled only seconds from the final whistle when DF Malan scored the winning goal to capture a 3-2 victory.
Meanwhile, Northwood showed off their intentions to defend their title when they rolled to a 4-0 victory over St Andrew’s. They repeated that score later in the day in a victory over DF Malan.
On Friday, they continued their free scoring ways, slotting four times against Somerset College, who did, at least, manage to pierce the Northwood defence once.
Grey College has impressed. They opened their challenge with a 4-0 romp against Hoërskool Eldoraigne 4-0.
Then, on Friday they brushed aside Menlopark, winning 3-0, thanks to goals from Matthias Visser, Waldo Konig, and MJ Bam.
In their second outing of the day, they took on their Bloemfontein rivals, St Andrew’s. After a tight opening chukka, the game was broken open in the second quarter when Grey struck two brilliant field goals through Ayanda Ngxaki and Wian du Plooy. Those were the only goals of the contest.
Grey College coach Wayne Coetzee felt his team could have performed much better: “We were not at our best, but we will take the result as we had different goal scorers on the sheet, which will give them confidence going forward,” he said.
The semi-finals will see Grey take on DF Malan, who handed Saints a 0-1 defeat later in the day.
RESULTS
Thursday
Worcester Gimnasium 2-3 DF Malan
Northwood 4-0 Saints
Grey College 4-0 Eldoraigne
Somerset College 1-2 Menlopark
Saints 1-3 Worcester Gimnasium
DF Malan 0-4 Northwood
Friday
Grey College 3-0 Menlopark
St Andrew’s School 0-1 DF Malan
Somerset College 2-3 Eldoraigne
St Andrew’s School 0-2 Grey College
Northwood 4-1 Somerset College
DF Malan 3-2 Eldoraigne
Worcester Gimnasium (3) 1-1 (1) Menlopark
