KZN’s top teams ready for an action-filled Saturday

Durban Girls College, St Mary’s DSG (Kloof), St Anne’s, and St John’s DSG are among the teams that will take to the astro on an action-filled Saturday that promises high-quality hockey action.

While the matches will add valuable points to their league standings, most teams will use the encounters to assess their readiness for the upcoming St Anne’s Cup, which most of them marked down as a tournament they intend to win. The first of those is DGC.

Chardinay Penniston’s team is enjoying a good run. They are still unbeaten since their defeat to St Mary’s Waverley at the St Mary’s Waverley Festival, which they went on to win. Lifting the St Anne’s trophy will hand them their second title of the season.

This week, DGC showed why they have been on such a winning streak by scoring seven goals against Thomas More and Maris Stella. Neither team was able to breach the well-oiled DGC defence. One of Penniston’s team’s ambitions for the season is to lift the title at the St Anne’s Cup, and a win against Epworth will embolden them as they prepare for the tournament.

St Mary’s celebrated the return of their captain, Georgia Pollock, with a 4 – 1 against Our Lady Fatima. Pollock has been on the sidelines for an extended period after she suffered an injury during their preseason tour trip to the Netherlands. Against Our Lady Fatima, Elizabeth Anderson led the scoring with a brace, then Alex Bowyer and Georgia Short scored a goal each.

Carla Ann Mackay’s charges will be looking to make it two wins in four days when they take on Danville. A win against Danville will give them a boost as they look forward to the St Anne’s Cup. Like DGC, St Mary’s has their scope fixed on winning the tournament.

However, before St Anne’s can train their attention to the upcoming tournament they will be hosting, they have to contend with a familiar foe. They go up against St John’s in a great traditional Inlands derby. The two sides are so competitive that it is impossible to separate them going by their last three results. St Anne’s and St John’s have won one match each and drew the third. The winners of tomorrow’s encounter will not only carry victory with them but also bragging rights.

“They have a great hockey program, and we are expecting a good contest,” St Anne’s Morne Odendaal shared.

Fixtures:

St Mary’s vs Danville, DGC vs Epworth, St John’s vs St Anne’s, Witteberg vs Goudveld

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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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