Reddam Bedfordview and Roedean into Saints final
Reddam House Bedfordview upset St Stithians Girls College in the semifinals to secure their place against Roedean School in Sunday’s final of the Saints Invitational Water Polo Tournament.
In a very tight contest, the Reddam girls snatched a 6-5 win over the home team.
Before that loss, St Stithians was on a roll and unbeaten in the tournament. That defeat, though, has left them in the bronze medal match against last year’s champion, Herschel Girls School.
Reddam’s record wasn’t quite perfect in the group stage, but they were undefeated.
They had to settle for a 7-7 draw against Clarendon High School for Girls on Friday, but they comfortably won their other games, beating St Anne’s Diocesan College 8-5, Pearson High 4-0, and Beaulieu College 14-5. Then, in the quarterfinals, they handed Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) Makhanda a 4-1 defeat.
Roedean’s record remained clean but imperfect, too. On Saturday, they scored an 8-4 win over St Anne’s in the quarter-finals and a narrow 4-3 victory over Herschel in the semi-finals.
Roedean, from Parktown, started the tournament like a house on fire, charging to a 10-1 win over Kingsmead College on Thursday before dealing St Mary’s Waverley a 10-4 loss. On Friday, they thrashed the struggling Rand Park 22-0, only to be held to a 4-4 draw by DSG Makhanda.
Sunday’s final will be played in the Saints Olympic pool at 11:30.
In other games, DSG Makhanda faces Durban Girls’ College (DGC) in the fifth-place playoff following a hard-fought 8-6 victory over St Dominic’s Catholic School for Girls. DGC, unbeaten after the opening two days, fell in the quarterfinals, going down 8-10 to Herschel.
St Mary’s takes on St Anne’s for seventh, while Reddam House Constantia, beaten by DGC on the opening day, went down 6-8 to St Mary’s Waverley, and will play St Dominic’s for ninth place.
There was some joy for Rand Park High, meanwhile, as they netted their first goals of the tournament in a 3-12 loss to Zimbabwe’s Chisipite Senior School.
RESULTS
Playoffs
DSG 8-6 St Dominic’s
Reddam Constantia 6-8 St Mary’s Waverley
St Anne’s 14-6 Kingswood
Herschel 7-2 Clarendon
Rand Park 0-15 Collegiate
Kingsmead 4-3 St Peter’s
Beaulieu College 9-4 Chisipite
Pearson 4-6 Crawford Lonehill
Rand Park 3-12 Chisipite
St Peter’s 4-5 Pearson
Kingswood 5-7 St Dominic’s
Clarendon 5-6 Reddam Constantia
Beaulieu 3-7 Collegiate
Kingsmead 6-3 Crawford Lonehill
Herschel 3-4 Roedean
DGC 11-7 St Anne’s.
Quarterfinals
Roedean 8-4 St Anne’s
Herschel 10-8 DGC
DSG 1-4 Reddam Bedfordview
St Stithians 8-3 St Mary’s Waverley
Semifinals
Herschel 3-4 Roedean
St Stithians 5-6 Reddam Bedfordview
