It’s all systems go for the St Anne’s Cup

St Anne’s Diocesan College will open its gates to welcome 12 of the country’s most exciting hockey teams for the third instalment of the St Anne’s Cup, which runs from 22 to 24 May.

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The showpiece, which took flight in 2024, crowned different winners in its two previous iterations.

St Mary’s DSG Kloof was the inaugural champion and will be on the hunt for a second title. They’ve been in the thick of the title hunt in other tournaments this season, but should they win, it would be their first piece of silverware in 2026.

Last year’s winner, Die Hoerskool Menlopark, was unable to make the trip to the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, which increases the probability of a new champion being crowned for the third consecutive year.

Similar to previous years, the teams have been divided into four groups of three.

C&N Sekondêre Meisieskool Oranje, who are on a hot streak, arrive at St Anne’s hunting for their third title of 2026 after lifting the St Mary’s Waverley Festival and All Girls Hockey Festival trophies. They’ll be favoured to go all the way, but their first assignment will be to fight off the challenges of St Stithians College and Epworth School in Pool A.

St Mary’s DSG Kloof headlines Pool B, where they are joined by The Wykeham Collegiate (TWC) and Hoërskool Noordheuwel.

The hosts, St Anne’s, will have their sights set on lifting the title on home soil, but they will have their work cut out for them in Pool C, where they face Ashton International College and Eunice High.

Pool D features two previous finalists, Durban Girls College (DGC), who lost in 2024’s final to St Mary’s DSG Kloof, and Our Lady of Fatima, who lost to Menlopark in last year’s title game. Both sides will be keen to take it one step further. They’re joined in Pool D by Helpmekaar Kollege.

The two former finalists, DGC and Our Lady of Fatima, will get the event underway at 08:00 on Friday. St Anne’s and Eunice, one of the perennial favourites, will close out the day’s play with a fixture that starts at 19:15.

FIXTURES

08:00 – DGC vs Our Lady of Fatima, 09:15 – Noordheuwel vs TWC, 10:30 – Oranje vs Epworth, 11:45 – St Anne’s vs Ashton, 11:45 – DGC vs Helpmekaar, 13:00 – St Mary’s vs Noordheuwel, 14:15 – Oranje vs St Stithians, 15:30 – Helpmekaar vs Our Lady of Fatima, 15:30 – Ashton vs Eunice, 16:45 – St Mary’s vs TWC, 18:00 – St Stithians vs Epworth, 19:15 – St Anne’s vs Eunice

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CS Chiwanza is a former poet and now a full-time storyteller of Southern African sports. He jokes that those who can't do a thing well enough either teach or write. He knows the right way to hold a cricket bat and the right grip for the wobbleball, but can't do either well enough to be picked for a good team. So he writes. However, he mastered the best dart grip and spends hours stat-padding against his wife and kids.

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