Michaelhouse unveils new hockey tournament

Ten of the country’s top hockey-playing schoolboys’ teams will converge at Michaelhouse for the inaugural Michaelhouse Hockey Tournament, which starts on Thursday, 23 April, and ends with the final on Sunday, 27 April.

The matches will be played on the Punchbowl and Aitkens Astros. Running concurrently with the 1st team event will be an u16 tournament.

The 10 1st XIs have been divided into two pools of five teams. The hosts, Michaelhouse, are in Pool A, along with Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies), St Andrew’s College, Northwood, and St Charles College. Pool B features Hilton College, Maritzburg College, Paarl Boys’ High, Kearsney College, and Reddam House Constantia.

“Looking at this inaugural tournament, you really see the DNA of Michaelhouse hockey coming together. It’s built on that fundamental code where the game is always about more than the scoreboard,” Grant von Meyer, the Tournament Director, said in a press release.

The event is built around the notion of instilling good values in the players, making sure that they carry themselves in the right manner, and also competitiveness,” Von Meyer said.

“When you blend those two philosophies, that core humility with a real hunger to compete, that’s where the magic happens,” he added, “so, as we welcome visiting teams, the message is simple: give it everything you’ve got on the turf, but make sure you’re walking off it as friends. That’s what hockey here is all about.”

A couple of u16 matches will set the ball rolling on Thursday, with St Charles College and Northwood, and Clifton and Maritzburg College meeting at 13:30. Hilton College and Maritzburg College face off in the first of the 1st XI games at 15:00.

The group matches continue on Friday and Saturday, before the knockout stages that will lead to the final.

FIXTURES

Thursday

15:00 – Hilton vs Maritzburg College, 16:30 – Michaelhouse vs Affies, 16:30 – Paarl Boys’ High vs Kearsney, 18:00 – St Andrew’s College vs Northwood

Friday

10:00 – Michaelhouse vs Northwood, 10:00 – Affies vs St Charles College, 11:30 – Maritzburg College vs Reddam Constantia, 11:30 – Hilton vs Kearsney, 17:30 – Kearsney vs Reddam Constantia, 17:30 – Northwood vs St Charles College, 19:00 – Michaelhouse vs St Andrew’s College, 19:00 – Hilton vs Paarl Boys’ High.

Saturday

08:30 – Affies vs St Andrew’s College, 08:30 – Maritzburg College vs Paarl Boys’ High, 11:00 – Michaelhouse vs St Andrew’s College, 11:30 – Hilton vs Reddam Constantia, 16:00 – Maritzburg College vs Kearsney, 16:00 – Affies vs Northwood, 17:30 – Paarl Boys’ High vs Reddam Constantia, 17:30 – St Andrew’s College vs St Charles College.

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